CREATIVE INDUSTRIES A GUIDE TO UNDERGRADUATE STUDY 2021 BACHELOR OF CREATIVE PRACTICE COMMUNICATION CREATIVE INDUSTRIES Acting Advertising and public relations Creative and Animation Digital media professional writing Creative writing Entertainment industries Drama and performance Dance Journalism Entertainment Dance performance Professional communication Fashion communication Drama Interactive and DESIGN visual design Film, screen and Architecture new media Media and communication Fashion Music Music and sound Industrial design Technical production Screen content production Interaction design Visual arts Interior architecture Landscape architecture Visual communication Today, in every field, creativity is essential. It opens the door to new discoveries. It shows the way forward. It defines and redefines a changing world. QUT is embracing the future of creativity. We give you the skills and connections you need today and the career agility you need for the future. That’s why QUT graduates are in demand. Creativity for a changing world QUT’s Creative Industries Faculty is a world leader in creative practice, communication and design teaching, and research. We create, communicate and design towards a future driven by knowledge and technology. We recognise the important contribution First Nations people make to the creative and cultural life of Australia. Read on to see how we’ll prepare you for the future. Take the quiz If you are still considering your study options, take the Match My Skills quiz to find a future that matches your interests and skills. The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) acknowledges the Turrbal and Yugara, as the First Nations owners of the lands where QUT now stands. We pay respect to their Elders, lores, customs and creation spirits. We recognise that these have always been places of teaching, research and learning. QUT acknowledges the important role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people play within the QUT community. Contents 02 Why study with us? 04 Learn in a creative and supportive environment 06 Be part of the creative economy 08 Supporting innovation 08 Opening doors to opportunity 09 Go global 11 Bachelor of Creative Industries 15 Bachelor of Creative Industries double degrees 17 Bachelor of Fine Arts 18 Acting 19 Animation 20 Creative writing 21 Dance 22 Dance performance 23 Drama 24 Film, screen and new media 25 Music 26 Technical production 27 Visual arts 29 Fine arts double degrees 31 Bachelor of Communication 32 Advertising and public relations 33 Digital media 34 Entertainment industries 35 Journalism 37 Professional communication 38 Communication double degrees 41 Bachelor of Design 42 Architecture 43 Fashion 44 Industrial design 45 Interaction design 46 Interior architecture 47 Landscape architecture 48 Visual communication 49 Design—International 50 Design double degrees 52 Your application 54 Creative industries at a glance Students from animation, dance and technical production study areas combine to create the Dance 19 showcase performance 3 schools 90+ course $88 million #1 in in the Creative options expansion making Queensland Industries Faculty offering the largest the Creative for full-time that create, range of degrees Industries Precinct graduate communicate and across creative the most employment design towards a practice, technically advanced outcomes in future driven by communication and creative space in creative arts knowledge design in Australia the country and technology QILT Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS) 2017-2019 2 500+ 150+ $180 000 World-class industry partners partner institutions in Creative Industries research centres for real-world in 35 countries Excellence that help society practical experience Scholarships on understand and offer for an adapt to the outstanding changing world audition or portfolio Why study with us? 3 Learn in a creative and supportive environment By studying at QUT Creative Industries Kelvin Grove Gardens Point you will have access to industry-standard 18 000 students. 29 000 students. facilities and state-of-the-art spaces for learning, performing and creating. QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus is part of QUT’s Gardens Point campus is located the Kelvin Grove Village and is just three right in the heart of Brisbane, adjacent Our Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove kilometres from Brisbane’s CBD. to the City Botanic Gardens. campuses are the perfect environments for collaboration and hands-on creativity. The study areas within the Schools of Gardens Point is home to QUT’s Creative Practice and Communication internationally renowned School of The quality of life on campus is are based at Kelvin Grove campus in Design, within the Creative Industries enhanced by cultural precincts, theatres QUT’s world-leading Creative Industries Faculty, which offers the largest range and exhibition spaces. Enjoy the cafés Precinct. You may undertake some of design disciplines in Australia. and food courts, access childcare classes at Gardens Point campus, As a design student, you’ll enjoy facilities, and medical and fitness depending on your study choices. convenient access to world-class centres. Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove studios, fabrication workshops, lecture campuses are linked by free shuttle The Creative Industries Precinct is spaces and collaborative learning buses and easily accessible by public also home to QUT Creative Enterprise environments. You may undertake transport. To learn more, visit Australia—Australia’s only dedicated some classes at Kelvin Grove campus qut.edu.au/campuses-and-facilities creative industries accelerator—which depending on your study choices. leads commercial development and assists startup small and medium creative businesses. Photogrammetry and motion capture Visual art studio Design workshop 4 Audio suites for podcasts Technical production spaces Student support • leadership and development such as World-leading Creative attending workshops, conferences A common misconception about Industries Precinct and volunteering on campus to university is that you have to do it ‘on An $88 million expansion of QUT’s understand your leadership style, your own’. You will be relieved to know Creative Industries Precinct at Kelvin skills and strengths that QUT offers many proactive and Grove in 2016 made it the first site in • HiQ support centres that are your one timely support services to help you Australia to be dedicated to creative place to go for all general enquiries succeed. You will have access to a education, experimentation and including application, enrolment, range of free services within your course commercial development. The most admission, fee and library assistance content and outside of class including: technically advanced creative space in • LGBTIQA+ support including the Australia, the precinct contains world- • language and learning support such QUT Guild and Queer Collective that class acting, dance, drama, visual arts as writing and assignment feedback, have a strong history of representing and music studio spaces, performance study and presentation skills diversity on campus and contributing venues and creative research labs. It • IT, maths and science support such to a safe, fair and equitable is an outstanding facility for learning, as understanding course content, experience for all students teaching and researching in the visual developing STEM skills and guidance • dedicated study spaces, tutors, and performing arts, creative arts with assessment items cultural support and scholarships for events and exhibitions. • career management skills that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander put you in charge of your future students through the Oodgeroo Unit. and enable you to investigate career options while building your employability Connect with us Stay connected through our social channels or get to know our graduate, staff and student work and achievements on No Walls. nowalls.qut.edu.au twitter.com/CreativeIndust instagram.com/qutcreativeindustries facebook.com/QUTCreativeIndustries youtube.com/TheQUTube #QUTcreate #QUTdesign #QUTcommunicate 5 Modern learning spaces Be part of the creative economy QUT Creative Industries will prepare you Creative projects to join over 600,000 people currently Projects provide you with opportunities employed in the creative workforce. to work in a team of students on a You will graduate with unique and professional industry-based project employable skill sets across creativity, with a creative outcome for a real entrepreneurship and technology. You client. Creative industries students get will have the opportunity to work directly involved in a range of projects including on real-world projects, gain valuable reporting for a Pacific region journalism experience with internships and be part project, Americana Festival, Beijing of project opportunities both in Australia Dance Festival, Marché International and overseas. des Programes de Television in Cannes, Mumbrella and Out of the Box children’s Work integrated learning festival. Community engagement Employers look for graduates who have projects have included TradeMutt relevant industry experience and are (men’s mental health), Red Frogs familiar with workplace culture. That’s Australia (supporting and safeguarding why we give you the opportunity to young people), Kids Helpline (phone Creating future fashion undertake work integrated learning counselling), 3rd Space (homeless with industry and community partners, support), Multicap (high-needs disability nationally and internationally. This will support), A Brave