Bachelor of Creative Industries (Interactive Design) (Bedford Park)

Gain the skills you'll need to pursue a career as an interactive content creator. You'll be connected to industry from day one, with real-world work opportunities embedded into the degree. You'll explore a broad range of creative topics, including the methods required to create interactive experiences, and how to tailor your work to mass audiences using the latest technologies. You'll also have access to a wide range of electives from across the university, to help you find your unique path as an interactive content creator. Taught by leading, practising experts, you'll learn and put into practice skills in interactive art, programming and design, allowing you to work as an experienced content creator across a range of industries.

The Bachelor of Creative Industries (Interactive Design) aims to develop the creativity, strategic thinking, business capability and practical skills required for success in the creative and cultural industries sector and specifically in the design and development of games and interactive media. This degree promotes the ability to work adaptively with new media and disruptive technologies in a fast-changing technologically driven industry environment and will provide experience in working collaboratively, as part of an interdisciplinary creative team.

On completion of this degree students will be able to apply theories of creative production and cultural value to analyse games and interactive media and critically evaluate games and interactive media projects in terms of their feasibility, sustainability and cultural and societal outcomes. Students will develop and deliver creative industries projects while work independently and collaboratively with a range of partnership opportunities and funding sources for creative industries projects and events. Students will be able to interpret and critically evaluate contemporary policy for the creative arts and industries and combine skills in creative development, project management and marketing and apply them to delivering interactive media projects.

This degree prepares graduates for careers in games development and design. Potential occupations may include games designer, programmer and illustrator; potential employers may include game and software design companies.