Bachelor of Creative Arts

Through our Bachelor of Creative Arts, you can explore your creative passions and will develop a professional skillset that's easily transferable across a range of careers within the creative industries.

Select two major areas of focus aligned to your interests and career goals. Common core courses will broaden your knowledge of the contemporary arts and cultural sector and build your entrepreneurial skills, so you'll graduate ready to step into your career.

Real-world experience is a key focus of this degree. You'll gain hands-on experience collaborating with students across other creative disciplines to solve real-world challenges.

Learn how to shape your creative identity with a entrepreneurial mindset. Develop your critical thinking skills to evaluate the role cultural industries play in our society. Graduate as a culturally conscious, creative professional.

What you'll learn

Flexible by nature, our Bachelor of Creative Arts gives you creative licence over your degree. You may choose two majors from our range of specialist disciplines.

Majors

Majors are available in:

• Comicbook Creation

Take your artistic techniques, character development and storytelling to the next level, learning how to take the first spark of an idea through each step of development to create a comicbook.

• Creative Industries

Learn about the role creative industries, arts and culture play in our society and how to advocate for them within political, economic and social frameworks.

• Creative Writing

Develop your skills across a range of literary forms and genres, learning how to express ideas and respond imaginatively to the world around you.

• Digital Media and Web Design

Become a skilled creator of digital media and learn how to design interfaces, websites and new kinds of interactive experiences.

• Festivals

Explore the value of festivals in our community and gain skills in festival curation, budgeting, audience experience, volunteer and artist management, and more.

• Games Design and Production

Learn theories, tools and techniques for games and interactive media development, and develop the skills to create compelling stories for a range of platforms and formats.

• Immersive Media

Get hands-on experience using virtual, mixed and augmented reality technologies and discover how they're changing the way we deliver and consume content.

• Performing Arts

Take your performance skills to the next level, get experience onstage and backstage to open doors to careers in acting, directing, programming, producing, stage management or arts administration.

• Screen Production

Learn how to create content across a range of mediums and screen formats, including narrative-based film, animation and experimental media, from concept design through to post-production.

You can choose to major in any two of these subject areas. Or, you can select a primary major from the list above, plus a complementary major offered through the Bachelor of Arts or the Bachelor of Media and Communication.

Whatever path you choose, throughout your degree you'll take common core courses to build your creative thinking, problem-solving and collaborative skills.

Get hands-on experience to find creative solutions to cultural challenges, building your industry connections and experience.