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Dramatic Texts & Empowering Youth (EDUC20084)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5Not available in 2024
Overview
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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: 27 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Group class presentation (20 minutes)
| Mid semester | 30% |
Group performance project (30 minutes)
| End of the teaching period | 40% |
Reflective journal
| During the examination period | 30% |
Attendance Hurdle requirement: A minimum of 80% attendance at, or engagement with, all sessions identified as contact hours (may include lectures, tutorials, seminars and workshops, both synchronous and asynchronous). | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Dates & times
Not available in 2024
Time commitment details
170 hours
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Last updated: 27 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There is no prescribed text for this subject. Readings will be posted on LMS.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Breadth Track Creativity, the Arts and Young People - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
- Links to additional information
Study Breadth in the Faculty of Education: https://education.unimelb.edu.au/study/breadth
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 27 April 2024