Drama and Theatre Studies: Arts Honours Area of Study
Campus availability: Clayton
The honours program in Drama and Theatre Studies is administered by the School of English, Communications, and Performance Studies .
Drama and Theatre Studies honours can be completed within the honours degree of the Bachelor of Arts or the honours degree of the Bachelor of Letters.
Students who completed the Bachelor of Performing Arts (and meet the necessary entry requirements) can complete the honours degree of the Bachelor of Performing Arts.
How to apply
Note: It is possible to do Honours in Drama and Theatre Studies part-time, although this is not recommended.
Program
Students complete 48 points at fourth-year level including: a dissertation, thesis or creative project; a compulsory coursework unit (DTS4000); one additional coursework unit chosen from the electives listed. Students are also required to attend a short methodology course.
Coursework units and the thesis topic are chosen in consultation with the Drama and Theatre Studies Honours Coordinator .
Units that can be counted towards discipline
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Core Units
- DTS4000 Dramatic theory, Criticism and Research Methods
AND EITHER
- DTS4500 Research Dissertation OR
- DTS4500(A) Research Dissertation Part 1 AND DTS4500(B) Research Dissertation Part 2
OR
- DTS4600 Thesis /Investigative Project OR
- DTS4600(A) Thesis /Investigative Project Part 1 AND DTS4600(B) Thesis /Investigative Project Part 2
OR
- DTS4800 Creative Project OR
- DTS4800(A) Creative Project Part 1 AND DTS4800(B) Creative Project Part 2
Elective units
- CLS4760 Gender, Body and Performance
- DTS4002 Creating the New: Theatre and its Experiments
- DTS4004 Rethinking Theatre History
- DTS4820 Twentieth Century Australian Drama
- A maximum of 12 points at fourth-year level from another discipline and/or institution with the permission of the Drama and Theatre Studies Honours Coordinator