ABSTRACT
GIRMAW ASHEBIR SINSHAW: A comparative analysis of theatre art curriculum
for undergraduate in Indonesia and Ethiopia. Thesis. Yogyakarta: Graduate
school, Yogyakarta State University, 2018.
This research aimed at described: their communality in the theater art
curriculum for undergraduate in both of Ethiopia and Indonesia the main objectives
are: (1) Exploring the difference between the theatre art curriculum for undergraduate
in of Ethiopia and Indonesia. (2) Discovering the simila…
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GIRMAW ASHEBIR SINSHAW: A comparative analysis of theatre art curriculum
for undergraduate in Indonesia and Ethiopia. Thesis. Yogyakarta: Graduate
school, Yogyakarta State University, 2018.
This research aimed at described: their communality in the theater art
curriculum for undergraduate in both of Ethiopia and Indonesia the main objectives
are: (1) Exploring the difference between the theatre art curriculum for undergraduate
in of Ethiopia and Indonesia. (2) Discovering the similarities between the curriculum
of undergraduate theatre art program of Ethiopia and Indonesia.
A descriptive qualitative research method was used for its research. It used
simple random sampling method to collect data from theatre art curriculum for
undergraduate program documents of Ethiopian and Indonesia. The data were
gathered by using two different techniques of data collection consisting of document
study and open-ended interviews. Document study is the main data collecting
technique and interview was used to support the primary technique. During the
document study method the data were gathered in library and privately from the
different lecturers and scholars that the relative document such like; books,
magazines, journals and research papers. The data consist of two types of curriculum
documents which are from Ethiopia and Indonesian theatre art curricula for
undergraduate program. These data was compared to examine the similarities and
difference in terms of the number of semesters, course, size of contents and the
graduate profiles.
The results of the research show that the theatre art curriculum for
undergraduate in Indonesia different from that of Ethiopia. The structures of course
arrangement, time management, the course content size, a number of courses and
credits are a big deference between these two curricula. Several Indonesian course
contents and names are similar to those in Ethiopia but the size of which are different.
The courses offered in Ethiopia curriculum are all in the form of course work, while,
in Indonesia students do the course work for seven semesters and the last semester is
for research. Indonesia has an elective course which is 14 credit hours, and in
Ethiopia there is no elective course. With regards to course matters and evaluation
methodology, the two countries theatre art curriculums share similarities in terms of
the structure, the content and subjective areas of the program. This research can
provide the benefit for multiple stakeholders for revising, preparing, evaluating and as
a reference for the next studies in the relevant field.