Bachelor of Creative Arts
Bachelor of Creative Arts
Creative industries are a core part of Australia’s emerging services economy, and creative practitioners and innovators are increasingly finding themselves working and collaborating across boundaries. Bond’s Bachelor of Creative Arts is an innovative program that tailors its offerings to a student’s unique ambitions and interests. The personalised nature of the…
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Creative industries are a core part of Australia’s emerging services economy, and creative practitioners and innovators are increasingly finding themselves working and collaborating across boundaries.
Bond’s Bachelor of Creative Arts is an innovative program that tailors its offerings to a student’s unique ambitions and interests. The personalised nature of the program will empower you to identify your own ambitions, and equip you with the required skills, understanding, and practice to navigate existing pathways—or design your own.
Within your creative specialisation, you will benefit from a hands-on, project-based approach to learning, where you will be encouraged to develop industry relationships, undertake creative internships, and practice, and publish works within your chosen creative niches. This flexible program enables students to ground their creative endeavours within a third major.
The Bachelor of Creative Arts is an innovative program that tailors its offerings to students’ unique ambitions and interests. The personalised nature of the program empowers students to identify their ambitions, and then equips them with the skills, theory and practice to navigate existing pathways—or design their own. All students begin with creative writing subjects to develop a range of foundation skills in creative thinking and narrative. Students also select a specialist creative major (Advertising; Communication & Society; Corporate Storytelling; Digital Media; Film & Television; Journalism; Media Studies; Public Relations, or Social Media). Within their creative specialisation, students learn through a hands-on, project-based approach to learning, where they are encouraged to develop industry relationships, undertake creative internships, and practice and publish within their chosen creative niches. Finally, the flexible program enables students to ground their creative endeavours within a third major. A creative entrepreneur may pursue a business major, an aspiring thriller writer might study criminology, or a documentary filmmaker might study international relations to better understand working in a non–profit organisation. In the final stages of their degree, students will have the opportunity to develop a substantial creative project, which will knit what they have learned into a major portfolio showcasing their skills and talents.
What can you do with your degree?
A recent SGS Economics and Planning report revealed that the Australian creative industries sector contributes more than $90 billion to the national economy and exports $3.2 billion annually. The creative sector employs more than 600,000 people in Australia with over 263,500 of them working in non-creative industries, which highlights the clear demand for cross-disciplinary skills. Graduates of this program will be equipped with the technical and creative skills for problem-solving, the ability to craft narratives that resonate with audiences, an understanding of the market and cultural forces that drive the creative industries, a command for the technologies of new-media storytelling, and the flexibility to apply their creative practice to a range of industries and roles.
Program learning outcomes
Program Learning Outcomes provide a broad and measurable set of standards that incorporate a range of knowledge, skills and abilities that will be achieved on completion of the program. These outcomes will help you determine whether this program aligns with your professional pathway, career and learning goals.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Bond University is a private university located on the Gold Coast, Queensland. It was established in 1989. Bond provides students with a high-quality, individualised study experience. Students learn under the mentorship of world-class, industry leading academics, and receive a fast-paced, well-rounded education with unparalleled access to resources and professional development opportunities. For 16 years, Bond has stood strong as Australia’s number one university for student experience (according to the Good Universities Guide). The university offers programs in the fields of Actuarial Science and Data Analytics; Architecture; Business and Tourism Management; Commerce and Entrepreneurship; Communication, Film and Creative Media; Construction, Property and Planning; Health, Biomedical and Sport Sciences; International Relations, Politics and Arts; Law; Medicine; Project Management and Innovation; Psychology, Criminology and Social Sciences. The university awards bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in various fields.
