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Advanced Higher Drama (Course Code: C821 77)

Scqf level 7 (32 scqf credit points).

Why study Drama?

Drama gives you the opportunity to use your imagination and express yourself in a creative and practical way. It helps you to develop important skills such as problem solving, communication, planning and creative thinking. It is particularly suitable for those who love being creative, getting their ideas across in a dramatic way and communicating their ideas with others.

The skills that you develop in Drama are useful in many different careers, including: communications and media, theatre, film, TV, radio, costume design, production, writing and teaching.

Career Pathways

To see what career areas this subject could lead to and the routes to get there, download and view these career pathways:

• Communications and Media
• Performing Arts

What do I need to get in?

This is at the discretion of the school/college but you would normally be expected to have attained:

• Higher Drama

What will I study?

The course consists of  two areas of study.

Drama Skills

• provide evidence to demonstrate your knowledge and skills in devising, directing and performing through the exploration of a key professional
• use your skills to create and present a devised drama
• evaluate your work.

Product Skills

• provide evidence to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of drama through the exploration of a key professional
• view and analyse a live theatrical event, considering performance concepts and effectiveness
• develop and apply production skills in your chosen role as either an actor or director or designer.

How will I be assessed?

Course assessment

The course assessment consists of  three  components totalling 100 marks :

• Component 1 - Project - dissertation (worth 30 marks)
• Component 2 - Assignment (worth 20 marks)
• Component 3 - Performance (worth 50 marks).

Project component  – You will choose an aspect of drama that interests you and carry out independent research. You should demonstrate your understanding of influential theatre practitioners and their impact on professional theatre practice, and performance theories, processes and practices within the context of their identified performance issue. The dissertation should be between 2500 and 3000 words.

Assignment component – You will analyse a professional theatrical production and the work of at least one theatre practitioner (actor, director, and/or designer) involved in the production. This could be of a live, live streamed, recorded live theatrical or historical performance - the chosen performance must be a play. The assignment has two stages: research and production of evidence.

Performance component  – You will have three options to choose from, of either acting, directing or design.

The project and assignment components will be externally assessed and marked by SQA.

The performance component will be marked by an SQA visiting assessor.

The grade awarded is based on the total marks achieved across course assessment.

The course assessment is graded A-D.

What can I go on to next?

Further study, training or employment in:

Which jobs are related to this subject?

• Drama - Related Careers

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Advanced Higher Drama

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Essential Information

Course specification ( 22/08/2024 ).

Explains the structure of the Course, including its purpose and aims and information on the skills, knowledge and understanding that will be developed.

• Advanced Higher Drama course specification August 2024

Past Papers and Marking Instructions

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Coursework ( 03/06/2024 )

This section provides information on marking instructions and/or the coursework assessment task(s). It includes information that centres need to administer coursework and must be read in conjunction with the course specification.

• Instructions for the submission of Advanced Higher Drama coursework (Assignment)   January 2024
• Advanced Higher Drama Assignment Answer Template November 2023
• Advanced Higher Drama Assignment Answer Template (Googe doc) January 2024
• Advanced Higher Drama Coursework Assessment Task Questions Assignment 2024-25   June 2024
• Advanced Higher Drama Coursework Assessment Task Project September 2023
• Advanced Higher Drama Coursework Assessment Task Performance September 2019
• Advanced Higher Drama Coursework Assessment Task Assignment June 2019
• Advanced Higher Drama Assignment Resource Sheet June 2019
• Advanced Higher Drama Assignment Resource Sheet (for printing) June 2019
• Guidance on conditions of assessment
• Coursework for External Assessment

Understanding Standards ( 27/11/2023 )

• Examples of candidate evidence with commentaries

Further Understanding Standards materials for this subject can be found on SQA’s secure website and you can access these through your SQA co-ordinator.

Webinar (recording)

Assignment (recording 16 November 2022)

• Download webinar
• Evidence (webinar supplementary files) (5.41 MB)
• Commentaries (webinar supplementary files) (117 KB)
• Webinar Q and A - Assignment Webinar (148 KB)

Performance Dissertation (recording 28 October 2021)

Changes to Understanding Standards materials

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Please note: Understanding Standards materials are regularly reviewed to ensure they remain up to date.

Additional resources session 2020-22

Further information can be found on the Understanding Standards Website.

Course reports ( 14/09/2023 )

Course reports.

• 2023 Advanced Higher Drama Course Report September 2023
• 2022 Advanced Higher Drama Course Report October 2022
• 2019 Advanced Higher Drama Course Report September 2019

Verification Reports

In 2019, a single qualification verification summary report replaced the verification key messages.

• Drama Quality Verification Summary Report Round 2 June 2023
• Drama Verification Key Messages Round 1   March 2018

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Advanced Higher Drama - project-dissertation

Project-dissertation 2023  (all links open as pdf files).

Please note: The materials published here were used at the Understanding Standards Drama Webinar in November 2023. A recording of this webinar and further examples of candidate commentary and evidence have been published on the SQA Secure Site . You can access these via your SQA Coordinator.

• How accurately is mental health represented in theatre? An analysis of modern playwrights and productions
• Candidate 1 Evidence
• Is Ivo Van Hove successful in his revival of classical plays?
• Candidate 2 Evidence
• To what degree can modern directors of Medea go against a failed Bechdel test to re-incarnate it as a feminist production?
• Candidate 3 Evidence
• Disability in theatre: Are actors no longer able to act?
• Candidate 4 Evidence
• Masculinity: Theatre as an exploratory medium
• Candidate 5 Evidence
• Can the depth of a novel ever be fully realised on stage?
• Candidate 6 Evidence
• Candidates 1 to 6 Commentaries

Project-dissertation 2019  (All links open as PDF files)

• Does Performance Execute the Playwright?
• Carrie Cracknell: is her radical feminist reclaiming of female protagonists taking away from the injustices portrayed in the original text?
• Do new plays successfully portray LGBT issues?
• Tragedy: how has it evolved?
• Oppression in Theatre: how did the Pinochet Dictatorship of 1973-1990 affect Chilean Theatre Companies' creativity, and what developments have been made in Theatre since the regime?
• Candidates 1 to 5 Commentaries
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