Discipline Skills D

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2008:

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

It is University policy to take all reasonable steps to minimise the impact of disability upon academic study, and reasonable adjustments will be made to enhance a student's participation in the University's programs. Students who feel their disability may impact on meeting the requirements of this subject are encouraged to discuss this matter with a Faculty Student Adviser and Student Equity and Disability Support: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/disability

This subject is for student specialising in Actor Training

The subject examines the process of teaching through theory and practice. It comprises a series of practical workshops and seminar sessions concerned with different aspects of the role of the actor trainer/director particularly in relation to the actor and to dramatic text.

Each student will be apprenticed to an acting lecturer and will pursue a particular line of pedagogy. Areas of content include focus upon the various aspects of actor training and pedagogy. There will be ongoing testing of these skills in Scene Laboratories

On the completion students should have developed the following skills:

• the ability to create and organise aesthetic material;
• the ability to use a range of research tools and methodologies;
• the ability to solve problems;
• the ability to lead others in the skills of problem solving;
• the ability to interpret and analyse;
• the capacity for critical thinking;
• the ability to work as a leader, showing initiative and openness.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.