Offered By	Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Faculty of Law, ANU Medical School, Faculty of Asian Studies, Canberra School of Art, Faculty of Science, and Faculty of Economics and Commerce
Academic Contact	Mr Anthony Turner, BA(HONS)UNE, DipEd London, DipDramaticArt London

Please note: This major has been replaced by the [Drama Major|ARTSMDRMA].  Only students already registered in this major may undertake it.

Drama courses focus on the examination of changing theatrical conventions that relate to the performance of dramatic texts. Using a combined theoretical and practical approach, the courses concentrate on European, American, British and Australian drama/theatre. Play texts are studied as potential performance texts. While the historical performance conventions of staging and acting are examined, students also study how to apply modern acting, directing and design conventions to plays written in earlier periods. A variety of approaches to acting, directing and design are explored. Practical workshops help to clarify how these conventions work in the theatre.

Drama cooperates closely with English and Film Studies and students will find these majors highly complementary.

Requirements

Students are required to submit written work by the due dates, to attend all lectures, workshops and tutorial classes, and to present any required tutorial and workshop exercises. Students are expected to possess copies of the prescribed texts.

The requirements for the major are a minimum of 42 units consisting of two first year core courses, Page to Stage I DRAM1005 and Introduction to the Western Theatrical Tradition DRAM1006, plus a minimum of five later-year courses to the value of 30 units from those named in LIST A in the Undergraduate Handbook.

Assessment

Methods of assessment will be discussed with students enrolled in each course before they are finalised.

For information on Honours in Drama click here.

The information published on the Study at ANU 2009 website applies to the 2009 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2008 website.