School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Drama as Discovery
  • Unit Code

    DST1100
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christina Claire GRAY

Description

This unit aims to enhance the student's personal awareness, empathy, imagination and creative ideas through exercises in play, rehearsal process, improvisation and stage-craft. The unit also provides an introduction to role play in rehearsal as a means of devising theatre & building character.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate skills in voice, movement, use of space.
  2. Exhibit an awareness of self and respond to group dynamics.
  3. Give form to improvisation by using theatrical devices in performance.
  4. Perform a rehearsed structured scene of their own devising.
  5. Use through practical exercises role play as a means of exploring personal creativity.

Unit Content

  1. An introduction to theatre/rehearsal devices to give structure to improvisation, e.g., developing a plot, exposition, climax, audience awareness.
  2. Improvisation from spontaneous role-play to structured scene using interpersonal relations, co-operative problem solving and genre.
  3. Performance of a structured and rehearsed improvisation from students own devising.
  4. Relaxation, concentration, exercises in group dynamics and sensory awareness.
  5. Skill development in the areas of voice and movement, role playing and characterization.
  6. Use of music, props, costume, to create dramatic focus.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops and discussions.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkScripted Monologue: Performance skills50%
PerformanceDevised performance50%

Core Reading(s)

  • B., B. (2004). Creating drama. (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Pearson.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Drama as Discovery
  • Unit Code

    DST1100
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christina Claire GRAY

Description

This unit aims to enhance the student's personal awareness, empathy, imagination and creative ideas through exercises in play, rehearsal process, improvisation and stage-craft. The unit also provides an introduction to role play in rehearsal as a means of devising theatre & building character.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate skills in voice, movement, use of space.
  2. Exhibit an awareness of self and respond to group dynamics.
  3. Give form to improvisation by using theatrical devices in performance.
  4. Perform a rehearsed structured scene of their own devising.
  5. Use through practical exercises role play as a means of exploring personal creativity.

Unit Content

  1. An introduction to theatre/rehearsal devices to give structure to improvisation, e.g., developing a plot, exposition, climax, audience awareness.
  2. Improvisation from spontaneous role-play to structured scene using interpersonal relations, co-operative problem solving and genre.
  3. Performance of a structured and rehearsed improvisation from students own devising.
  4. Relaxation, concentration, exercises in group dynamics and sensory awareness.
  5. Skill development in the areas of voice and movement, role playing and characterization.
  6. Use of music, props, costume, to create dramatic focus.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops and discussions.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkScripted Monologue: Performance skills50%
PerformanceDevised performance50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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