Drama

This syllabus is designed for students to experience, understand, enjoy and value drama as a social, collaborative and creative art form and as an expression of culture through making, performing and critically studying drama and theatre.

Students will develop:

• knowledge and understanding about, and skills in making
  • drama through participation in a variety of dramatic and theatrical forms
  • drama and theatre using a variety of dramatic elements, theatrical techniques and conventions
  
  
• values and attitudes about
  • the collaborative nature of drama and theatre
  
  
• knowledge and understanding about, and skills in, performing
  • using the elements of drama and theatre in performance
  • in improvised and playbuilt theatre, and scripted drama
  
  
• values and attitudes about
  • the diversity of the art of dramatic and theatrical performance
  
  
• knowledge and understanding about, and skills in, critically studying
  • the place and function of drama and theatre in communities and societies, past and present
  • a variety of forms and styles used in drama and theatre
  
  
• values and attitudes about
  • drama and the theatre as a community activity, a profession and an industry.
  
  

A syllabus is a document that gives teachers an outline of what students are to be taught in a specific learning area.

The syllabus and other supporting material for Drama 11-12 are available from the Board of Studies.