Undergraduate Major

Theatre and Creative Production

Want to turn your passion for theatre and performance into a career? Keen to be part of a new generation of multi-skilled creative professionals? Then this is the major for you.

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Murdoch code
MJ-THCP
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Full Time or Part Time
Selection rank
70
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Overview

The Theatre and Creative Production major brings together creative production disciplines to provide a degree unlike any other being offered in Australia.

By enrolling in this major, you’ll learn how to create multi-media content, adapting to the changing face of theatre and performing arts in the wake of shifting technologies and audience expectations.

The Theatre and Creative Production major links forms of creative production, provoking commentary on society and promote change. You’ll be empowered to create your own theatre productions, work with established theatre companies, and/or provide creative production support to a wide range of employers.

3 reasons to study Theatre and Creative Production at Murdoch

  1. Study and perform in professional theatre venues, including Studio 411 and Nexus Theatre.
  2. Have the opportunity to participate in theatre internships to gain real world experience. 
  3. Learn from professional creative practitioners (actors, directors, writers, filmmakers, and theatre technicians).

What you’ll learn

Build essential skills and knowledge to meet your career or study goals. Topics you’ll cover include:

  • The ways theatre and creative production inform—and are informed by—understandings of complex human experiences of our past, present, and future.
  • Cultural, historical, social, ethical, and other contexts of theatre and creative production.
  • How to analyse competing interpretations of written and performative texts to inform creative practice.
  • How to thoughtfully interpret multiple perspectives in order to understand complex and diverse experiences.
  • Develop industry-relevant skills in theatrical and creative production.

Your career

When you graduate, you’ll be well suited to careers in a range of creative industries and fields such as live theatre production, online theatre production, arts administration, and online content creation. Careers could include:

  • Writer
  • Theatre Technician
  • Production Manager
  • Stage Manager
  • Production Designer
  • Director
  • Actor
  • Arts Administrator

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Structure

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Total credit points: 24

Unit code Unit name Credit points
Major24 credit points
Required Units9 credit points
EGL101Drama, Theatre and Performance3
EGL254Making Contemporary Theatre3
EGL353Acting and Producing for Stage3
Elective Units15 credit points
COM303Media Audiences3
OR
EGL231Poetry as Performance: Sonnet to Slam3
OR
EGL244Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Page and Stage3
OR
EGL245Performing Shakespeare3
OR
SCR101Screen Production 13
OR
SCR222Directing and Producing3
OR
SOU101Introduction to Audio Production3
OR
SOU214Sound Production3
OR
TOU232Festivals and Events3
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Entry requirements

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English Requirements

You must meet a minimum standard in English to study at Murdoch, which for most courses can be demonstrated by providing evidence that you have completed Year 11 and 12 in Australia at any level if you are a domestic student, or through either English proficiency tests, university preparation courses, English language courses, previous tertiary study or vocational education.

Advanced Standing

Everyone has a different path to university so if you’ve already completed formal or informal learning, you could receive advanced standing. Also known as recognition of prior learning, advanced standing can reduce the amount of study needed to complete your degree by giving you credit for certain units.

Formal learning can include previous study in higher education vocational education or adult and community education. Informal learning can include on the job learning, various kinds of work and life experience.

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This information applies to courses offered at our Australian campuses only. Courses offered at our Dubai  and Singapore campuses or delivered by Open Universities Australia may have different requirements.

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Instead of paying an overall course fee, you pay for the individual units you enrol in. The total course cost will vary depending on the units you choose.

Following your successful application, you’ll receive a Letter of Offer which will contain specific course and fee information.

If you are applying for an undergraduate course, you may be eligible for a Commonwealth Supported Place. Postgraduate programs are full fee paying, unless indicated otherwise in your Letter of Offer.

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