Offered By	ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Academic Contact	Ms Cate Clelland

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.

 

 

FURTHER INFORMATION:

All courses are semester-long. Later-year courses are most commonly offered in alternate years.

All courses are offered subject to staff availability and sufficient enrolments.

Lectures are normally taped.

It is not possible to give full details of courses or full lists of recommended reading in the entries in this Handbook. Prospective students are encouraged to approach the School of Humanities, for a copy of the Drama brochure. In addition, the Coordinators responsible for each course will be pleased to provide further information. 

 

For information on Honours in Drama click here.

The information published on the Study at ANU 2011 website applies to the 2011 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2010 website.