Major - BPerf - Acting and Performance-making

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Major Studies - Acting and Performance-Making

Students that are enrolled in the Major Study - Acting and Performance-Making take common subjects in the first two sessions of the course. Following this, students will be streamed into either Acting or Performance-making. Students who fail to meet the required performance standard for either stream will transfer to the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Theatre).

The Acting major is almost entirely prescribed, with the only elective options being 12credit points in first year.

The Performance-making major is more flexible and students are required to take 30 credit points of elective subjects.

While Directing for Theatre is not specified in the Bachelor of Performance, students may be given the option to pursue directing as part of the Performance-making major. The option to study direction is by invitation only.

Program of Study for the Acting Major


Subjects		Session	Credit points

100 level
CACS101	Contemporary Creative Practice	Autumn	6
CAPF101	Performance Skills 1: Acting, Movement, Singing, Voice	Autumn	6
CAPF111	Stagecraft 1	Autumn	6
CACS102	Critical Frameworks in Creative Practice	Spring	6
CAPF102	Performance Skills 2: Acting, Movement, Singing, Voice	Spring	6
CAPF112	Stagecraft 2	Spring	6

Plus 12cp of electives at 100, 200 or 300 level

200 level
CAPF201	Performance Skills 3: Acting, Movement, Singing, Voice	Autumn	6
CAPF211	Performance Production 1	Autumn	6
CAPF215	Scene-work 1 - Engaging with Text	Autumn	6
CAPF231	Contemporary Theatre and Text	Autumn	6
CAPF202	Performance Skills 4 - Acting, Movement, Singing, Voice	Spring	6
CAPF212	Performance Production 2	Spring	6
CAPF216	Scene-work 2 - Form and Genre	Spring	6
CAPF232	Contemporary Australian Theatre and its Context	Spring	6

300 Level
CAPF301	Performance Skills 5 - Acting, Movement, Singing, Voice	Autumn	6
CAPF311	Performance Production 3	Autumn	6
CAPF315	Scene-work 3	Autumn	6
CAPF316	Scene-work 4 - Graduate Showcase	Spring	6
CAPF390	Major Performance Production	Spring	12
CACS301	Professional Practice	Spring Summer	6
Plus:
CAPF331	Theory and Practice of Theatre and Performance in the 20th and 21st Century	Autumn	6
or
CAPF333	Political Dramaturgy	Spring	6

Program of Study for the Performance-Making Major


Subjects		Session	Credit points

100 level
CACS101	Contemporary Creative Practice	Autumn	6
CAPF101	Performance Skills 1: Acting, Movement, Singing, Voice	Autumn	6
CAPF111	Stagecraft 1	Autumn	6
CACS102	Critical Frameworks in Creative Practice	Spring	6
CAPF102	Performance Skills 2: Acting, Movement, Singing, Voice	Spring	6
CAPF112	Stagecraft 2	Spring	6

200 level
CAPF215	Scene-work 1 - Engaging with Text	Autumn	6
CAPF221	Theatre Studio: Performance Workshop	Autumn	6
CAPF222	Theatre Studio: Methodologies	Autumn	6
CAPF231	Contemporary Theatre and Text	Autumn	6
CAPF203	Generative Performance Skills 1	Spring	6
CAPF212	Performance Production 2	Spring	6
CAPF232	Contemporary Australian Theatre and its Context	Spring	6

300 level
CAPF303	Generative Performance Skills 2	Autumn	6
CAPF311	Performance Production 3	Autumn	6
CAPF390	Major Performance Production	Spring	12
CACS301	Professional Practice	Spring Summer	6
Plus:
CAPF331	Theory and Practice of Theatre and Performance in the 20th and 21st Century	Autumn	6
or
CAPF333	Political Dramaturgy	Spring	6

And:
30cp of electives of which 6cp must be at 200 or 300 level