Bachelor of Creative Arts and Community Wellbeing

Theatre Major

The Theatre major provides students with a blend of acting, dramaturgy, creative development, cultural responsibility and theatre-in-community learning experiences to generate the skills required for application in a diverse range of sectors such as entertainment, community, arts, education, and health. Students will participate in drama practice that is designed to critically engage with communities and enhance cultural safety and agency for participants. This major is underpinned by foundational Human Services courses to equip students with the necessary knowledge to apply their creative processes in/with/and for diverse communities to assist individuals and groups to build capacity and resilience.

Duration

3-years Full Time

6-years Part Time

Campus

Toowoomba

Online

QTAC Code

909941

909945

ATAR

60

Credit Points

24

What You Study?

You will participate in a blend of acting, dramaturgy, creative development, and theatre-in-community learning experiences to generate the skills required for application in a diverse range of sectors.

Community Welfare and Development

Acting and Interpretation

Foundation of the Human Services Disciplines

Theatre in Communities

Making Theatre History 1: Classic Plays in Context

Acting for the Digital Medium

Mental Health and Wellbeing

Human Services Case Management

Educational Drama

Community Project 1

Theatre and Adaptation

Community Project 2

THT2003 Educational Drama

This course introduces students to practice in educational drama so they may apply deliver workshops to and in collaboration with a wide variety of participants. Students will undertake reflexivity and ambiguity as ways to experiment with  how drama is used as a pedagogic tool to teach about the human condition The learning in this course is dynamic and aims to build on already-practiced skills from first year in order to increase the capacity for employability in the cultural or educational sectors.

CAW3001 Community Project 1

This course seeks to explore at an advanced level the intersection between theory and practice within the creative arts and human services sectors. Students operating at an advanced level will demonstrate capacity to think critically and to integrate ideas with practice to achieve a tangible outcome. All 3rd year students in the Bachelor of Creative Arts and Community Wellbeing will undertake this applied project course to ensure entry level practical experience within a community setting to assist in their preparation for employment. It is particularly important that students are able to identify problems, resolve them in a creative and ethical manner, and reflect critically on the process. This course enables students to scope the relevant sector, then observe, record and participate with community while under expert supervision.

THT2004 Theatre and Adaptation

From the moment they were first written, performed, and printed, classical plays (from the Greeks to the Renaissance) have been subjected to almost constant contestation and adaptation. Perhaps more than any other set of creative texts, these dramatic works have been cut, edited, abridged, modernised, and re-written for stage and screen, turned into novels, comics, games, and apps, and transformed for use in classrooms, prisons, and digital media. The study of the variety of ways in which classic dramatic texts have been adapted and re-written provides students with a crucial engagement with theories of text and performance that can be applied in their own project and creative work, and furthers develops the scholarly, critical and writing skills attained in THT1001 and THT1002.

CAW3002 Community Project 2

This course seeks to explore at an advanced level the intersection between theory and practice within the creative arts and human services sectors. Students operating at an advanced level will be able to be independent and apply critical thinking to integrate their knowledge of both sectors to generate an appropriate project for implementation.  All 3rd year students in the Bachelor of Creative Arts and Community Wellbeing will undertake this applied project course to ensure entry level practical experience within a community setting to assist in their preparation for employment. It is particularly important that students are able to identify problems, resolve them in a creative and ethical manner, and reflect critically on the process. This course enables students to build on the skills and insights gained from completing CAW3001 by enacting independent practice within a community setting under limited supervision.

Why Choose Theatre?

The theatre making major is for those who want to make original performance. Whether you’re curious about writing, directing, performing, teaching (or maybe Drama is just your favourite subject at school), this program offers students a diverse range of experience and the foundations for a sustainable career in the creative arts. Graduates from theatre making programs at USQ have gone on to be award-winning playwrights, nationally acclaimed directors, expert academics, celebrated comedians, speciality drama teachers, arts therapists and much more.

Your Career

Graduates will understand how arts processes can be employed to enable others to grow confidence, foster trust, alleviate worry, communicate trauma, celebrate achievements, share knowledge, and feel better.  Employers could include community services (youth, indigenous, aged, refugee, homeless, unemployed), community arts, local government, hospitals/allied health, correctional services, schools, NGOs, and churches.

Career opportunities include:

Program Activities Officer

Youth Arts Worker

Community Officer – Arts, Culture and Experience

Youth Development Coach

Creative Lifestyle Facilitator

Your Career

Graduates will understand how arts processes can be employed to enable others to grow confidence, foster trust, alleviate worry, communicate trauma, celebrate achievements, share knowledge, and feel better.  Employers could include community services (youth, indigenous, aged, refugee, homeless, unemployed), community arts, local government, hospitals/allied health, correctional services, schools, NGOs, and churches.

Career opportunities include:

Program Activities Officer

Youth Arts Worker

Community Officer – Arts, Culture and Experience

Youth Development Coach

Creative Lifestyle Facilitator

Your Career

Graduates will understand how arts processes can be employed to enable others to grow confidence, foster trust, alleviate worry, communicate trauma, celebrate achievements, share knowledge, and feel better.  Employers could include community services (youth, indigenous, aged, refugee, homeless, unemployed), community arts, local government, hospitals/allied health, correctional services, schools, NGOs, and churches.

Career opportunities include:

Program Activities Officer

Youth Arts Worker

Community Officer – Arts, Culture and Experience

Youth Development Coach

Creative Lifestyle Facilitator

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