Highlights
- All new degree with the ability to expand your skillset with a second major, minors and/or extensions and electives.
- Unique course structure allows you to combine creative disciplines together to develop transferable skills across a range of industries.
- Learn in some of Australia's most technically advanced facilities and award-winning creative spaces.
- Build a portfolio of new work and collaborate on innovative projects that showcase your creative and critical skills.
Real-world learning
From your first year of study, you'll collaborate with students and teaching staff from across disciplines and work on real-world projects briefed by real clients, along with career planning assistance to help you on your creative journey.
As your course progresses, you'll have opportunities to showcase your work and make meaningful industry connections through:
- work integrated learning
- internships
- international study tours
- public performances
- exhibitions.
You'll also participate in project-based learning experiences (situated creative practice units) collaborating with other students and external partners.
World-class creative facilities
Based at QUT's Kelvin Grove campus, you will develop your creativity and collaborate in some of Australia's most technically advanced creative facilities at the Creative Industries Precinct. These spaces are highly sophisticated experimental zones for artists, designers, technologists and entrepreneurs, where they come together to collaborate, learn and innovate.
Housing purpose-built teaching and learning spaces, the Creative Industries Precinct includes:
- visual art, music, dance and performance studios
- digital fabrication workshop
- art galleries and exhibition spaces
- professional music recording studios
- specialist computing labs for animation and virtual reality, music, and creative arts technologies
- motion capture facilities for animation
- film and television studios
- state of the art virtual production studio
- post-production and editing suites
What you'll study
The new QUT Creative Arts degree helps you to curate your own career, with its built-in flexibility providing you with multiple opportunities to extend and expand your creative practice.
You will study a major with disciplinary units focused on specialist knowledge in your chosen field, alongside a set of cross-disciplinary common units that develop key creative, critical and professional skills to prepare you for a range of creative roles and career pathways. In your final year of study, you will engage with industry through real-world, public-facing projects as a collaborative creative practitioner.
Your degree features:
- six common units that develop key creative, critical and professional skills that interconnect the creative arts
- Study an eight unit major, focused on developing your skills and practicing your craft
- eight complimentary units that allow you to either:
- extend your creative skills through a suite of creative arts specialisation electives
- or diversify your skills through studying a second creative arts major or a combination of university wide majors, and minors.
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two QUT You units, an innovative new university-wide curriculum designed to prepare you for a rapidly changing future;
Bachelor of Creative Arts double degrees
Increase your graduate pathways and employability by combining your Bachelor of Creative Arts degree with another degree.
- Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Creative Arts
- Bachelor of Creative Arts/Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology)
- Bachelor of Education (Secondary) / Bachelor of Creative Arts (unavailable with animation major)
- Bachelor of Creative Arts/Bachelor of Law
Double degrees cannot be taken with the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Acting)
Highlights
- All-new flexible degree with the ability to expand your skillset across a range of industries with a second major, minors and/or extensions and electives.
- Learn in some of Australia's most technically advanced facilities and award-winning creative spaces.
- Build a portfolio of diverse, real-world projects, showcasing your creative and critical skills.
- Participate in project-based learning experiences (situated creative practice units) collaborating with other students and external partners.
- Receive career-planning assistance to help you on your creative journey.
- Showcase your work and connect with industry through:
- work-integrated learning
- internships
- international study tours
- public performances and exhibitions.
World-class creative facilities
Based at QUT's Kelvin Grove campus, you will develop your creativity and collaborate in some of Australia's most technically advanced creative facilities at the Creative Industries Precinct.
Housing purpose-built teaching, learning and experimental spaces for artists, designers, technologists and entrepreneurs, the Creative Industries Precinct includes:
- visual art, music, dance and performance studios
- digital fabrication workshop
- art galleries and exhibition spaces
- professional music recording studios
- specialist computing labs for animation and virtual reality, music, and creative arts technologies
- motion capture facilities for animation
- film and television studios
- state of the art virtual production studio
- post-production and editing suites
Flexible course options
The new QUT Creative Arts degree helps you curate your career with a flexible structure that allows you to expand your creative practice.
Your degree features:
- six common units that develop key creative, critical and professional skills that interconnect the creative arts
- an eight-unit major, focused on developing your skills and practicing your craft
- eight complimentary units that allow you to either:
- extend your creative skills through a suite of creative arts specialisation electives
- or diversify your skills through studying a second creative arts major or a combination of university wide majors and minors.
- two QUT You units, an innovative new university-wide curriculum designed to prepare you for a rapidly changing future
- situated creative practice units: real-world, public-facing projects in your final year that connect you with industry as a creative practitioner.
Bachelor of Creative Arts double degrees
Increase your graduate pathways and employability by combining your Bachelor of Creative Arts with another degree in our range of double degrees.
How to apply to the Bachelor of Creative Arts
Choose one of the following first majors and then expand your skillset with a second major, minors and/or extensions and electives to customise your degree to suit you.
If you are interested in studying the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Acting) then auditions are required. Please see course page for further details.
Course pathway options
Graduates of the course/s listed below will be automatically offered a place in the Bachelor of Creative Arts.
Why QUT
Hands-on learning
Gain skills and confidence for your career with a curriculum that prioritises hands-on learning and real industry projects.
Build your network
Connect with motivated professionals and learn from award-winning lecturers who are experts in their field.
Industry experience
Gain experience with leading organisations through our work-integrated learning program.
Hands-on practical learning
'I chose to study creative arts at QUT because the course has a combination of hands-on practical and knowledge-based learning opportunities. My favourite part of the course is being able to collaborate and produce creative work for external clients.'
Creative arts graduate
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