Creativity, the Arts and Young People

Subjects

• Creativity, Play and the Arts

  Subject code: EDUC10048
  Level: 1

  Focus on the integral connection between play, the arts and engagement for children and young people.

  Through practical workshops linked to theory, you will interpret and examine playful, creative and artful experiences, and learn how to plan for and experience direct artful/playful interactions with children.

  For more information see the Handbook.

• Creative Projects: Digital Technologies

  Subject code: EDUC10049
  Level: 1

  Even with little formal arts background you can explore creativity, design and innovation in video and film, drama, music, digital storytelling, web design, blogging and the visual arts, using digital technologies in workshops, seminars and during fieldwork.

  You will develop skills in project planning and management, create your own multimedia presentations and investigate themes such as online arts communities and artistic collaboration, remix cultures and the digital revolution.

  For more information see the Handbook.

• Youth Culture and the Arts

  Subject code: EDUC20062
  Level: 2

  This subject will explore how young people engage with the arts (including visual and performing arts), and how the arts helps to form their cultural and social identities. This subject is taught in intensive mode with a combination of tutorials and cultural site visits. Students will investigate trends in young people's use of the arts to develop and express individualities, and then create an arts-based 'artefact' of their choosing using the arts to illustrate understandings of these trends. Student understanding of youth arts will be contextualised through investigations into the companies, organisations and individuals who provide or facilitate visual and performing arts works and experiences for young people. The subject will support the students to understand the processes associated with art-making with young people. During some of the classes, students may have the opportunity to work alongside artists and young people who are studying the arts in schools.

  For more information see the Handbook.

• Story, Children and the Arts

  Subject code: EDUC20083
  Level: 2

  Examine how story and storytelling engage children and young people. Focus on how artful, imaginative and narrative experiences enrich and expand personal and social awareness, and connectedness. You will explore story creating and story telling as expressive modes of communication and meaning-making through practice-based arts workshops linked to theory, and through site visits. You, individually and in groups, will critique, compose/co-create and present stories suitable for young audiences drawing on a variety of texts such as artworks, picture books, film music, scriptwriting, graphic novels, and zines for a youth readership.

  This subject is suitable for students with little formal arts or writing background.

  For more information see the Handbook.

• Staging Theatre for Youth Audiences

  Subject code: EDUC20084

  The subject will explore how to create contemporary theatrical staging of a range of plays for youth audiences. Students will explore techniques and processes, which emphasise an embodied learning and hands-on approach to interpreting a range of theatrical scripts from a variety of styles and periods. Students will explore contemporary staging possibilities to engage young people through theatrical roles including acting, dramaturg, directing and/or design (sound, lighting, props, costume and multimedia). The techniques and processes within this subject can be adapted to the teaching and learning of dramatic texts in schools and other educational and community theatre contexts.

  For more information see the Handbook.