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Dramatic Texts & Empowering Youth (EDUC20084)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5Not available in 2024
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How can you express yourself through drama to explore what’s important to youth, and the world, today? This subject will explore how young people can be empowered through the interpretation and creation of plays and performances. Students will explore techniques and processes from a range of styles which emphasise a practical and hands-on approach, including a site visit. Students will explore different youth cultures, identities, and approaches to social justice through performance, experimenting with acting, directing, writing, slam poetry, design (sound, lighting, costumes, props) and digital media. Students do not need existing experience in drama, and the creative and presentational skills developed within this subject can be adapted to a range of professions including media and communications, education, law and business, and social justice.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Dramatize a performance for a youth audience
- Analyse approaches to creating and staging dramatic texts for youth empowerment
- Demonstrate performance making skills through the study and exploration of dramatic texts for youth empowerment
- Articulate personal understandings of the teaching and staging of dramatic texts utilised in a range of community and learning contexts
- Demonstrate skills as a theatre researcher.
Generic skills
This subject will assist students to develop the following transferable skills:
- Presenting ideas in oral, written, digital and creative forms
- Goal setting, time management and responsiveness to deadlines
- Collaborative and teamwork skills through working with other students.
Last updated: 8 November 2024