Bachelor of Creative Industries

Highlights

• Build a unique creative career that taps into your passions and aspirations.
• Prepare to turn creative employment and entrepreneurial opportunities into real career outcomes.
• Learn through industry partnerships and networking, and interdisciplinary work.
• Choose from one of eight first majors to develop your creative thinking and innovation.
• Tailor your degree to suit your area of interest, with some majors available in online study mode.

Why choose this course?

Problem solving, critical thinking and innovation are now the top three skills employers look for and these vital skills can be applied to a wide range of commercial organisations. The first degree of its kind, our Bachelor of Creative Industries (BCI) allows you to develop your own creative niche by providing diverse knowledge, creativity and practical skills across a range of selected creative disciplines.

The Bachelor of Creative Industries can help you to develop your own creative niche across a range of majors, with the agility you need to keep creating, adapting and innovating as the world continues to evolve.

Flexible delivery

The course offers flexibility by allowing you to choose a combination of study areas to suit your individual creative interests and career aspirations.

Early in your degree, you’ll choose introductory units that will help you experience your preferred majors or explore Indigenous perspectives. Using this experience, you then decide upon a Bachelor of Creative Industries major from:

• creative and professional writing
• drama and performance
• entertainment
• fashion communication
• interactive and visual design
• media and communication
• music and sound
• screencontent production

To complement your chosen major, you may select a second major from creative industries (all the primary majors listed above can be studied as second majors as well as animation, architectural studies, art and design history, industrial design studies, interiors, journalism, landscape design or visual communication).

Alternatively, you can add minors electives from across QUT (such asadvertising, entrepreneurship, integrated marketing communication, marketing, online environments or public relations)to your chosen majorto develop a wide breath of knowledge across several discipline areas.

Careers and outcomes

This course equips you with the creative skills, knowledge and connections to pursue a career in the creative industries and beyond. Some career options are:

• events and festivals coordinator/producer-an entertainment major with additional studies in film, entrepreneurship, public relations, or tourism and entertainment marketing
• digital communicator-majors in interactive and visual design, and advertising, or media and communication
• fashion marketer-a major in fashion communication with additional studies in media and communication, digital media, marketing or public relations
• media producer-a major in media and communication with additional studies in digital media, entertainment, management or interactive and visual design
• qualified teacher-studies in dance; drama; film, television and screen; music; visual arts; combined with a Master of Teaching.