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Theatre Major
UAC Code: 754609
A major study in Theatre major offers a flexible program covering a wide range of areas in theatre and performance. Students will be able to undertake studies that include:
• Performance skills (Acting, Singing, Movement and Voice)
• Stagecraft
• Introduction to lighting and sound design
• Stage management
• Producing live performance
• Dramaturgy, history and theory
The course is primarily practice-based and offers opportunities to work with professional artists on the creation of contemporary theatre works. The course also emphasises theory and history as essential to the development of informed and self reliant practitioners.
In first year, students acquire competencies in performance skills and stagecraft with an emphasis on collaboration and ensemble practice. In second and third year, students can select a range of Theatre Studios that cover a diverse range of areas as well as study contemporary theatre history and theory. The third year culminates in a major project where students undertake a major creative work.
A Bachelor of Performance with majors in Acting, Performance-making and Technical Theatre is also offered by the Faculty of Law, Humanities and Arts.
Students who complete the first year of the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Theatre) to a high performance standard may be permitted to transfer into the Bachelor of Performance.
Program of Study
Subjects |
Session |
Credit Points | |
Core BCA Subjects: | |||
CACS101 |
Contemporary Creative Practice |
Autumn |
6 |
CACS102 |
Critical Frameworks in Creative Practice |
Spring |
6 |
CACS301 |
Professional Practice |
Spring/Summer |
6 |
Major Study: | |||
CAPF101 |
Performance Skills 1: Acting, Movement, Singing, Voice |
Autumn |
6 |
CAPF111 |
Stagecraft 1 |
Autumn |
6 |
CAPF102 |
Performance Skills 2: Acting, Movement, Singing, Voice |
Spring |
6 |
CAPF112 |
Stagecraft 2 |
Spring |
6 |
CAPF203 |
Generative Performance Skills 1 |
Spring |
6 |
CAPF221 |
Theatre Studio: Performance Workshop |
Autumn |
6 |
CAPF222 |
Theatre Studio: Methodologies |
Autumn |
6 |
CAPF231 |
Contemporary Theatre and Text |
Autumn |
6 |
CAPF232 |
Contemporary Australian Theatre and its Context |
Spring |
6 |
CAPF303 |
Generative Performance Skills 2 |
Autumn |
6 |
CAPF390 |
Major Performance Production |
Spring |
12 |
One of the following 300 level BCA Theory subjects: | |||
Contemporary Theory and the Practising Writer |
Autumn |
6 | |
New Media and Visual Communications Theory |
Autumn |
6 | |
Theory and Practice of Theatre and Performance in the 20th and 21st Century |
Autumn |
6 | |
Contemporary Artworlds |
Autumn |
6 | |
Advanced Graphic Design and Visual Communications Theory |
Spring |
6 | |
Political Dramaturgy |
Spring |
6 | |
Globalisation and Contemporary Art |
Spring |
6 | |
Curatorial Practices |
Spring |
6 | |
Other Information
Further information is available at http://coursefinder.uow.edu.au/ or email: Creative Arts - fca_enquiries@uow.edu.au