Some majors require further Year 12 prerequisites. Students choose either performance or teaching as a particular emphasis within the major in the second and third years of the course. All applicants must attend an interview and audition. The audition will consist of two pieces of a contrasting nature on the applicant's main instrument. Graduates from this course possess skills formative to building careers as directors, writers, dramaturges, community arts officers, arts administrators, teachers and academics.
Entry is by audition only.
Students will normally have successfully completed four semesters of English at a secondary school level. In extreme circumstances where distance is prohibitive, it is possible to organise to present an audition via video. Entry is assessed from an interview. Course entry is assessed at an interview and on the basis of a project presented by the applicant to the interviewing panel. This major explores the foundations of all contemporary art practice.