Creative Industries, Bachelor

You can’t pigeon-hole creativity. That’s why QUT has designed a degree that combines a range of interdisciplinary skills. The Bachelor of Creative Industries lets you dive into a melting pot of amazing possibilities and absorb the aspects of creativity that are right for you. It sets you up with skills and experiences to create your own opportunities and career outcomes in the creative sector and beyond.

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. Start your degree in either February or July, and study full-time for three years or the part-time equivalent.  You can choose your first major from:

• Creative and professional writing - gain skills and knowledge in the areas of creative or professional writing, including fiction, creative non-fiction, media writing, and corporate writing and editing. 
• Fashion communication - learn how fashion is communicated, marketed and distributed across a diverse range of contexts and media.  This major prepares you for current and future careers in  the global fashion industry.
• Interactive and visual design - learn skills and knowledge in the domain of interactive and visual design, including graphic design, image making, information design, web design and designing interfaces for future technologies.
• Screen content production - develop a range of knowledge in the theory and practice of film and screen, including creative, technical, storytelling and communication skills to set you up for a career in advertising, publicity or marketing.

To complement your chosen major, you may select a second major. All the primary majors listed above can be studied as second majors as well as advertising, integrated marketing communication, marketing, public relations, entrepreneurship and innovation, games design, online environments and property experience. Alternatively, you can add minors electives from across QUT to your chosen major to develop a wide breath of knowledge across several discipline areas.   

Double degrees

Combine two bachelor degrees into a single course of study. A double degree allows you to specialise in two fields and pursue different interest areas, gaining a broader range of skills and knowledge, and giving you a competitive advantage and greater career flexibility. This is a popular option for students seeking careers in support roles within the creative industries, or those wanting to work in creative, design or communication roles within other industries. Consider a double degree with Creative Industries in:

• Business to gain knowledge and skills to add business acumen to creative endeavours, and creative flair to traditional organisations. Careers include entertainment industries producer, events manager, creative entrepreneur or social media marketer.
• Law where your creative industries and legal qualifications position you for a career as an in-house lawyer for cultural institutions, government or regulatory bodies, or as a lawyer with special interests in creative industries.
• Human Services (Health) and use your expertise in careers in youth arts, disability arts, rehabilitation in corrective services, or community and cultural development.
• Information Technology merging your creative and imaginative skills with sophisticated and innovative critical thinking will give you opportunities in content production, communications, graphic design and games development.

Pathways

Graduates of the course/s listed below will be automatically offered a place and gain up to 1 year of credit for prior learning (advanced standing) for the Bachelor of Creative Industries.

• Diploma in Creative Industries  
• Diploma in Creative Industries/Bachelor of Creative Industries
• Diploma in Entrepreneurship
• Diploma in Entrepreneurship/Bachelor of Creative Industries  
• Diploma in Esports
• Diploma in Esports/Bachelor of Creative Industries