Bachelor of Creative Arts (Drama)

Queensland University of Technology

Highlights:Develop transferable skills in leadership and team building, with opportunities to immerse yourself in the real-world through internships and projects related to your career focus. Connect with a vibrant community at the QUT Creative Industries Precinct, with opportunities to build your professional networks through student clubs and industry connections.Undertake a live performance outcome each year, guided by experienced directors and industry professionals and learn skills in how to plan, develop, perform and produce live events.The most flexible and comprehensive drama program in Queensland with the unique ability to expand your skillset with a second major, minors and/or extensions and electives to reach your dream career outcomes.Unique course structure allows you to combine creative disciplines together to develop transferable skills across a range of industries.What to expect:This course offers you the opportunity to explore many roles onstage and behind the scenes as you investigate what makes drama tick. During your three years, you'll learn about what's come before in the history of drama so you can change what happens next, combine theory, skills and practice. You'll explore the rich possibilities that theatre and performance hold to entertain, engage and transform our view of the world and collaborate with others to create new performances that are built to surprise.This course incorporates a range of contemporary approaches to performance making. You will be encouraged to engage with new and traditional theatre forms and consider the place of technology. You will develop transferable skills in leadership and team building as you progress through this course, with opportunities to immerse yourself in the industry through internships and projects related to your career focus.You will also build skills in areas such as critical and creative thinking, self-awareness and digital fluency which will prepare you for a rapidly changing future with QUT You units.The drama degree offers pathways into the Master of Teaching course and double degree options. Check the entry requirements for specific teaching courses.Double degrees: Combine your Bachelor of Creative Arts (Drama) degree with a second study area for greater career flexibility and opportunities in other industries. Consider a double degree with: behavioural science (psychology), business, law, education (secondary).Careers and outcomes:As a multiskilled graduate you will seek to complement your artistic career with paid employment in related areas. Our graduates make new performance work and create new ways of looking at the world. They harness the collaborative power of groups of people to make things happen. This explains the dynamic impact they continue to have on the Australian creative industries, and the successful careers they've developed across the sector.Graduates of the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Drama) course have become leading artists, producers, arts educators, theatre and performance researchers. Graduates have also established successful careers as playwrights, artistic directors, directors and designers or performers working across a variety of genres including physical theatre or music.If teaching is your ambition, this course can be also followed with a graduate-entry teacher education Master of Teaching courses which enables you to become a qualified teacher. Check the entry requirements for specific teaching courses.Pathways also exist to prepare you for further study including research.Possible careers:Acting/theatre/drama teacherActorArtistic directorCreative practionerDrama teacherEvents and festivals coordinatorIndependent artistProducerStage managerTheatre professional

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