Bachelor of Creative Arts (Drama)
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2025 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Bachelor of Creative Arts (Drama) |
| Deakin course code | A357 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Campus | Offered at Burwood (Melbourne) For students who commenced prior to 2023 only |
| Duration | 3 years full-time or part-time equivalent |
| CRICOS course code | 060434K Burwood (Melbourne) |
The final intake to this course was in Trimester 2 2022. Students should contact a Student Adviser in Student Central for course and enrolment information. Further course structure information can be found in the handbook archive. | |
Course sub-headings
Transition to University study
The faculty offers two units AIX160 Introduction to University Study and AIX117 Professional Writing for Work [No longer available for enrolment] which are specifically designed to ease the transition into university study. New students are encouraged to enrol in one or both of these units as electives in their first year.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities | Interpret and apply conceptual, theoretical and technical skills in the analysis and presentation of a range of creative outcomes. |
| Communication | Critically employ a variety of mediums, methods and techniques to present ideas and practical work. |
| Digital literacy | Critically evaluate, manipulate and apply a range of information technologies, digital tools, devices and environments to support and develop creative processes. |
| Critical thinking | Analyse and synthesize research materials across a diversity of sources and mediums to generate original and diverse creative work. |
| Problem solving | Apply theoretical and practical knowledge to generate and express solutions to creative arts problems |
| Self-management | Develop, manage and critically reflect upon the production and presentation of creative works in accordance with industry standards and personal learning goals. |
| Teamwork | Contribute in a constructive and respectful way to the collaborative production of creative outcomes. |
| Global citizenship | Engage critically, respectfully and with self-awareness when working within diverse social and cultural contexts in creative arts practice. |
Approved at Faculty Board March 2019
Course structure
Core units
| ACA102 | Creativity: Thinking Through Doing [replaces ACA100] |
| ACA204 | Production Lab [replaces ACA211] |
| ACP211 | Devising Theatre [replaces ACA210] |
| ACP212 | Technical Production 2 [replaces ACA210] |
| ACP213 | Technical Production 3 [replaces ACA211] |
| ACD309 | Process Towards Performance [replaces ACA310] |
| ACP324 | Ensemble Devising (A) [replaces ACA310] |
| ACA301 | Student-Devised Public Performance [replaces ACA311] |
| AWL302 | Your Professional Story [replaces ACA309] |
| ACA309 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| ACP314 | Technical Production 4 [replaces ACA397] |
Plus 1 course elective
ACA100 Introductory Creative Studio 1A [No longer available for enrolment, replacement unit ACA102]
ACA101 Introductory Creative Studio 1B [No longer available for enrolment, replacement unit AIX117]
ACA210 Creative Studio 2A [2 credit points, no longer available for enrolment, replacement units ACP211 and ACP212]
ACA211 Creative Studio 2B [2 credit points, no longer available for enrolment, replacement units ACA204 and ACP213]
ACA310 Creative Studio 3A [2 credit points, no longer available for enrolment, replacement units ACP324 and ACD309]
ACA311 Creative Studio 3B [2 credit points, no longer available for enrolment, replacement units ACA301 and 1 course elective]
ACA309 Creative Careers and Contexts [no longer available for enrolment, replacement unit AWL302]
ACA397 Creative Arts Project Production [no longer available for enrolment, replacement unit ACP314]
AIX117 Professional Writing for Work [No longer available for enrolment, replaces ACA101]
Drama discipline units
| ACP103 | Acting Studio |
| ACP109 | Improvisation for Theatre |
| ACP207 | Director's Workshop |
| ACP212 | Technical Production 2 [replaces ACP208] |
ACP208 Theatre Technologies [No longer available for enrolment, replacement unit ACP212]
Course Electives
Complete two 1 credit point units from the following course electives list A:
| ACD104 | Exploring Dance Styles |
| ACD207 | Improvisation for Dance and Movement |
| ACI101 | Analogue Photography |
| ACI102 | Digital Photography |
| ACI204 | Photographic Storytelling |
| ACI205 | Photographic Lighting and Lens |
| ACV101 | Painting in the Visual Arts |
| ACV115 | Drawing and the Body in Visual Arts |
| ACV212 | Digital Practices and the Visual Arts |
| ACV213 | Modelling and the Visual Arts |
ACA226 How to Write About Art [No longer available for enrolment]
ACD208 Dance Beyond the Studio [No longer available for enrolment]
ACD103 Dance and Screens [No longer available for enrolment]
Electives
Complete six electives
We suggest students complete at least 4 units in a subject area different to their degree, preferably a linked sequence of study in the same area. This choice can include units from any degree in the University but is best chosen from the subject areas in the Bachelor of Creative Arts: (Dance, Visual Arts, Photography), Bachelor of Design: (Visual Communication, Digital Technologies, 3D Animation) or Bachelor of Arts programs.
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, and their study discipline or your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.