Drama

ATAR Category A - 2 Units

Prerequisites: NIL

Exclusions: NIL

Course Description:

The Drama Course is designed for students to experience, understand, enjoy and value drama as a social, collaborative and creative art form and as an expression of culture through making, performing and critically studying drama and theatre.

This is achieved by developing in students: a knowledge and understanding of dramatic forms and techniques, an ability to make drama through participation (including collaboration with others), the ability to improvise and play build (as well as to actually write scripts), an understanding of the place and function of drama in societies past and present, and an appreciation that drama is a community activity, a profession and an industry.

External Assessment:

Written Examination – 1 ½ hour

Practical Examination – Group Performance Individual Major Project

Employment / University Opportunities:

Students who have studied Creative Arts can seek careers where collaboration, creative problem solving and innovation are integral. For example; CEO, Human Resource / Business Manager, Lawyer, Journalist, Psychologist, Politician, Historian, Teacher, Actor, Producer, Arts Administrator, Musician, Event Manager.