Skip navigation to main content

You are here: UNE Home / Course and Unit Catalogue / 2010 / A-Z / THEA318

Sub sections:

Quick Search

Quick Links

Year:

THEA318 Minorities and Majorities in Australian Theatre

Credit Points 6
Offering Not offered in 2010
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
N/A N/A Mandatory
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites any 36cp or 12cp in THEA units
Co-requisites None
Restrictions THEA218
Notes

offered in odd numbered years
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Adrian Kiernander (akiernan@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit explores issues of power and identity (including gender, race, class and sexuality) within the context of recent Australian Theatre. Some of the topics to be covered are: women's theatre; multicultural theatre; Aboriginal theatre; and gay and lesbian theatre. There is one mandatory intensive school for off-campus students in this unit.
Prescribed Material
Mandatory 		Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

The 7 Stages of Grieving
ISBN: 9780908156535
Enoch, W. and Mailman, D., Playlab Press 1996
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Three Plays by Asian Australians
ISBN: 9780908156597
Batchelor, D. (ed), Playlab Press 2000
Note: For Chinese Take Away by Anna Yen
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Plays of the 70s: Volume 2
ISBN: 9780868195520
Brisbane, K. (ed.), Currency Press Vol. 2 1999
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Blak Inside: 6 Indigenous Plays from Victoria
ISBN: 9780868196626
Anderson, T. and others, Currency Press 2002
Note: For Conversations with the Dead by Richard Frankland
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Aftershocks
ISBN: 9780868196503
Brown, P. and the Workers' Cultural Action Committee, Currency Press 1993
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Mongrels
ISBN: 9780868193632
Enright, N., Currency Press 1994
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Toy Symphony
ISBN: 9780868198286
Gow, M., Currency Press 2008
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Australian Women's Drama: Texts and Feminisms
ISBN: 9780868194974
Tait, P. and Schafer, E. (eds), Currency Press 1997
Note: For Running Up a Dress by Suzanne Spunner, The Forty Lounge Cafe by Tes Lyssiotis and Historia by Noelle Janacewska
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Assignment 1: Essay 20% Off Campus 1500
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-3 GA: 1-7
Assignment 1: Performance 30% On Campus
Assessment Notes
Performance and write-up
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-3 GA: 1-8
Assignment 2: Essay 30% On Campus 2000
Assessment Notes
Performance essay or written essay
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-3 GA: 1-7
Assignment 2:Online discussion 20% Off Campus
Assessment Notes
Structured Discussion board participation
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-3 GA: 1-8
Assignment 3 20% Off Campus
Assessment Notes
Structured participation in Intensive School
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-3 GA: 1-8
Assignment 3: Presentation 20% On Campus
Assessment Notes
Tutorial presentation and structured participation in workshops
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-3 GA: 1-8
Assignment 4: Essay 20% Off Campus 1000
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-3 GA: 1-7
Unit Test 20%

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. describe the diversity of Australian theatre styles and concerns, and their relationship to mainstream and non-mainstream societies;
  2. identify and practice a range of mainstream and marginal performance techniques and strategies;
  3. discuss the influence of minority theatre practice on Australian society; especially by black, migrant, women, gay and lesbian theatre practitioners.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
The unit examines a wide range of non-mainstream Australian plays, practitioners and theatre companies. 		True True True
2 Communication Skills
The unit requires students to exercise written communication skills in both formal (assignments, essay) and informal (email discussion list) modes. 		True True True
3 Global Perspectives
Students encounter theatre written for and within a variety of different social backgrounds, such as several plays dealing with experiences of migration to Australia. 		True True True
4 Information Literacy
The unit offers students an opportunity to use internet-based communication to support their learning. 		True True True
5 Life-Long Learning
The unit requires students to develop and deploy generic learning skills such as information gathering, analysis and exploration, reflection and reporting. 		True True True
6 Problem Solving
An assessment task requires students to solve problems encountered in re-staging a play from the canon of Australian theatre in a manner that highlights experiences of social difference. 		True True True
7 Social Responsibility
Students are required to think critically about relations between mainstream and margin both within Australian theatre, and within Australian society more broadly. 		True True True
8 Team Work
Students are invited to share and discuss ideas using an email discussion list. 		True True True
   

Email to a friend