Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Fine Arts (Creative Writing)

Bachelor

Combine business and creative writing to gain a competitive advantage in careers as a creative writer, publishing professional or public relations consultant.

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Key details

Degree Type

Bachelor

Duration

4 years full-time

Course Code

409432, 064813M

Study Mode

In person

Intake Months

Feb, Jul

ATAR

70

About this course

Highlights

Work creatively on writing novels, poetry, short stories, creative non-fiction, memoir, and genre fiction.
Work towards a year-long major piece of creative writing in a form and genre of your choice.
Gain insight into the national contexts into which your writing will enter as well as the debates and ideas that are enlivening and challenging the ways in which writers create.
Learn about central ideas from literary theory and ways to think and write critically about texts.
Learn from highly experienced and published authors, scholars, and experts in creative writing.
Gain opportunities for exposure with internships at writers' festivals, literary events, publishing houses, and public readings.
Graduates work as fiction writers, editors, embedded creatives in technical and corporate contexts, technical writers, script writers, reviewers, travel writers, feature writers, journalists, publishers, media workers, policy workers, government employees and teachers.
Complement your writing skills with a business major in accounting, advertising, economics, finance, financial planning, human resource management, international business, management, marketing or public relations.

Highlights

Work creatively on writing novels, poetry, short stories, creative non-fiction, memoir, and genre fiction.
Work towards a year-long major piece of creative writing in a form and genre of your choice.
Gain insight into the national contexts into which your writing will enter as well as the debates and ideas that are enlivening and challenging the ways in which writers create.
Learn about central ideas from literary theory and ways to think and write critically about texts.
Learn from highly experienced and published authors, scholars, and experts in creative writing.
Gain opportunities for exposure with internships at writers' festivals, literary events, publishing houses, and public readings.
Graduates work as fiction writers, editors, embedded creatives in technical and corporate contexts, technical writers, script writers, reviewers, travel writers, feature writers, journalists, publishers, media workers, policy workers, government employees and teachers.
Complement your writing skills with a business major in accounting, advertising, economics, finance, financial planning, human resource management, international business, management, marketing or public relations.

Entry requirements

Year 12 early offer scheme

If you're a current Queensland Year 12 student you may be eligible to receive an offer for this course on the last day of Queensland Year 12 before receiving your ATAR or selection rank.

Find out more about the QUT Year 12 Early Offer Scheme

Study locations

Kelvin Grove

Gardens Point

What you will learn

We live in a world saturated with written content. Writers are in demand by the publishing and screen industries advertising agencies marketing and social media agencies magazines and newspapers and throughout the technical and corporate world. More than 10000 new books are published in Australia every year and more local authors than ever are having success in print and digital media as well as in forms and contexts that are rapidly evolving.

In this course you will work intensively on your writing in a number of forms including novels short stories creative non-fiction memoir genre writing and poetry. You will develop comprehensive editing skills as well as self-editing skills. You will learn about and engage with local writing contexts as well as enter contemporary debates around ideas that illuminate and challenge what people write and how they write it. You will learn to think and write critically about texts. You will learn how to engage readers through emotional story telling. You will progress towards a major piece of creative writing in a form and genre of your choice at the end of your degree

as well as work on team projects with creatives from other disciplines throughout your degree.

Career pathways

Careers and outcomes

Graduates can work as writers and editors in corporate community and freelance capacities. Your business major will provide additional career opportunities and provide you with business skills to develop your career as a creative writer publishing professional or public relations consultant.

Professional recognition

Students may be eligible for membership to a number of professional bodies depending on choice of major and unit selection in their business degree. Details on professional recognition can be found under the individual majors of the Bachelor of Business (BS05).

Research pathways Bachelor of Business (Honours) option

High-achieving students who wish to take further studies may enrol in BS63 Bachelor of Business (Honours).

Possible careers

Academic
Account executive
Advertising professional
Advertising and new media professional
Art writer
Arts administrator
Copywriter
Creative writer
International business specialist
Manager
Market research manager
Marketing officer/manager
Media industry specialist
Media or communications adviser
Organisational communication specialist
Project manager
Public relations officer/consultant
Publicist
Publisher
Publishing professional

Course structure

Your course

In order to complete this course you must complete a total of 384 credit points made up of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Business and 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Fine Arts. You will undertake the two components of the double degree concurrently.

Business component

The business component is made up of 96 credit points of Business School core units and 96 credit points of units from a business major. The business majors are accounting advertising economics finance financial planning human resource management international business management marketing and public relations. Accounting students will complete 10 major units and six Business School core units in order to meet professional recognition requirements.

Fine arts component

You will complete two common units (24 credit points) and a fine arts major (168 credit points) in creative writing.

Study overseas

Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners.

Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in either degree area depending on how they match with your QUT course.