Creative Arts (Drama), Bachelor

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): combine your passion for creativity with psychology for an innovative career as a creative counsellor, art therapist or practitioner
• business: develop a career in performing arts marketing and management
• law: use your skills for a career as an in-house lawyer, solicitor in private practice, policy adviser, intellectual property lawyer supporting creative arts businesses and entertainment law
• education (secondary): combine your interests in the arts and education to prepare you to teach in secondary schools and other education environments. Additional entry requirements apply to the Bachelor of Education.