Year 12 OP Assessment Booklet 2019

YEAR 12 DRAMA (OP)

COURSE OUTLINE Drama provides a learning environment which promotes imagination, critical thinking, cultural engagement, communication, creativity and problem-solving. Through the study of Drama, students are connected to their own creative processes and provided with opportunities to imagine themselves as others exploring beliefs, feelings, behaviours and relationships across diverse situations. Drama provides students with a range of skills transferable to a variety of future pathways. In a knowledge-based economy, the world requires workers who are innovative thinkers, adept communicators and excellent team players. The collaborative nature of drama as an art form provides students with opportunities to learn and to manage the interpersonal and intrapersonal skills required to work effectively, both individually and in groups. In Year 12, Drama is explored through the general objectives of Forming, Presenting and Responding: • Forming – Where students actively create, shape and manage drama. They learn to hypothesise, experiment and make judgments as they select, manipulate and structure the dramatic languages to create their own work. • Presenting – Where students use dramatic action to express and communicate their ideas and meanings effectively to an audience. In this dimension they are required to display a range of planned, rehearsed and/or polished acting and performance techniques. • Responding – Where students develop their skills in critical analysis, interpretation, evaluation, reflection and communication to deepen their knowledge and understanding of the elements of drama, performance skills, dramatic styles, texts and contexts. Through the study of Drama, students are encouraged to: • Engage in aesthetic learning experiences and understand the diverse role of dramatic arts workers in cultures past and present • Become adept in using the languages and symbol systems of drama to make and communicate meaning • Symbolically represent the world they live in and deepen their understanding of symbolic representations • Appreciate the complex function and purpose of drama • Recognise the diversity of traditional and present-day technologies and techniques to support their learning • Value the range of social and cultural contexts in which drama is made in Australia and internationally • Engage with, appreciate and value the contribution of Australian drama, including its indigenous and multicultural drama styles • Build self-discipline, confidence and communication skills to achieve their unique potential and have lifelong involvement in dramatic activities Develop skills and understandings that are transferable to a variety of community activities, careers, professions and creative industry contexts

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