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Bachelor of Theatre

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The Theatre program at CQUniversity Australia has a carefully designed and performance-integrated structure that will enrich your learning experience.

Within a creative and supportive environment of performance-based training, you will have the opportunity to work in a number of full-scale productions in technical and creative roles.

On completion, you will be a highly skilled and motivated creative performer that is ready for the workplace.

You will develop a wide range of skills, all of which will be contextualised by studies in dramatic literature, theatre history and drama theory.

During your education and training, you will develop advanced skills in problem solving and creative, self-regulated and critical thinking, as well as enhance your singing and voice, acting, dance and movement skills. In addition, you will explore imagination and performance techniques and styles and cover production-related areas, such as lighting, sound and stage management.

Quick Facts

  
Duration: 3 years full-time
Intake: March
Majors: Drama, Music Theatre
Tuition Fee: AUD 31 200 per year
Location: Mackay

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Completion of the Theatre program at CQUniversity Australia will prepare you to pursue employment opportunities in roles such as an:

  • actor
  • musical theatre performer
  • performer
  • director
  • designer
  • theatre technician
  • theatre manager.

This course also provides excellent pathways for careers in education, creative industries and arts administration.

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WHY STUDY AT CQUNIVERSITY

Our Creative, Performing and Visual Arts programs and courses foster the creativity and passion needed for our students to build meaningful and successful careers in the arts locally, nationally and internationally.

Putting you in the spotlight
At CQUniversity, you will never be just a number or a face in the crowd. Our courses will put you on centre stage where your creativity, talent, ambition and enthusiasm will be encouraged and nurtured. Our modern facilities encourage you to be innovative and visionary, and provide the right environment for you to hone your craft and learn about the art form you are specialising in.

Extensive performance opportunities
Much of the success of our music and theatre courses is due to the extensive performance opportunities you will have to work alongside guest artists and leading industry professionals in fully-staged productions and ensembles. When you graduate, you will have the advantage of having already developed networks with professionals in your chosen field.

Connected with industry
Our courses are regularly monitored and updated to ensure they remain in line with current industry practices. CQUniversity’s creative, performing and visual arts academic staff are often still contributing to, and working within, the industry.

Practical experiences
CQUniversity’s creative, performing and visual arts courses will provide you with the right mix of theory and practical experience so that you graduate work-ready. Study digital media and design and you’ll work within multimedia computer laboratories and production studios and learn from award-winning lecturers, who are supportive of your learning needs and offer relevant, real-word experience. Our visual arts courses and units aim to develop your level of creative skill by bringing together technical proficiency and critical awareness in a broad range of areas. Along with professional training in a range of arts practices, these courses allow you to experience two and three dimensional art forms such as painting, digital imaging, glasswork, jewellery and more.

MAJORS

Drama

Completing a Drama major will provide you with extensive studies and training in the craft of acting and allow you to acquire skills in voice and movement.

Music Theatre

The Music Theatre major has a strong practical focus and offers you intensive technical training in singing, dancing and acting, which will equip you as a professionally acknowledged ‘triple threat’ performer.

Theatre Studies

If you are studying the Bachelor of Theatre (theatre studies) by online study, you will have the opportunity to build your understanding of theatre as part of the broader community through studies that include creative writing and the investigation of the practice of theatre in historical and contemporary contexts. You will also be able to develop creative and performing arts projects in areas of interest under the supervision of the highly qualified staff at CQUniversity Australia.

A range of adjunct courses and electives allows you to pursue additional studies in music, or add other allied skills and knowledge in areas of professional and personal interest such as other creative arts and arts administration, events management, education, business, multimedia design and professional communication.

Technical Theatre

A major in Technical Theatre may be suitable if you are keen to work in the creative and performing arts within a production capacity. You will develop skills in stagecraft, stage and production management, lighting, sound and technical direction.

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