Drama
The study of Drama develops knowledge and understanding through exploration of performance and production elements. Dramatic works have the capacity to engage, inspire and enrich all students, excite the imagination, and encourage students to reach their creative and expressive potential. Drama builds confidence, empathy, understanding about human experience, and a sense of identity and belonging. Students develop self-management, problem solving, leadership and interpersonal skills. They learn to be resourceful, critical, and creative thinkers, and develop capacity to take risks. Students experience the challenge and pleasure that comes from the study of drama that can be transferred to a range of careers and situations.
The study of Drama develops knowledge and understanding through exploration of performance and production elements. Dramatic works have the capacity to engage, inspire and enrich all students, excite the imagination, and encourage students to reach their creative and expressive potential. Drama builds confidence, empathy, understanding about human experience, and a sense of identity and belonging. Students develop self-management, problem solving, leadership and interpersonal skills. They learn to be resourceful, critical, and creative thinkers, and develop capacity to take risks. Students experience the challenge and pleasure that comes from the study of drama that can be transferred to a range of careers and situations.
Students understand that theatre stems from traditions, that drama has changed over time and that dramatic works differ widely in different contexts. They learn that that drama exists in process, as much as in finished artistic products and understand the collaborative contribution of actors, directors, playwrights, designers, and technicians. Students work collaboratively, collectively, and independently, making and responding to dramatic works for a range of audiences.
Students develop transferable skills useful in any academic, professional, and vocational context, such as independence, collaboration, teamwork, and leadership. Students become highly skilled at working with others and communicating clearly to achieve joint enterprises. They develop skills as researchers and engage with theories and ideas critically and creatively. Students engage with technologies and become adept at pivoting to new technologies that help them achieve their goals. Students develop production skills and hone practices that present ideas and projects in ways that engage target audiences. They become empathetic and aware and skilled in the practice of collaborating with others respectfully and using Work Health and Safety standards.
The Drama course is written under The ARTS Framework 2021: BSSS ARTS Framework
Achievement Standards for ARTS courses can be found within the Framework.
Through the study of the Arts, students learn to express their ideas, thoughts and opinions, as they discover and interpret an increasingly complex technological and interconnected world. The subjects in this Learning Area share common understandings and broad conceptual underpinnings and imperatives.
Creativity in Drama
Students develop their skills to think imaginatively and flexibly to express their understanding of self, others, and the world. They examine First Nations Australians dramatic practice that stems from a sense of place. They explore techniques and strategies to achieve their purpose and apply the creative process. They will examine a range of approaches to the creative process. Students work collectively, collaboratively, and independently to examine the human experience and create new insights.
Communicating Meaning in Drama
Students examine how meaning is communicated in drama, utilising performance skills, elements of production, forms, and styles. By conducting research and analysing dramatic works that have communicated a powerful message for a particular purpose and students draw conclusions about how meaning was communicated to the intended audience. They develop skills in empathy, interaction, responsiveness, and communication. Through the creation of their own dramatic works and performances, students understand semiotics and power relationships in different societies. They apply dramatic techniques to shape audience response, by provoking, informing, or entertaining.
Drama in Context
Students explore the works of dramatists and performers from different times and different places, to understand the way social, historical, political and/or cultural contexts have shaped theatre and impacted audiences, including First Nations Australians contexts. They engage with the issues and ethical dilemmas confronting people in other contexts, to develop insight and intercultural understanding. Through a range of perspectives, they examine the possibilities - through different genres, forms of practice and approaches to technique, they gain understanding of dramatic techniques that may be applied.
Adaptation in Drama
Students examine a range of spoken, performed, visual or written texts to understand how universal themes and perspectives are represented through adaptation. They assess the relevance of the challenges and the issues that are revealed, and explore possible interpretations, to reimagine them as dramatic performances for a contemporary audience. They develop skills in adaptability, critical analysis, and versatility. In adapting texts, students use a variety of methods, mediums, and techniques to achieve transformation.
Independent Study
An Independent Study unit has an important place in senior secondary courses. It is a valuable pedagogical approach that empowers students to make decisions about their own learning. An Independent Study unit can be proposed by an individual student for their own independent study and negotiated with their teacher. The program of learning for an Independent Study unit must meet the unit goals and content descriptions as they appear in the course. Students must have studied at least THREE standard 1.0 units from this course. A student can only study a maximum of one Independent study unit in each course. An Independent Study unit requires the principal’s written approval. Independent study units are only available to individual students in Year 12. Principal approval is also required for a student in Year 12 to enrol concurrently in an Independent unit and the third 1.0 unit in a course of study.
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