Bachelor of Creative Industries

Bachelor

A Bachelor of Creative Industries degree provides students with the opportunity to shape their work in line with socio-cultural environments and cutting-edge innovations.

Key details

Degree Type

Bachelor

Duration

3 years full-time, 8 years part-time

Course Code

40041, 092847B

Study Mode

In person

International Fees

$33,480 per year / $100,440 total

About this course

A Bachelor of Creative Industries degree provides students with the opportunity to shape their work in line with socio-cultural environments and cutting-edge innovations. The program offers students the choice to specialise in a chosen field of individual creative interest in the areas of Communication and Media, Creative and Performing Arts, Design, Information Technology, Music, Visual Art-Imaging Technologies, Visual Art-Studio Practices, and Writing and Publishing. These specialisations are built around a core of critical courses rich in entrepreneurial activity, business skills, digital literacies and social innovation. Students are encouraged to develop professional networks and work with a range of stakeholders and audiences. By the end of the program students will have attained sought-after skills for future employment and entrepreneurial capacity.

Study locations

Newcastle City

What you will learn

On successful completion of the program students will have:

A broad and coherent body of knowledge, with depth in the underlying principles and concepts in one or more disciplines as a basis for independent lifelong learning
A well-developed contextual understanding of the creative industries and the confidence to contribute creatively across a diverse range of social, cultural, economic and political environments
A responsible and adaptable ability to connect and collaborate across a diversity of local and global creative networks.
A demonstrated understanding of business and economic practices appropriate to the creative industries.
Cognitive skills to review critically, analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge.
Cognitive and technical skills to demonstrate a broad understanding of knowledge with depth in some areas.
Cognitive and creative skills to exercise critical thinking and judgement in identifying and solving problems with intellectual independence.
Communication skills to present a clear, coherent and independent exposition of knowledge and ideas.
Demonstrated the application of knowledge and skills with initiative and judgement in planning, problem solving and decision making in professional practice and/or scholarship
Demonstrated the application of knowledge and skills to adapt knowledge and skills in diverse contexts.
Demonstrated the application of knowledge and skills with responsibility and accountability for own learning and professional practice in collaboration with others within broad parameters.
Well-developed understanding and application of imaginative, critical and conceptual approaches to innovative thinking and creative production.

University of Newcastle