Drama Honours

Offered by: Faculty of Arts
Convenor: Ms Cathie Clelland
Administration: School of Humanities

Admission Requirements:
To be eligible for admission to Drama IV, students must have:

1. Completed the requirements for a BA pass degree with a Drama major and an additional course from the Drama List A and two later year courses from either List A or List B cognate courses. No more than two of these ten courses shall be at first-year level.

2. Achieved Credit or above in the two core courses DRAM1005 and DRAM1006 and a Credit average or above in the Drama major, including two courses at the level of Distinction.

Students are expected to consult with the Honours Convener in December 2008 about their thesis topic, and are required to seek approval for their topic and arrange supervision with a member of staff no later than early January, when work on their thesis should commence.

Combined Honours including Drama
Students may combine honours in Drama with honours in another discipline. A Combined Honours course must be agreed and arranged through the relevant Conveners, and intending candidates should consult those Conveners at the beginning of their second year of study and take into account the honours requirements in both subjects. Honours programs which would most appropriately be combined with Drama include History, Art History and Visual Studies, Classical and Modern European Languages and Philosophy.

In particular students may take combined Honours in English and Drama, and Film and Drama.

Other possible combinations will also be considered.

List B Cognate Courses
ANTH2049 Filming Cultures
ARCH2052 Archaeology in Film and Fiction
ENGL2009 Theories of Literature and Criticism
ENGL2058 Theories of Imitation and Representation
ENGL2066 Australian Film: Ned Kelly to Mad Max
ENGL2067 Classic Novel into Film
ENGL2069 Modern Novel into Film
FILM1001A/B Introduction to Film Studies (Annual course)
FILM2003 European Cinemas, European Societies
FILM2004 Postwar European Cinema: Films and Directors
FILM2005 Moving Pictures: Cinema and the Visual Arts
FILM2006 U.S. Cinema: Hollywood and Beyond
FREN2023 Cinema in France
GERM3046 German Cinema
HIST2113 Shakespeare's England
HIST2130 History on Film
ITAL3009 Postwar Italian Cinema
LING2010 Phonetics: Sounds of the World's Languages (L)
LING2021 Cross-cultural Communication (L)

Requirements

Honours IV syllabus:
1. One 15,000 word thesis on an approved topic to be submitted before the end of October of the preceding year and to count for 30% of total assessment;

2. Two Drama honours courses, or one course and one internship to be taken, in the first and second semesters. Each course will count for 20% of the total assessment and will be assessed by essay work and seminar papers; and

3. A fully mounted production, to be cast, designed and directed by each honours student OR the complete design of a production including costumes and set designs with the construction of a set model. These productions will normally be mounted in the first semester. Each student will also submit a written analysis (3,000 words) of the production and take part in a viva voce examination on the production with the staff of Drama. Each production will have a budget of $500.

Courses Offered in 2009

Fourth Year
DRAM4005F Drama Honours IV Honours (full time)
DRAM4005P Drama Honours IV Honours (part time)

Further Information

Graduate Studies
Graduate Convenor: Mr Turner (Drama)
The Graduate Program is Creative Arts.
Level of courses offered:
Doctor of Philosophy
Master of Philosophy
Master of Arts
Graduate Diploma in Arts

The Graduate Program in Literature, Screen and Theatre Studies offers students expert supervision in a wide range of research fields. In the literary area we have special strengths and research interests in British, Australian, American, Commonwealth and Comparative Literature, Postcolonial and Gender Studies, Literary Theory, and literature-related studies in Classical and Modern European languages. Within screen studies, our main area of interest and expertise is the adaptation of literary and dramatic texts. For students wishing to specialise in drama, supervision can be offered in various aspects of drama, including theatre history, text and performance.

Go to the List of Undergraduate Courses offered by Faculty of Arts.