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University of Canberra

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Bachelor of Creative Industries (Acting and Performance)

  • Bachelor

Pursue your dreams of acting and performance

Discover the craft of acting and performance with a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Acting and Performance).

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor
Study Mode
Online
Intake Months
Feb

About this course

Pursue your dreams of acting and performance

Discover the craft of acting and performance with a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Acting and Performance). Thanks to our partnership with TAFE Queensland, you'll be prepared with the skills, knowledge, and outlook to build a sustainable career in the Performing Arts industry. The course offers lively, detailed, and focused training in acting, voice and body skills; regular performance opportunities to play to live audiences; intense development of the acting student's creative voice as an independent performance maker. Plays, readings, online resources, and academic materials are designed to inspire, challenge and motivate you.

Complete your degree at our TAFE Queensland Brisbane campus where you'll build the foundations of your career and upon graduation, you'll be ready to jump into a career, anywhere you choose.


Study a Bachelor of Acting and Performance at UC and you will:
  • Develop a range of highly advanced practical skills and specialised knowledge.
  • Gain lively, detailed and focused training in acting, voice and body skills and gives students regular performance opportunities to perform for live audiences.
  • Unleash your creative voice as an independent performance maker and develop as an actor and performer who thinks for themselves and respects their own ideas and ideals.
  • Gain exposure to plays, readings, online resources and academic materials that have been designed to inspire, challenge and motivate the training actor.

The program is tailored for those students who want to engage in a professional career as a stage or film actor, performing artist or performance maker.

Work Integrated Learning

You'll be encouraged and supported to find relative work placements, enabling you to experience the reality of working within the industry or a particular company, and the opportunity to build useful networks for a future career.

Career opportunities
  • Director
  • Playwriting
  • Actor/Actress
  • Producer
  • Voice-over artist
  • Arts facilitator
  • Performer
Course Specific information

Standard entry to this program is by audition only.

Entry requirements

Admission to this course is based on an entrance rank. A rank can be achieved by the following means:
- Year 12 ATAR
- diploma pathway
- other Australian Qualification
- work experience
- overseas qualification

We also offer a number of entry initiatives that give you the opportunity to gain entry to the University via alternate pathway programs and admissions schemes.

More information is available on our Alternative Entry page: http://www.canberra.edu.au/future-students/applications/apply-now/alternative-entry

Additional admission requirements

Audition + Portfolio

Assumed knowledge

Practical experience in the performing arts e.g. schooling, private or community training.

Periods course is open for new admissions
Year Location Teaching period Teaching start date Domestic International
2024 South Bank, QLD Semester 1 05 February 2024
2025 South Bank, QLD Semester 1 03 February 2025
2026 South Bank, QLD Semester 1 02 February 2026
Credit arrangements

There are currently no formal credit transfer arrangements for entry to this course. Any previous study or work experience will only be considered as part of the application process in accordance with current course rules and university policy.

Study locations

Online

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Creative Arts courses at University of Canberra.
75.9%
Overall satisfaction
80.1%
Skill scale
73.8%
Teaching scale
45.3%
Employed full-time
$58k
Average salary