Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama)

This course offers you the opportunity to explore many roles onstage and behind the scenes as you investigate what makes drama tick.

You’ll learn about what’s come before in the history of drama so you can change what happens next.

You’ll combine theory, skills and practice as you explore the rich possibilities that theatre and performance hold to entertain, engage and transform our view of the world.

You’ll collaborate with others to create new performances that are built to surprise.

Theatre necessarily combines many fields of creative practice, so drama graduates tend to be curious, versatile and able to adapt quickly to a rapidly changing creative environment.

They’re the people we call on to find out not only why, but how drama works.

Domestic Students

Your course

To meet the course requirements of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama), you must complete the following:

• Two common units (KYB101 and KYB102) – 24 credit points
• Drama major – 168 credit points
• Complementary studies – 48 credit points from the Situated Creative Practice Extension plus 48 credit points chosen from a minor or unit options (electives). 

Year 1

• strong practical focus with classes, workshops and an end-of-year production
• investigate theatre history
• develop performance skills
• learn how to lead drama workshops in theatre, educational and corporate contexts

Year 2

• extend practical skills and understanding of devised performance in the Australian and community theatre context, its history and plays
• option to undertake events and festival management units
• tailor your course to your vocational interests
• choose electives in a second major and/or minors from creative industries or across QUT

Year 3

• develop as a collaborative and entrepreneurial theatre artist
• acquire leadership skills in directing
• analyse your own creative practice
• undertake internships and project-based work
• complete your second major, minors or electives
• learn from specialist staff and industry professionals
• prepare, create and present your final production

International Students

Your course

To meet the course requirements of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama), you must complete the following:

• Two common units (KYB101 and KYB102) – 24 credit points
• Drama major – 168 credit points
• Complementary studies – 48 credit points from the Situated Creative Practice Extension plus 48 credit points chosen from a minor or unit options (electives). 

Year 1

• strong practical focus with classes, workshops and an end-of-year production
• investigate theatre history
• develop performance skills
• learn how to lead drama workshops in theatre, educational and corporate contexts

Year 2

• extend practical skills and understanding of devised performance in the Australian and community theatre context, its history and plays
• option to undertake events and festival management units
• tailor your course to your vocational interests
• choose electives in a second major and/or minors from creative industries or across QUT

Year 3

• develop as a collaborative and entrepreneurial theatre artist
• acquire leadership skills in directing
• analyse your own creative practice
• undertake internships and project-based work
• complete your second major, minors or electives
• learn from specialist staff and industry professionals
• prepare, create and present your final production

Study Overseas

Study overseas while gaining credit towards your QUT creative industries degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners. Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in a creative or non-creative discipline area, depending on how they match with your QUT course. Saving your electives for exchange will allow you the most flexibility. Find out more about studying on exchange.

Assumed knowledge

Before you start this course, we assume you have sound knowledge of the subject/s listed below. If you don't have the subject knowledge, you can still apply for the course but we encourage you to undertake bridging studies to gain the knowledge:

• English, or Literature, or English and Literature Extension, or English as an Additional Language (Units 3 & 4, C)

Offer guarantee

If you achieve an ATAR/selection rank of 93.00 or higher (including any adjustments) and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.

Advanced standing

If you have prior studies or work experience, you may be eligible for advanced standing (credit). You can apply for advanced standing once you've been accepted to QUT. If you're in your first semester of study, you must apply for advanced standing within 10 days of receiving your offer.

Deferment

Adjustments to your selection rank

Any adjustments you receive to your selection rank (or OP equivalent) will be applied to this course.

Find out if you’re eligible for an adjustment to your selection rank

Offers we made to school leavers in Semester 1, 2019

The scores listed in the tables below reflect the offers that were made to recent school leavers. If you are not a school leaver, take a look at the entry thresholds box at the top of this page to see the lowest adjusted scores required overall to receive an offer.

You can find out more about your fellow students’ backgrounds with this course’s student profile.

Other admission options

If you are of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, you may be eligible for admission through our Centralised Assessment Selection Process (CASP).

Careers and outcomes(DOM,INT)

As a multiskilled graduate you will seek to complement your artistic career with paid employment in related areas. Our graduates make new performance work and create new ways of looking at the world. They harness the collaborative power of groups of people to make things happen. This explains the dynamic impact they continue to have on the Australian creative industries, and the successful careers they’ve developed across the sector.

Graduates have established successful careers as playwrights, artistic directors, directors and designers or performers working across a variety of genres including physical theatre or music.

Possible careers

• Actor
• Arts Administrator
• Designer
• Director
• Drama Teacher
• Events and Festivals Coordinator
• Stage Manager
• Theatre Lighting
• Theatre Professionals