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. Early in your degree, you’ll choose introductory units that will help you experience your preferred majors or explore Indigenous perspectives.  Using this experience, you then decide upon a Bachelor of Creative Industries major from:

• creative and professional writing
• drama and performance
• entertainment
• fashion communication
• interactive and visual design 
• media and communication
• music and sound
• screen content production

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 animation, architectural studies, art and design history, industrial design studies, interiors, journalism, landscape design or visual communication.  Alternatively, you can add minors electives from across QUT (such as advertising, entrepreneurship, integrated marketing communication, marketing, online environments or public relations) to your chosen major to develop a wide breath of knowledge across several discipline areas.

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. Early in your degree, you’ll choose introductory units that will help you experience your preferred majors or explore Indigenous perspectives.  Using this experience, you then decide upon a Bachelor of Creative Industries major from:

• creative and professional writing
• drama and performance
• entertainment
• fashion communication
• interactive and visual design 
• media and communication
• music and sound
• screen content production

To complement your chosen major, you may select a second major from creative industries (all the primary majors listed above can be studied as second majors as well as animation, architectural studies, art and design history, industrial design studies, interiors, journalism, landscape design or visual communication).  Alternatively, you can add minors electives from across QUT (such as advertising, entrepreneurship, integrated marketing communication, marketing, online environments or public relations) 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.
• Data Science to use knowledge of data science tools and techniques to develop your own creative entrepreneurial niche.