昆士兰科技大学

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.?
• Focus on your creative professional identity, career development and entrepreneurship.
• Develop your creative thinking and innovation, and project management skills.
• Learn through industry partnerships and networking, and interdisciplinary work.

Why choose this course?

Our world is increasingly interconnected. To make the most of this complexity, successful careers require a breadth of skills and knowledge in more than one discipline area. In the creative industries sector this is particularly the case, with the need for adaptable, cutting-edge, multidisciplinary capabilities along with 21st century career and enterprise skills.

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.

Real-world learning

You’ll be prepared for the real world with studio-based learning, skills in entrepreneurship, real industry challenges, work integrated learning (WIL) opportunities and links to creative start-ups. With a focus on transferable skills in enterprise and entrepreneurship, working on projects with industry partners like Creative Enterprise Australia, Lendlease, Brisbane Powerhouse, transdisciplinary studio-based experiences, and a common final year capstone experience, you’ll have a head start to succeed in a career with flexibility.

This course equips you with the creative skills, knowledge and connections to pursue a career in the creative industries and beyond. You will follow a core pathway that develops your skills, expertise, knowledge and experience, with a focus on:

• creative professional identity
• career development and entrepreneurship
• creative thinking and innovation
• project management
• industry partnerships and networking
• interdisciplinary work.

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.

Possible careers

Branding Specialist
Campaign Manager
Communication Strategist
Creative Entrepreneur
Creative Writer
Digital Communication Specialist
Digital Content Producer
Drama Teacher
Entertainment Entrepreneur
Events and Festivals Coordinator
Fashion Marketer
Graphic Designer
Media Producer
Media or Communications Adviser
Multimedia Designer
Music Agent
Music Publisher
Organisational Communication Specialist
Publicist
Stage Manager
Theatre Professionals
Web Designer