DIPLOMA OF TEACHING SUBJECTS
ENGLISH 2 ENGLISH 2
(ii) Television, Radio and Broadcasting (a) analysis, comment, and interview (b) written reviews, scri pts, storyboards (c) historical genre, auteur studies
(d) preparation and transmission of a television or radio newscast, documentary, educational program, dramatic segment
(iii) Print
(a) newspaper, magazine analysis, interview (b) reporting, writing articles
(c) layout, editing (d) writing for children
(e) preparation and publication of magazine, book, or newspaper.
School activities will form part of each election area. Students will encourage and help children to produce a project in the medium they have selected.
C. Log Books
Records and reports of reading, visits, practical work.
ENGLISH 2
DRAMA
A. Creative Drama (one double period per week) This section of the course is designed to give students an understanding of the values and the possibilities of creative drama, both as an aid to personal development and as a means of self expression and communication.
Participation in practical activities aimed at exploring the basic visual and non-visual elements of creative drama, at the students own level, will form the major part of the year's work. The adaptation and application of these activities to the primary school situation will also be investigated.
(i) INTRODUCTION (a) the distinction between theatre and creative drama (b) aspects of personal development through drama.
(ii) MOVEMENT
(a) the distinction between functional and expressive movement (b) the language and qualities of movement
(c) the exploration of ideas and emotions through movement.
(iii) SOUND
(a) the relationship between sound and movement
(b) the exploration of vocal and non-vocal sound through drama (c) oral language development through drama and non-drama activities.
(iv) VISUAL RESOURCES
The relationship between drama and visual resources such as colour, lighting, masks, costumes.
B. Theatre and Dramatic Literature (a single period per week) The reading, discussion, and comparative study of plays selected from different periods, from Greek to contemporary. The application of the visual and non-visual elements of drama to the study of adult theatre will also be discussed with particular reference to the plays selected for study. (The selection will be drawn mainly from plays to be presented in Melbourne during 1972).
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ENGLISH 3
LITERATURE
In their third year, students will have the opportunity to consolidate and extend previous studies in English literature, reviewing the develop- ment of the novel and poetry up to the present day and making an original study in depth of one area. Extensive and consistent reading of both primary and secondary references will be necessary throughout the year.
Each student will be required to study both the novel and poetry, nomin- ating one for section A and the other for section B.
Section A
A chronological survey of either the novel or poetry. Students will be required to make an appropriate parallel study in an area in which they have a developed interest. This will be related to their studies in literature in an attempt to place literary development in its broader cultural per-
spective. Suggested parallel studies could include philosophy, music, the visual arts, theology, sociology, politics, social psychology. This section will be divided into a series of units, each of approximately two weeks.
Each student will be assigned a specific reading and research topic related to the unit topic, the results of which will be presented at a seminar to be held at the conclusion of each unit. During these seminars discussion will endeavour to integrate literary characteristics and developments in various parallel studies, thereby building an awareness of the overall climate within which literature develops.
Section B
Students will make a depth study of any one area which has proved of interest in section A. This should be an original study, based upon individual reading and research. A specific area of investigation will be defined by each student under the guidance of the lecturer. Individual work will be carried out in close contact with the supervising lecturer and will result in a final submission of an essay of three to four thousand words.
Section C
Throughout the year students will be encouraged to examine critically their own attitudes towards literature and language and the processes by which these attitudes were formed. On the basis of this, each student will focus attention upon a particular area of language study during school experience and evaluate the aims and methods used to develop children's language abilities. No formal assignments will be required in this section, although students should be able to provide evidence of intensive and developing experience in language study in the classroom.
ENGLISH 3
COMMUNICATIONS
If a sufficient number of students enrols to take this elective as a major study, a new course will be offered in 1972.
No syllabus is available as the handbook goes to press; the lecturer concerned is on leave.
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ENGLISH 3
DRAMA
A. Practical Work in Performance and Aspects of Stagecraft (i) the presentation of selected plays from section B(i) below (ii) the presentation of plays for children.
B. Theatre and Dramatic Literature
(i) Seminars involving the reading, discussion and comparative study of plays selected from different periods from Greek to contemporary.
Possible topics include Greek comedy, Commedia del'Arte, Restor- ation drama and the modern theatre movement.
(ii) Independent study and written work on an aspect of theatre and dramatic literature to be decided upon by the student in consultation with the lecturer concerned. Possible topics include directors' theories, dramatic analysis, criticism, form, dramatic theory, theatre history, etc.
C. Playwriting (optional)
An independent activity designed to involve the student in this area of self-expression.
D. Child Drama
An investigation into the theory and practice of child drama in the primary school. Various approaches to child drama will be demonstrated, discussed and evaluated. The implementation of a drama program based on this research will be undertaken by students during their final teaching round in Term 3.
ART ART s
This first-year course is related to the art and craft course recently intro- duced into the primary school. It is concerned with a study of children, the experimental and creative aspects of art and craft, and uses a wide variety of materials and techniques.
(i) DRAWING, PAINTING, ANI) PRINTMAKING CLAY ACTIVITIES
(iii) CONSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES (iv)THREADS AND TEXTILES
An investigation of threads and woven materials, simple weaving techniques, and stitch invention.