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- Complete two separate degrees in four and a half years full-time.
- Choose two teaching areas: one from six creative arts majors and another from a different creative arts major or English, history, geography or mathematics.
- Gain extensive classroom experience through professional experience placements organised by QUT.
- Access a breadth of materials from Queensland’s No. 1 university for education learning resources.
Highlights
- Complete two separate degrees in four and a half years full-time.
- Choose two teaching areas: one from six creative arts majors and another from a different creative arts major or English, history, geography, or mathematics.
- Gain extensive classroom experience through professional experience placements organised by QUT.
- Access a breadth of materials from Queensland’s No. 1 university for education learning resources.
Why choose this course?
By combining your interests in the creative arts with education you will not only be able to pursue your practice as a creative artist but also be ready to teach the next generation in secondary schools and other education environments.
Flagship units in the education course cover topics such as Indigenous education, inclusive and trauma-aware education, and digital pedagogies for future-focused teachingto prepare you to engage in the real world as a creative practitioner or a teacher of the arts in a secondary school.
On the creative arts side you will have the opportunity to hone your creative practice with a major with disciplinary units focused on specialist knowledge in your chosen field, that develop key creative, critical and professional skills to prepare you for a range of creative roles and career pathways. It will give you the knowledge to navigate complex and unfamiliar systems and the insight to create meaningful work that is a positive force for change in the broader community.
You will learn how to make meaningful work as a creative practitioner and understand how your knowledge and skills can be applied across community, commercial, and research contexts.
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.
We organise professional experience placements to give you the opportunity to work in a range of real school classrooms and other settings, supervised by practising professional educators. These start from as early as your first year of your course.
Explore this course
The new Bachelor of 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 prepare for teaching with a specialist understanding for secondary school learners in two teaching and learning discipline areas.
You will build your creative practice in one of creative arts majors as your first teaching area. You will then choose a second teaching area from either another creative arts subject (different from your first major) or choose from:
- English
- history
- geography
- mathematics.
If you choose the creative writing major, English becomes your first teaching area, therefore you will be required to choose a different subject for your second teaching area.
Bachelor of Education (secondary)
As a secondary teacher, you can contribute to the development and further the growth of young adults, and share your passion for your chosen teaching areas.
You will be a qualified specialist in your teaching areas and learn to effectively teach subjects in the Australian Curriculum and other frameworks. You’ll be encouraged to create future-focused learning opportunities for your students and be equipped with positive strategies to manage your classrooms.
Bachelor of Creative Arts
You will complete common units in your creative arts degree, providing you with key creative and critical skills. You will develop your professional awareness preparing you for a range of creative roles and career pathways.
You will develop your craft by choosing one of the following majors: contemporary art, creative writing, dance, drama, film and screen, or music. You will also have the option to take either an advanced arts elective to expand your skills, or complete a work integrated learning unit that compliments your studies.
QUT You
You will also complete QUT You units; an innovative new curriculum designed to prepare you for a rapidly changing future.
Real-world facilities
Based at QUT Kelvin Grove campus, you will develop your creativity and collaborate in two of Australia’s most technically advanced creative and learning facilities - the Creative Industries Precinct and Education Precinct.
Creative Industries Precinct
In these spaces you will hone your creativity and entrepreneurial thinking, collaborating with fellow artists, designers, technologists and entrepreneurs, within highly sophisticated experimental zones. Housing purpose-built teaching and learning spaces, the Creative Industries Precinct includes:
- visual art, film and TV, music, dance and performance studios
- digital fabrication workshop
- art galleries and exhibition spaces
- specialist computing labs for animation and virtual reality, music, and creative arts technologies
- motion capture facilities for animation,
- state of the art virtual production studio
- post-production and editing suites.
Education Precinct
With high-quality academic, recreational and support facilities, you will find QUT campuses the perfect place to study. The Peter Coaldrake Education Precinct has five levels dedicated to world-class teaching. You can access imaginatively designed face-to-face and online interactive learning spaces, as well as study pods, community spaces, bike parking, and a garden atrium area.
Careers and outcomes
90% of QUT education graduates are employed full-time within four months of completing their education course (Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching, 2022). By combining your Bachelor of Creative Arts degree with the Bachelor of Education you will broaden your career opportunities upon graduation.
You will graduate with advanced creative practice skills and highly developed teaching knowledge, that will equip you to take advantage of the growing range of career opportunities available within teaching and the creative arts. Whether that be as an arts teacher, a creative practitioner or by applying your creative skills within the broader creative industries.
Possible careers
- Art teacher
- Dance teacher
- Drama teacher
- English teacher
- Music teacher
- Secondary school teacher
The Bachelor of Education (Secondary) / Bachelor of Creative Arts is comprised of 240 credit points from the Bachelor of Education (Secondary), 168 credit points from the Bachelor of Creative Arts, and 24 credit points of QUT You. You will undertake both degree components concurrently.
The Bachelor of Education (Secondary) component is comprised of:
- 144 credit points of core Education units.
- 24 credit points of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment units that align with the chosen Creative Arts major.
- A 72 credit point Education minor (Second Teaching Area)
The Bachelor of Creative Arts component is comprised of:
- 60 credit points of core Creative Arts units.
- A 96 credit point Creative Arts major (acts as the First Teaching Area for the Bachelor of Education (Secondary)).
- A Creative Arts elective unit (12 credit points).
The English minor is not available to students undertaking the Creative Writing major.
QUT You: 24 credit points.
The Bachelor of Education (Secondary) / Bachelor of Creative Arts is comprised of 240 credit points from the Bachelor of Education (Secondary), 168 credit points from the Bachelor of Creative Arts, and 24 credit points of QUT You. You will undertake both degree components concurrently.
The Bachelor of Education (Secondary) component is comprised of:
- 144 credit points of core Education units.
- 24 credit points of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment units that align with the chosen Creative Arts major.
- A 72 credit point Education minor (Second Teaching Area)
The Bachelor of Creative Arts component is comprised of:
- 60 credit points of core Creative Arts units.
- A 96 credit point Creative Arts major (acts as the First Teaching Area for the Bachelor of Education (Secondary)).
- A Creative Arts elective unit (12 credit points).
The English minor is not available to students undertaking the Creative Writing major.
QUT You: 24 credit points.
- Course code
- ID57
- QTAC code
- 409962
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- Kelvin Grove
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- Kelvin Grove
- 4.5 years full-time
- 4.5 years full-time
- February
- February
Prerequisites
- English, or literature, or English and literature extension, or English as an additional language (units 3 & 4, C)
- General mathematics, mathematical methods or specialist mathematics (units 3 & 4, C)
Haven't completed the prerequisite subjects?
You may be able to meet the prerequisite requirements if you've completed equivalent subjects or by completing bridging courses.
How to meet prerequisite requirements
Non-academic entry requirements
You must demonstrate possession of key competencies outlined by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) as those attributes and motivations common to effective teachers.
To demonstrate this you must complete an online questionnaire to demonstrate your motivation for and understanding of, the course and profession. Details are available from the QTAC initial teacher education webpage.
If you've achieved a satisfactory result for one or more components of the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) at another institution, the satisfactory result can be carried across with your admission application. You are not eligible to apply for a place in this course if one or more components of LANTITE remains at unsatisfactory after two test attempts for that component.
Overseas qualifications
We will consider equivalent overseas qualifications for admissions purposes. If you have tertiary qualifications from countries where English is not the standard language of instruction, you must provide evidence of English language proficiency.
English language proficiency
We require students to demonstrate they can speak, write, read and comprehend academic English to a specified standard.
Our English proficiency requirements for this course are:
- IELTS (Academic): 6.5 or better overall with no subscore below 6.0
The test must have been completed within 2 years prior to the proposed course start month.
Offer guarantee
If you achieve an ATAR or selection rank of 70.00 or higher (including any adjustments) and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.
VET guarantee
If you have completed an AQF certificate IV, diploma or higher, and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.
Deferment
You can defer your offer and postpone the start of your course for one year.
Minimum academic requirements
Select the country where you completed your studies to see a guide to the grades you need to apply for this course.
If your country or qualification is not listed, you can still apply for this course and we will assess your eligibility.
I completed secondary school in Australia
Offer guarantee
If you completed secondary school in Australia and achieve an ATAR/selection rank of 70.00 or higher (including any adjustments) and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.
VET guarantee
If you have completed an AQF certificate IV, diploma or higher, and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.
Prerequisites
You must have passed four semesters (Units 3 & 4, C) at an Australian high school level or equivalent:
- English, or Literature, or English and Literature Extension, or English as an Additional Language (Units 3 & 4, C); and
- at least one of General Mathematics, or Mathematical Methods, or Specialist Mathematics (Units 3 & 4, C)
Haven't completed the prerequisite subjects?
You may be able to meet the prerequisite requirements if you've completed equivalent subjects or by completing bridging courses.
How to meet prerequisite requirements
Additional entry requirements
Pass the Initial Teacher Education Course (ITE) capabilities criteria.
Applicants must demonstrate possession of key competencies outlined by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) as those attributes and motivations common to effective teachers.
You must complete an online questionnaire to demonstrate your motivation for and understanding of, the course and profession. In the questionnaire you will be asked to:
- Rank a series of potentially appropriate statement responses, in order of what you think is most to least important.
- Provide two x 500 word written statements addressing the categories and indicators as outlined on the Teacher Entry Fact Sheet.
QUT will send you details on how to complete the Initial Teacher Education Course (ITE) Capabilities Criteria questionnaire and submit your written statements after you have lodged an application.
If you've achieved a 'satisfactory' result for one or more components of the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) at another institution, the 'satisfactory' result can be carried across with your admission application. You are not eligible to apply for a place in this course if one or more components of LANTITE remains at 'unsatisfactory' after two test attempts for that component.
Minimum English language requirements
Select the country where you completed your studies to see a guide on meeting QUT’s English language requirements.
Your scores and prior qualifications in English-speaking countries are considered. Approved English-speaking countries are Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, United States of America and Wales.
If your country or qualification is not listed, you can still apply for this course and we will assess your eligibility.
We accept English language proficiency scores from the following tests undertaken in a secure test centre. Tests must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement.
| English Test | Overall | Listening | Reading | Writing | Speaking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PTE Academic | 58 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
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Cambridge English Score
You must share your results with QUT through the Candidate Results Online website. |
176 | 169 | 169 | 169 | 169 |
| IELTS Academic / IELTS One Skills Retake | 6.5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| TOEFL iBT / Paper | 79 | 16 | 16 | 21 | 18 |
Don't have the English language score you need? We can help!
We offer English language programs to improve your English and help you gain entry to this course.
When you apply for this course, we will recommend which English course you should enrol in.
Blue card
This course requires you to have a blue card so you can participate in work placements and experience.
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. We review fees annually, and they may be subject to increases.
2025 fees
2024: CSP $10,200 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2025 fees
2024: $34,400 per year full-time (96 credit points)
Student services and amenities fees
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
HECS-HELP: loans to help you pay for your course fees
You may not have to pay anything upfront if you're eligible for a HECS-HELP loan.
You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.
QUT Real World International Scholarship
A scholarship to cover tuition fees, with eligibility based on your prior academic achievements.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Academic performance
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