梅西大学

If you love being creative and want to study a selection of theatre, performance, creative writing and digital media production courses, but you also want to ensure you have broader career prospects, the Bachelor of Communication (Expressive Arts) is for you.

If you love being creative and want to study a selection of theatre, performance, creative writing and digital media production courses, but you also want great career prospects the Bachelor of Communication (Expressive Arts) is for you.

Expressive arts is unique in New Zealand and was created in response to student demand. As part of your study, you will be able to choose from a range of activities such as devising, directing and writing theatre, writing creative works including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, writing for children, and screenplays, or filming and producing digital video.

Choose the creative discipline you love

Students told us they wanted a little bit of theatre, creative writing or digital media production, or some combination. But not necessarily to focus just on one. So we invented ‘expressive arts’. We call it the ‘triple dip’ major where you can add as much or as little as you like to your degree from any of the three creative discipline areas of theatre, creative writing, or digital media production. You choose what to emphasise, whether it’s one, two or all three of these areas.

Hands-on, relevant skills

As well as hands-on skills in various creative areas, you’ll learn leadership skills and how creativity fits into a professional communications role.

For example, you might write a travel memoir, produce a music video, or direct an experimental multi-media show based on your original script. You might use techniques of improvisational theatre as a way of unlocking and managing your creativity across other media including creative writing. You might find yourself crafting Twitter poetry or learning how your posture communicates instantly to others.

Devise, direct and write

As part of your study you will be able to devise, direct, write and produce theatre, creative writing and/or digital video productions.

Careers

Surveys have shown that today’s employers seek graduates who are collaborative, creative and can communicate well. They want staff who can give compelling presentations, problem-solve creatively, think originally, analyse perceptively, communicate effectively (both in person and on paper) and work well in teams. They especially want ‘creative disruptors’ in the sense of people who use their imagination to see things differently and propose new alternatives.

Learn these skills through expressive arts. When combined with the communication and corporate skills that you learn through your Bachelor of Communication you will have a qualification that can be applied across an amazing range of roles.

Graduates with an expressive arts major are working today in:

• government outreach
• social media management
• arts publicity
• human resources
• advertising
• marketing and public relations
• filmmaking
• television and journalism
• teaching
• theatre and entertainment, and
• creative and professional writing.

This major

Completing a major is compulsory. The Expressive Arts major requires 120 credits including at least 60 credits at 200 level and 60 credits at 300 level.