Examination arrangement

Course content

Basic knowledge about play, drama and theatre-based activities focussing on resource-oriented strategies that contribute to life quality, well-being, personal growth and agency, socially, physically and emotionally. The course content emphasizes inclusive methods that support the participant or client in developing their own life skills. The course will provide practical skills in applying play, improvisation and principles from dramatherapy. Students of this course will get experience and knowledge about how aesthetic distancing can be applied intentionally in regards to the client's/pupil's improved well-being, assertion and self-efficacy.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

When the course is passed the student has knowledge about

• how drama and theatre is applied in therapeutic and health-promoting contexts
• planning and facilitating drama workshops with health-promotional and resource-oriented rationale
• the therapeutic relationship

Skills

When the course is passed the student is able to

• plan and structure drama- and theatre-based practice with health-promotion as the intention
• substantiate and choose relevant exercises and methods for specific groups
• reflect and assess drama sessions and theatre-based methods in the light of a health-promotional and resource-oriented perspective

General competences

After the course is passed the student can

• organize, plan and implement activities in good and responsible dialogue with others
• assess and analyze the quality of professional performance, their own and others'
• be part of group collaboration with individual integrity

Learning methods and activities

Lectures and seminars, workshops with reflection and discussions.

Compulsory assignments

• Approved individual issue
• Approved attendance of minimum 80 %
• Approved reflection note

Further on evaluation

The exam is an individual written assignment, 3000-4000 words, in the form of a semester assignment. In order to take the exam, the student needs to be present at a minimum of 80 % of the lessons offered and the reflection assignment needs to be approved.

Specific conditions

Recommended previous knowledge

Preferably you have some experience working with other people in educational, therapeutic and/or cultural settings.

Course materials

Langley, Dorothy (2006) An Introduction to Dramatherapy, Sage Publications. 184 pages. Compendium with relevant texts.