Creative industries

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You can study individual units for personal or professional development without having to apply for a full QUT course.

If you successfully complete a unit, you may be eligible for credit if you decide to apply for a degree course in the future.

Units anyone can study

These units don’t have any requirements for previous study or background knowledge.

But if your previous studies were not in English, or were completed in a country where English is not the first language, you will need to demonstrate that you meet our English proficiency requirements when you apply.

Creative industries

Communication

CYB111 Communication and Collaboration

This unit examines communication between individuals and teams in academic and professional settings. Through a theory/practice nexus, it aids in developing practical skills needed for effective communication such as giving and receiving feedback, collaborating with others, evaluating messages, presenting material in a professional manner and reflecting on communication experiences. With a focus on intrapersonal and interpersonal skills, this unit strengthens current communication practices in live and mediated settings. Presenting meaningful messages in both small and large groups, working on shared professional documents and reflecting on personal communication skills will provide a strong foundation for future studies and the workplace.

CYB112 Communication and Composition

Writing is an essential skill that you will need to succeed in your university program, as researching, composing, analysing, and forming a persuasive argument are fundamental to all assessment tasks. This unit introduces you to the conventions and practices of academic and evidence-based writing and will train you to interpret and analyse information to form a logical and persuasive argument. This unit confronts how digital technology shapes the form and practice of written communication today to build your information/digital literacies and research/evaluation skills. This unit will equip you with the necessary academic and factual writing skills to complete your assessment at a high standard throughout your course of study.

CYB113 Living in a Media World

This unit introduces students to the dynamic and evolving field of Media Studies. It looks at how various traditions of knowledge have sought to better understand the relationship between media and society. It corrects prevailing myths about media power and develops basic skills for engaging with different types of media. For example, how have scholars evaluated, measured, and theorised the impact of mass media forms such as print, television, and the internet on social and political life? Do new media and technologies demand to be understood in new ways, or can we utilise older systems of thought to better understand today’s rapidly changing media world? As future communication professionals, it is crucial that you understand the key concepts and debates that have shaped your discipline.

CYB114 Understanding Media Industries

This unit introduces the core concepts, analytical frameworks, and professional practices necessary to understand how the media industries operate as complex economic and cultural phenomena. This includes a comprehensive overview of media industry structures and functions, production and distribution processes, regulatory and technological conditions, ecological implications, and labour practices. You will also explore the political, economic, and cultural foundations of the media industries in national, regional, and global contexts. You will engage with media industry professionals as guests where appropriate to establish a capacity for the subsequent study of and employability in the media industries.

CYB115 Understanding Audiences

This unit introduces the ways in which the media, entertainment, and news industries have imagined, measured and monetised their audiences. Understanding that audiences are powerful economic and cultural constructions in the media and entertainment industries, the unit examines how researchers and industry professionals build knowledge about how people use media and the role that it plays in their lives. The unit establishes a theoretical foundation in audience studies, as well as explores a range of research methods that are used to study audiences/users, and prepares students to evaluate different types of knowledge claims about audiences.

CYB116 Understanding the Internet and Data

This unit explores the centrality of the internet as a communication tool in both the workplace and everyday life. It explores how internet technologies and digital communication platforms refashion communication practices and social organisation, including the centrality of debates around online behavior and codes of conduct. The unit also introduces students to basic data literacy and digital analytic skills.

KKB190 Yatdjuligin - Cultural Safety in Indigenous Australian Context

Culturally Safe practice is an essential element in a professional's ability to work in a holistic and accountable way with Indigenous Australian peoples and their communities. This requires deconstruction of your own cultures, values, beliefs and attitudes by taking you on a learning journey that allows you to move beyond cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity through to cultural safety.This unit will prompt you to develop your own strategies to be a culturally safe practitioner in both innovative and creative ways.

KKB191 Am I black enough? Indigenous Australian Representations

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, identities, communities and cultures have been represented in a variety of mediums and artefacts since colonisation. The purpose of this unit is to deconstruct these representations from Indigenous standpoints and critically analyse how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples continue to be positioned across multimedia. This unit facilitates informed discussions prompted by exposure to historical and contemporary constructions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from Indigenous standpoints and perspectives. This unit allows you to challenge existing perspectives of Indigenous Australia through creative and scholarly works by Indigenous artists and scholars. Engaging with this deconstruction will assist you to apply knowledge and skills of culturally safe practices within your personal and professional practices in a confident and safe manner.

KKB192 Smash the Act - Indigenous Australian Politics

This unit will provide you with an introductory knowledge of Australian Indigenous political culture, history, politics and activism through exploration of Indigenous standpoints. The ongoing history of colonial policy will be examined through Indigenous peoples’ struggle for equal rights, Indigenous rights and self-determination. Core political concepts and institutions in Australian social life such as the nation-state, sovereignty, liberalism, representation and democracy will be viewed from Indigenous perspectives and critically analysed according to their capacity to accommodate Indigenous sovereign interests including treaty and institutional reform. You will be actively involved in contemporary debates such as government policy towards Indigenous peoples and communities, the continuing struggle for land rights and Native Title, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples and other relevant issues as they arise.

KKB193 Indigenous Knowledge: Research Ethics and Protocols

This unit critiques research on Indigenous Australian issues and articulates culturally safe research practice that reflects decolonising methodologies as an underpinning framework. The need for culturally safe research is supported by colonially constructed knowledge and the obvious gaps in understanding of the ongoing life-differentials and social determinants that impact on Indigenous Australians. Interrogation of Western research and Indigenous scholarship and international contexts will challenge you to critically analyse received perceptions of research conduct. Indigenous knowledges and pedagogies will facilitate a transformative learning journey in a process where students critique Western research frameworks that continue to represent Indigenous peoples as the 'other'. The unit will engage your learning through Indigenous knowledge frameworks that facilitate the development of a decolonising research proposal which adheres to Indigenous research ethics and protocols.

Creative arts

KKB180 Creative Futures

This unit introduces creative industries disciplines, interdisciplinarity and the careers of creative industries practitioners. It aids you to plan your course of study in line with your career interests and potential career opportunities. It enhances your research, written communication and critical thinking skills for various professional and academic purposes. It draws on cutting edge research into the distinctive characteristics of the creative workforce, the creative industries and its cultural context, introducing you to study and work as an emerging interdisciplinary creative practitioner. You will investigate creative career possibilities and opportunities and develop essential information literacy and written communication skills for both academic and professional contexts. You will envision potential creative career pathways, identify cultural and other considerations and discover which skills and strategies you’ll need. This will help you make the most of your degree.

KKB185 Creative Enterprise Studio 1

In Studio 1, students develop both enterprise skills and collaborative foundational design thinking skills to better understand the problem space for unique industry or community-based problems. As such, the unit responds to opportunity identification and value creation aligned to industry and/or community-based real world needs. Whilst the value of disciplinary expertise remains constant in this changing world, many problems facing organisations and societies naturally span disciplines. Collaboration and inquiry into these real world problems require a breadth of knowledge and skills in ways that demand and reward curiosity and innovation. Being the first of three Creative Enterprise Studio units, your ability to respond to complex and unique real world problems is strengthened by learning to think and act in diverse ways and draw upon perspectives, methods and insights garnered from the multiplicity of disciplines in your unit cohort.

KYB110 Art, Text and Context

This is a foundational unit in the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree that introduces you to the critical contexts of creative works and practices including: how they make meaning, their varying contexts, how they circulate, how these might change over time This is done through an introduction to: some of the key aesthetic, conceptual and technical ideas that underpin a range of creative practice disciplines; critical thinking and the critical analysis of creative works and practices; understanding what it means to be a critical viewer/reader/listener/artist; some different and diverse perspectives on various creative forms, works, and practices, including the contribution that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and thinkers have made across a range of disciplines.

KYB201 Socially Engaged Arts Practice

This unit addresses principles, practices and forms of performance that privilege community and cultural democracy. By examining the key ideology and teachings and contemporary Australian practice in community and cultural development (CCD), this unit aims to make connections between creative practice, community and their concerns. It also aims to provide opportunities for you to engage positively in these contexts through your respective art form. Creative practice can reach out beyond the walls of conventional performance space and use its transformative powers to activate solidarity and agency in people and communities to facilitate social action and positive change. Knowledge of the ethos, values and processes of working with communities in a responsive and consultative fashion is an important capability for a comprehensive career in arts and provides key career opportunities for emerging artists.

KYB210 Art and Social Change

This unit critically examines the relationship between art, culture and social change. Drawing on art in its broadest multidisciplinary sense, you will learn about: Some key examples of art's relationship to social change since 1945, including visual, audio, and performance practices and movements. The impact of art as both a stimulus to and response to cultural, social and environmental issues The power dynamics underpinning the creation of and representation of diverse identities and communities in art, including First Nations perspectives. The responsibility of artists as creative practitioners and cultural intermediaries and the importance of critical and contextual research in creating work for publics. This unit builds on some of the foundational concepts and approaches introduced in KYB110 Art, Text and Context.

KZB104 Photomedia

Making, reading, and critically analysing complex photomedia images are essential 21st-century creative skills. This unit develops these skills through a combination of aesthetic, conceptual, and technical activities, addressing visual literacy, experimental and critical artistic enquiry, and the protocols related to ethical and inclusive photomedia practice. You are introduced to a diverse range of contemporary artistic photo imaging concepts and methods in the context of photographic history and encouraged to develop your own creative responses by experimenting with a range of approaches to photomedia image making.

KZB110 Approaches to Contemporary Drawing

This unit focuses on experimental and creative approaches to contemporary drawing. Contemporary drawing explores creative modes of engaging with materials, processes and concepts, to communicate ideas, capture experiences and respond to environments. Using a studio-based approach, you will explore, compose, analyse and interpret a range of modern and contemporary works of art. The aim of this unit is to build your technical and conceptual knowledge to increase your appreciation of drawing as a mode of expression and to extend your drawing skills for application in visual art, animation, design and educational settings.

KZB120 Australian Voices

The ability to recognise, analyse and engage with key aspects of one’s national artistic culture is an important part of a creative practitioner’s work life. This unit analyses works of contemporary Australian creative practice, focusing on how artistic culture in Australia is positioned in terms of industry and institutions, artistic forms, changing concepts of practice, and the crucial place of First Nations stories. This unit equips you with both creative and analytical skills in a range of Australian contexts and practice areas, that is, Acting, Drama, and Technical Production; Creative Writing; Dance; Film, Screen and Animation; Music; and, Visual Arts. It offers discussion of the breadth and diversity of contemporary works in Australia, and an understanding of the broader cultural contexts of their production. The unit supports your development as a creative arts practitioner by connecting you to national communities of practice and their audiences in Australia and abroad.

KZB290 Production Management

This unit introduces the skills and essential industry knowledge to equip students from all disciplines to successfully manage creative projects – whether they are large scale creative projects or your own individual creative practice. This unit will look at the management of all forms of creative practice, from live performance, events and exhibitions, music concerts, film projects, touring production, and more. Students will learn how to schedule, budget, assess risks and manage the logistics of creative productions, all while expanding their understanding of the key industry awards that govern Australian creative industries, from broadcast to live performance to print media. This unit is ideal for students wanting to work as production managers in all creative fields, as well as students wishing to self-manage creative projects.

Creative writing

KWB104 Writing Fiction

This unit investigates the techniques and elements of writing fiction, beginning by looking at the short story and moving on to looking at the novel. The writing of short stories has traditionally been a starting place for writers to begin developing their craft. Initially via the short story, this unit explores the elements of fiction such as character, voice, setting, plot, dialogue, point of view and modulation. The unit then moves to investigating further elements of fiction using the novel as its focus, helping you acquire and practice skills in creative writing. In this unit you will also learn to analyse prose fiction for craft elements in a way that informs and illuminates your own work. In addition to lectures, tutorial based peer-critique workshops are a central part of this unit. Within them, in a guided and structured way, you will get and give feedback on the stories as they are being written.

KWB113 Introduction to Creative Writing

This unit provides the fundamental skills for writing fiction and poetry as well as the basic theoretical background that underpins them. It looks at the foundational techniques required to write successfully in each mode and explores how a practitioner might best approach both writing and critical analysis in the contemporary context. It develops a critical understanding of your own and others’ approaches to writing life. You will be encouraged to develop the skills required for professional writing through a series of tasks that introduce key concepts such as characterisation, constructing a scene, writing dialogue, and creating imagery.

KWB116 Writing Creative Non-Fiction

In this unit, you will develop the ability to recognise, analyse and write in key areas of creative non-fiction writing. The unit offers you highly transferable skills that form part of the professional writer's practice and which are especially useful to develop early in a writing career. Creative non-fiction allows you to combine real life stories with the creative and imaginative writing techniques employed in fiction, and applies to a wide range of writing modes and publishing contexts. These include reviewing, writing about books, music and screen, food writing, the personal essay, life writing and travel literature, and the use of humour in writing. This unit encourages you to apply the creative writing techniques of these forms to your own areas of interest and creative practice, and has an industry focus in equipping you with practical and analytical skills in a range of non-fiction creative writing genres.

KWB118 Genre Writing and Storytelling

This unit surveys current trends in genre writing and popular fiction with a focus on essential storytelling techniques. You will look in detail at the biggest genres in publishing, including romance, science fiction, fantasy, and crime writing, gaining insight into the traditions, parameters, and possibilities of each. The unit will develop your understanding of genre theory through an investigation of the social and political underpinnings of key genres, and through the practical application of these ideas and perspectives in your own writing. You will develop a piece of writing that makes use of the techniques of your chosen genre and that reflects the appropriate concerns and themes. The unit aims to develop your critical understanding of your approach to the writing life.

KWB211 Creative Writing: Style and Technique

This unit is a masterclass in literary style. Each week in this unit we will look at how one writer produces a particular technique or effect well, we will unpack at a language level exactly what they are doing, and then we will use this understanding to produce a written piece for the week employing that technique. In essence, this unit provides an opportunity to develop different writing techniques through guided writing exercises and theoretical analyses of texts with an emphasis on style and effect. Here you move beyond the basic elements of fiction and develop advanced techniques in creative and professional writing at a low, language-oriented level. Intensive tutorial-based work, self-directed creative practice, guided critical analysis and asynchronous on-line activities characterise the teaching and learning in this unit.

KWB212 Poetry and Poetics

This unit provides important creative and critical skills in writing poetry and cultivating an understanding of how to interpret and use poetic techniques. It explores a spectrum of contemporary and traditional forms of poetry, and is designed for those who are interested in poetics and the use of words in precise, innovative, concentrated and musical ways. It equips students with knowledge of the techniques, poetic forms and modes, and the opportunity to apply this vocabulary in analysing and reading a wide range of contemporary poetry. The unit provides key creative and critical skills in writing poetry, while offering you the chance to practice in a variety of poetic forms and modes, reflectively writing about your own poetry and analytically writing about the stylistics of another person’s work. The unit occurs at the mid-point of the creative writing major, building on KWB211 Creative Writing: Style and Technique, and preparing you for the advanced work of third year.

KWB214 The Artful Life: From Memoir to Fiction

This unit examines the relationship between imaginative literature, especially the novel, and the inspiration we derive from our own lives. Memoir and fiction are major literary forms that are connected by their use of creative writing techniques and by the way they draw material from authors’ personal experiences. They also are pervasive, complex and culturally important literary forms. This unit is designed to help you examine and understand the theory and practice of memoir and long-form fiction writing; the relationship between imagination and inspiration, and the process of planning and research leading to the development of a novel or memoir proposal, including an initial chapter and synopsis. As such, the unit addresses the scope, challenges and practices of developing fiction or memoir; the standards, conventions and possibilities of fiction and memoir forms; and the development of editorial skills in collaboration with others (feedback).

KWB215 Dangerous Ideas: Contemporary Debates in Writing

This unit introduces you to the key debates and ideas animating the field of contemporary creative writing, and allows you to consider your own writing practice in the context of these debates. The unit helps you to develop a nuanced understanding of the issues preoccupying contemporary writers, to gain insight into the historical and cultural factors informing those issues, and to articulate your own perspectives via conversation and debate. You will encounter a spectrum of ideas about what it means to be a writer today as well as the historical and cultural factors informing our ideas of authorship.

KWB217 Editing and Publishing

This unit offers an advanced understanding of the editing process and the contemporary Australian publishing landscape. It develops your editorial acumen across a range of modes and forms, and builds the interpersonal skills required for editorial relationships. These understandings and skills are crucial for those intending to work in the publishing industry and are of great benefit to creative writers. You will learn to edit the work of others with insight, understanding, and technical skill, and gain a greater knowledge of contemporary Australian publishing.

KWB312 Editing and Publishing

KWB319 Dangerous Ideas: Contemporary Debates in Writing

Dance

KDB107 Fundamentals of Choreography

This unit introduces the fundamentals of improvisation and choreographic practice. Throughout it you will participate in a series of creative laboratories that seek to enliven an experiential understanding of the body in dance and explore different practices and processes that cultivate tools for dance making. The unit focuses on exploring dance through different approaches to improvisation and task-based processes. This is an opportunity to develop your foundational skills as a choreographer in dance through developing critical skills in experimentation, physical thinking, responsivity, as well as the ability to mobilise your ideas and concepts.

KDB112 Exploring Dance Technique

This unit introduces dance technique and the application of somatic practices. It includes the principles of safe dance practice, alignment, kinaesthetic awareness, and maintaining a sustainable embodied practice. Through practical classes you will develop your technical foundation in contemporary dance and your understanding of the principles of movement. The development of your engagement and understanding of what your dance practice might be and how it informs your future as a dance practitioner is at the forefront of this unit.

KDB222 World Dance

This unit aims to develop your sensitivity, curiosity, and knowledge of cultural diversity and protocols, through participating in dance styles from around the world and learning about their contexts. Through practical classes you will gain an experiential understanding of the dance styles, which will be contextualised through lectures and reflective practice strategies. The new generation of twenty-first century global citizens needs to be agile in the understandings and skills necessary to negotiate cultural difference if they are to contribute to creating peaceful communities. In this unit, participating in dance styles from around the world and learning about their contexts, provides an opportunity for you to develop these attributes.

KDB224 Cultural Assemblies

In this unit you will explore how dance making can be an agent for change when addressing key issues of 21st century culture. You will examine movement ideas, develop compositional methodologies and create ensemble choreographies informed by research into the themes and issues explored in the lectures. The issues addressed may concern intersections between dance of various styles/cultures and: gender identity, race/ethnic identity, peacebuilding, preservation of the environment, and wellbeing. These topics will be explored through a variety of lenses that may include choreographic practice, teaching artistry, and scholarly perspectives providing a contextual background for entry into a wide range of professions in the creative industries. In this unit, you will engage experiential workshops that actively mobilise these themes and issues, as you learn how to develop choreographic methodologies and new modes of creating and choreographing collective bodies for social change.

KDB315 The Choreographic and Curatorial

The Choreographic and Curatorial invites you to experiment at the nexus of dance and art. In response to an industry brief you will conceptualise, plan and deliver a project engaging with notions of choreographing and/or curating experiences and spatiotemporal relationships. Through a curatorial lens mapping how artists interrelatedly create works and experiences that direct performers and/or audience's attention, eliciting movement responses, inciting action and thoughtful engagement, you will investigate methodologies for creation, interaction and engagement. Drawing on this knowledge and your own conceptual research, you will develop embodied methodologies to generate movement experiences for performers and/or audiences by curating spatiotemporal relationships inviting engagement and/or activation.

Design

DYB101 Impact Lab: Place and Context

While you will develop disciplinary knowledge and skills through the course, many problems facing organisations and societies naturally span disciplines. DYB101 explores the potential of design to bring about change. DYB101 introduces design processes and practices for a future characterised by diverse perspectives, social agendas and environmental concerns. You will learn how 21st-century designers from all disciplines apply empathy and the ability to acknowledge and incorporate diverse viewpoints to address challenging themes.

DYB121 Introducing Design Fabrication

This introductory hands-on unit explores concepts, skills and methods required to prototype and fabricate physical objects from your design ideas. Designers need to consider the capabilities of fabrication, associated processes and equipment, and materials available to produce a physical prototype of their design ideas. From this perspective, design fabrication is problem centric and requires a rationale behind the choice of materials and processes, an understanding of the quality of the fabrication outcome as part of an iterative process or for its temporal qualities for concept evaluation, as well as consideration of the ethics of fabrication. The foundational design fabrication skills acquired in this unit will be further developed in subsequent design units in the program.

DYB122 Design Visualisations

This unit Introduces you to design visualisation practice and how to employ a variety of techniques to visualise design ideas to assist you in design thinking, research, communication and presentation.

DYB123 Emerging Design Technology

The design industry is rapidly evolving with the introduction of new technologies. This unit introduces you to existing and emerging technology and how it applies to the design process and design outputs. Designers need to be familiar with technology to aid them in the design process as well as being able to create new products, services or experiences that take advantage of existing and emerging technologies.

DYB124 Design Consequences

Design Consequences is an introductory unit employing theoretical and applied methods to explore the ways in which design influences and is influenced by cultural traditions and practices, beliefs and biases. Working across frames of past, present and future, you will learn how to critically engage with and draw upon these cultural factors and influences to shape and define your design work and practice.The twenty-first century presents designers with a challenging context characterised by the increasingly dramatic effects of climate change, growing levels of inequality, and destabilised geopolitical conditions. This unit will introduce you to a range of ideas, methods, and approaches necessary to understand design not only as products, environments, services and experiences but also as a social, cultural, political, and economic agent.

Digital media

CCB105 Digital Platforms

It is critical for communication professionals to understand the cultural, economic, and technical contexts from which contemporary digital platforms have emerged and in which they are continuing to evolve. This unit focuses on the technological developments, business logics, and socio-economic shifts that have shaped the brief history of digital platforms, focusing on what differentiates digital platforms from other media forms. It develops students’ contextual understanding of digital platforms by exploring how key concepts in digital media studies map onto specific platforms and their audience and user cultures. Please note the online offering of this unit will be available to eligible online BCI students only.

CCB106 Popular Culture

The products, practices, and pleasures of popular culture are frequently dismissed as being superficial, unserious, or unimportant. This unit, however, celebrates popular culture as a contested and shifting phenomenon that permeates everyday life. Far from mundane, popular culture is charged with a political valence that reflects—and shapes—our lives. This unit further develops conceptual framework(s) and analytic tools to critically evaluate the texts, artefacts, and/or practices of popular culture. In completing this unit, students will understand how the communication industries produce and circulate popular culture, and will be able to critique the politics of pleasure that frame the consumption of mass culture.

CCB201 Australian Media

This unit evaluates the industrial and cultural logics of Australian media. You will develop an understanding of contemporary debates, issues and developments and will learn about how national and local media are shaped by a range of factors including digital distribution technologies, concentrated ownership structures and cultural policy. The unit engages with questions of national culture and identity, amid the intense internationalising forces impacting Australian media. Understanding the technological, economic, and policy contexts within which Australian media operate will help you to form ethical media choices and professional communication practices.

CCB202 Social Media, Self and Society

Social Media has had a tremendous impact on our lives as individuals and members of larger societies. The debates surrounding these new and powerful technologies are often multi-faceted in their complexity. In this unit you will develop skills in critically examining and contributing to debates about social media’s impact on issues such as identity, privacy and the ethics of everyday life. You will draw on scholarly research to evaluate opposing perspectives and become critically informed communication professionals. Please note the online offering of this unit will be available to eligible online BCI students only.

CCB205 Digital Media Analytics

This unit equips you with critical understanding and skills in contemporary research and practice methods as they are applied to digital content, platforms and networks. From computational analyses of ‘big social data’ to close qualitative analysis of digital media platforms and practices, the approaches, methods and tools that are grounded in and suitable for the study of digital media are expanding and evolving rapidly. This unit aims to provide you with critical understanding and practical skills in how to select and implement contemporary digital approaches to the collection, analysis and interpretation of various forms of communication data, such as social media content (both textual and visual) and geodata.

CCB206 Global Media and Culture

This unit provides students with a critical understanding of the economic, political, and cultural dimensions of global media industries. It introduces key disciplinary theories and debates about the creation, circulation and consumption of media content as it circulates across different locations and cultures. The unit also enables students to develop skills and knowledge necessary for living and working in globally diverse communities and professional contexts. The unit may survey a range of media industries and cultural forms and/or focus on a single site of global activity as it explores the inherently transnational nature of the content we consume.

CCB304 Social Media Strategy

This unit develops a critical understanding of, and applied skills in, best practice social media management within professional communication contexts. You will engage with the principles, tools and techniques of professional social media practice, social media presence and the development, implementation and analysis of digital communication strategies. It also provides opportunities to apply them in the ever-evolving social media landscape. This is an advanced unit that builds on individual and teamwork approaches to learning and teaching developed in introductory and intermediate units.

CCB305 Critical Issues in Media and Communication

This advanced unit engages with critical and contemporary issues concerned with the complex relationships among media, communication, and culture. It builds upon core knowledge and skills, and is designed to increase confidence in your analytical capacity and problem solving ability as a future media and communications professional. Drawing on the latest from our world-leading researchers, this unit will enable you to apply historical, economic, political, technological, and cultural perspectives when responding to real world issues facing the media and communications industries.

CCB306 Media and Communication Capstone

The ability to engage audiences is a persistent challenge in today's media and communications industries, and is therefore a highly sought-after skill. In this capstone unit you will demonstrate your proficiency in the methods, tools, and analytic approaches used to engage audiences through a ‘real world’ media and communications project. This unit builds upon core knowledge and skills gained throughout your degree, particularly your theoretical and applied understanding of audiences. In doing so, it develops your professional capacity for independence, leadership, confidence, and collaboration. This unit equips you with in-demand knowledge and capabilities to prepare you for your career in the dynamic media and communications industries.

Drama

KRB120 Scenography 1: Introducing Performance Design

This unit will introduce you to scenography through a study of key historical shifts, foundational concepts and techniques in live performance design. 'Scenography' is the art of creating performance environments incorporating elements such as set, sound, light, new media and costume within space; driven by a performance text; and shaped by the performer and director for a live audience. This unit covers the evolution of scenography for theatre, dance and opera; and how these developments continue to influence contemporary performance design. KRB120 is ideal for students interested in designing, directing/choreographing, managing, performing and/or technically facilitating live works. The unit introduces a broad range of design techniques, technology and terminology used in contemporary performance practice. As the first unit in the Scenography minor, this foundation unit serves as preparation for more detailed and practical investigation in subsequent units.

KTB112 Drama: Theory and Performance

This foundational unit engages practically and theoretically with notions of contemporary performance practice, before inviting students to consider future evolutions of the form’s techniques and methodologies. Focussing on styles of performance that promote co-creation, interaction and participation, the unit teaches critical and creative theories and techniques needed to cultivate self-awareness, other-awareness, and greater socio-political awareness of performance practices. How these aspects influence style and form, constitute the central focus of the unit. A combination of exercises and opportunities to develop a performance persona in this unit encourages students to find comfort in the evolving modes and expressions of the form of contemporary dramatic styles.

KTB113 Storytelling and Performance

This foundational unit introduces dramaturgical and narrative theory embedded alongside the practical skills needed to create performance in a range of contexts, including that of First Nations storytelling, dramaturgy in performance-making and storytelling for drama and live performance. The unit requires no prior experience but can deepen and connect to existing knowledges of devising, dramatic text analysis, experiential theatre, and creative writing in other art forms. Students are introduced to First Nations perspectives on storytelling and how to engage with these with responsibility and respect. They develop dramaturgical skills in research and critical thinking as they write a dramaturgical critique, and the giving and receiving of feedback as they create their own performance texts. The unit culminates in a staged reading and performance of the performance texts, where the students can experience the full creative process in the writing of new performance texts.

KTB219 Directing

This intermediate praxis unit investigates notions and functions of direction and creative leadership in the fields of theatre, drama, mediated and live performance. Through engaging with models of directorial best-practice and examining influential practitioners you will unpack the process of leading creativity from both a collaborative and personal perspective, with the aim of achieving a unified creative vision in consideration of emerging ideas in sustainability, diversity and technology and how these things may shape considerations of leadership. Whether within conventional hierarchical structures or collaborative models, delivering creative outcomes requires not only knowledge of the personal, logistical, curatorial, and sustainable artistic processes of creation, but also an understanding of the processes to safely navigate from concept to fullest expression.

KTB225 Radical Theatre Forms

This unit develops an appreciation of theatre innovation in both historical and contemporary contexts. It addresses concepts attributed to postdramatic theatre, immersive theatre forms, theatre as a hypermedium, and audience-centred work. Throughout history theatre has responded to changes within society and has developed styles that have reinterpreted and reinvented the notions of character, tension, audience, site, time and narrative. One way to understand new and radical theatre styles is to investigate the historical and contemporary contexts that are shaping current theatrical practice. These practices give rise to theatre that is responsive to site, places the audience at the centre of the experience and engages with non-linear narrative form. Understanding this enables theatre-makers to develop informed choices about where to locate, describe and promote their practice and product. This unit explores forms that reinvent notions of audience, narrative, space and linear time.

KTB227 Leadership in Creative Contexts: Directing Creativity

This unit investigates notions and functions of leadership in the fields of theatre, drama and performance. Through engaging with models of directorial best-practice and examining influential practitioner-leaders, you will unpack the process of leading creativity from both a collaborative and personal perspective, with the aim of achieving a unified creative vision. Whether within conventional hierarchical structures or collaborative models, delivering creative outcomes requires not only knowledge of the personal, logistical and artistic processes of creation, but also an understanding of the processes to safely navigate from concept to fullest expression.

Fashion

DFB102 Introduction to Fashion Communication

This unit provides an introduction to fashion communication and is intended to provide foundational knowledge and skills to pursue further studies in fashion communication. It aims to develop your understanding of fashion as both an everyday cultural form and a complex global industry. Learning in this unit will be important in order to gain an overview of the global fashion system and fashion cultures. You will develop and practise foundational fashion communication skills alongside learning how to apply key theoretical ideas to understanding fashion. This unit will provide you with the conceptual basis to pursue further studies in fashion communication.

DFB104 Fashion Sustainability

This unit provides you with a foundational knowledge of environmental and social impacts of the fashion system. The unit examines the environmental and social impact of materials, production and consumption methods in order to develop the skills and mindset to apply more sustainable practices. It also introduces fashion systems as complex supply chains spanning raw fibre through to manufacturing, design, retailing and garment use, and disposal systems at end of life.

DFB208 Fashion Textiles

This unit covers applied textile design in the past, present and future. It will explore the cultural, social and industrial significance of textiles. The unit will provide opportunities to learn about the techniques involved with textile production. You will draw on this to experiment with and design textiles in line with industry trends and challenges, and explore avenues in speculative design into textile futures.

DFB209 Global Fashion History

This unit introduces the foundations of fashion history through a global perspective of trade, culture and style flows between the West and the East. It presents a new approach to the study of fashion history as an exchange between cultures through a critical and interdisciplinary approach. The unit provides you with the opportunity to build your fashion knowledge in the context of complex global cultural and commercial exchanges in fashion. It unravels competing cultural and political discourses of dress in colonial contexts, recognising the multiple sites that contributed to the emergence of fashion. It provides you with skills in written and oral communication; research and visual analysis; and creative skills. Importantly, it will help you to identify and understand current influences and future directions in contemporary fashion design.

DFB216 Wearables

This unit introduces wearable product design for the purposes of enhancing the user experience within a given context. It provides knowledge and skills to design interactive wearable products. It focuses on demonstrating the use of emerging technologies and rapid prototyping techniques for the purposes of designing wearable products that enhance the user experience within a given context. This unit is designed as an intermediate experience of your course and as such it is desirable that you have completed design foundation units, tangible media or textiles and technology units prior to enrolling in this unit. This unit provides you with opportunities to build, develop and apply creative design proficiency in the context of wearable design and wearable technologies.

Film, screen & animation

KNB100 Introduction to Animation Studies

As an evolving art form, animation engages both critical and historical practices in an ongoing creative, technical and narrative development. This unit will examine the key critical, historical and cultural contexts, including Indigenous perspectives that underpin contemporary animation. Starting at the early 20th century and finishing with the present day, this unit nurtures critical thinking through an investigation of the unique conditions that gave rise to important pioneering and innovative currents that distinguish contemporary animation as a genre. Students will have the opportunity to: explore important theories of colour, motion, and form; trace the journey of animation from historical to contemporary contexts; understand creative and technical methods and their applied contexts; develop a critical awareness of the techniques and methods underpinning modern animation; and, gain foundational knowledge that will inform student’s individual animation practice.

KNB105 Core Concepts in Animation Practice

This unit provides you with a comprehensive understanding of the core concepts and principles of animation through 2D processes. Drawing on key animation texts, you will explore theories and processes that underpin the craft of animation, enabling you to produce original artefacts that create believable motion for diverse animated outcomes. Building an understanding of how motion is constructed frame by frame ahead of using computer systems to handle the in-betweens is key grounding to animation practice which can be applied to any medium or method of animation.

KNB110 Virtual Art Department: 3D Assets and Virtual Worlds

Like a traditional art department, the virtual art department (VAD) is focused on shot design, layout, visual development, and creating production-ready digital assets and worlds to be used in a range of production approaches and fields such as Film, Animation, Virtual Production, Games, visualisation, and immersive experiences to name a few. This unit explores the methods, applications, and theories of 3D and real-time asset production and virtual environment creation (world-building). You will learn about the fundamental components of 3D asset production, including textures, mesh, materials, and other aspects, and build abilities to create 3D assets using current production processes. This unit will also delve into approaches to environment creation and how assets can be adapted and adjusted to suit specific needs. You will learn about environmental narrative and how locations can be used to tell stories, as well as the impact of environments on narrative.

KNB205 Digital Creatures and Characters

Animated characters and creatures have captivated audiences across all forms of content they generate empathy and emotions and are key to storytelling within animated contexts. This unit explores what an Animated character is, and what they are composed of within the contexts of emerging concepts and methods of animated production. This unit will empower you to create the next generation of virtual characters through a study of the practice of designing, creating and presenting compelling and memorable animated characters, that communicate their story and personality through their design. We will also discuss the importance of cultural sensitivity in character design and how to create characters that are authentic and respectful of different cultures and traditions. The content of this unit forms a key part of the animator’s tool kit giving you a command of the virtual entities you manipulate as part of the animation process.

KNB210 Animation Project Development

Through a practice-based study of innovative industry and emerging pipelines, you will gain a critical and practical understanding of the processes and resources needed to design, develop and render a variety of animated outcomes. Extending this knowledge, there will be an opportunity to experiment with emergent transmedia workflows, such as integrating non-linear content using a gaming engine pipeline. Learning will evaluate techniques, methods and practices for production of animated films and other projects, including augmented, virtual and extended reality (VR/XR) workflows. Students will extend their professional practice through evaluation and application of animation studio workflows. As well as providing a deep dive into technical and creative workflows common to the animation industry, this unit will extend knowledge for students wishing to undertake 'above the line roles' in animation workflows such as Producer, Director and Production Manager.

KPB113 Introduction to Screen Studies

Introduction to Screen Studies develops skills to assist you interpret, analyse, and evaluate narrative screen texts. It explores how and why narrative productions tell their stories through the creative construction and arrangement of visuals and sound. You are introduced to film as art and then to film as social practice. Appreciating film language (such as mise-en-scene and editing) considers film as art by examining film form, film style and film genre. Film as social practice focuses on an understanding of screen productions as being created within particular social and cultural contexts since films have social and cultural significance for communities and audiences. Screen Studies is brought into the contemporary era by including ecocinema as a case study — fictional narrative films with ecological and environmental narratives, themes, and audiovisual representations.

KPB119 Introduction to Screen Production: Single Camera

This unit introduces single camera production techniques and the skills and knowledge required to work in small, independent screen production contexts. Students will develop an understanding of single camera production workflow from pre-production, production and post-production with a focus on creating short form content in independent and collaborative contexts.

KPB220 Factual Screens

This unit introduces the traditions of documentary film and television production, stylistic practices in documentary and documentary scripts, and methodologies for producing ethnographic, indigenous and cross cultural documentaries. Understanding the role documentary performs in our media age provides a crucial literacy to this film forms. You will be exposed to the history and theory behind documentary, enabling you to conceptualise and plan your own documentary productions and critique the place of them alongside factual and fictional forms of filmmaking in the contemporary media landscape. The documentary filmmaking tradition has involved many crucial aesthetic, technical and ethical concerns throughout history. For film, screen and animation students, this unit aids you to integrate its contents into documentary scripts and productions, while for other disciplines' students, the unit provides the theoretical underpinnings and processes of documentary production.

Industrial design

DNB110 ID Studio 1: User Centred Design

This unit introduces you to User Centred Industrial Design. It addresses visual and creative thinking within the context of the industrial design process and provides human-centred knowledge focused on usability, usability methods and evaluation techniques. You will learn how to implement physical, cognitive and emotional factors to human-centred product design, services and systems. Understanding the needs and capabilities of people is essential to the design of usable, desirable and viable products, services and systems. In order to do this you will need a solid understanding of user-centred design methods during the industrial design process and the application of form, structure, function and beauty in design.

Interaction design

DXB111 Introduction to Web Design

This unit introduces concepts and skills underpinning the user-centred design of web sites using the web technologies such as HTML and CSS. It enables you to understand web technologies as a medium to explore design concepts and to build responsive, high-fidelity, mobile-first web sites. This includes translating conceptual designs into responsive websites while taking into account principles of interface and user experience design, layout, style and navigation. The unit enables you to formulate solutions to design problems, to produce high quality technical and aesthetic outcomes, and to understand the basic skills needed by web design professionals.

DXB205 Interactive Narrative Design

This unit serves as an introduction to creating immersive environments and building interactive worlds for player performance and dramatic agency. The role of the narrative designer is central to the success of any significant professional project in interactive media and game design. The unit addresses theoretical issues associated with immersive / non-linear story structures and interactive narrative forms through the analysis of game / play systems, the creation of original game concepts and the application of techniques of narrative design. It extends this understanding into practice through the application of relevant skills, which will scaffold you into the production of a portfolio work (suitable for interaction designers, visual communication designers, game designers, media designers, creative writers and performance studies).

Journalism

CJB101 Foundations of Journalism

This unit provides you with foundational knowledge of what ‘journalism’ means today as both a professional practice and cultural form. You will learn about the changing role of journalism in society, how journalism underpins (and undermines) democracy, and be introduced to journalism ethics and law. You will learn how the business activities of media companies shape news values, and how they employ contemporary practices of story selection and verification. Against this industrial context, you will begin to learn journalistic writing conventions and apply effective reporting techniques. In doing so, this unit equips you with the essential knowledge and tools for you to understand and thrive in a complex and dynamic communication industry.

CJB105 Shortform News Production

Journalists must be able to produce content that engages audiences across a range of formats and platforms. In this unit, you will develop the ability to successfully perform a range of newsgathering activities, including interviewing and live blogging. Drawing on this newsgathering activity, you will produce under ‘real world’ deadlines professional quality audio and video content that is suitable for TV, radio, or digital platforms. You will also apply multimedia skills to produce transmedia content that supports contemporary journalism practices, and create digital communication content that engages and/or persuades audiences. In addition to producing content, you will undertake editorial roles that support successful short form news production, and understand the value of community and collaboration in the multifaceted practice of contemporary journalism.

CJB205 Data-Driven Storytelling and Verification

Communication professionals now operate in a world in which data is plentiful, and often relatively easy to access. This situation also throws up a number of challenges, though, with these practitioners needing to know where to find such data, how to make sense of it and, more importantly, how to present that data to an audience in a meaningful and engaging way. This unit therefore equips students with some of these foundational skills, and provides them with a strong understanding of how statistics and data can be used to enhance news stories, and help to uncover stories which have not been told yet.

CJB303 Political Communication

This unit surveys the theory and professional practices of political and governmental communication, especially through journalism, media and communications industries. It examines contemporary and historical political issues and communications in Australia and internationally from the perspectives of democratic theory, media influence, strategic image, and issue management. The unit comprises an overview of theoretical approaches to political communication, the construction of political discourse, and the mobilisation of audiences/voters; an understanding of the relationship between communication strategies and the management of politics, with cases drawn from Australian and international politics. Students will develop the capacity to critically appraise strategic issues such as political persuasion, electoral strategy, uses/impacts of digital and social media, and public opinion formation and to create messages about issues connected to politics and government.

CJB304 Critical Issues in News and Factual Media

This advanced unit engages with critical and contemporary issues that are upending news media business practices, values, and trends. It builds upon core knowledge and skills, and is designed to increase confidence in your analytical capacity and problem solving ability as a future reporters and factual storytellers in a rapidly changing industry. Drawing on the latest from our world-leading researchers, this unit will enable you will apply historical, economic, political, technological, and cultural perspectives to understand and master the real world issues facing the factual media landscape.

Music

KMB117 Introduction to Composition and Songwriting

This unit introduces students to the fundamental principles and techniques of composing and songwriting. Through a combination of theoretical learning, practical exercises, and analysis of a diverse range of musical works, students will develop their creative skills and gain a deeper understanding of the art of composing and songwriting. The unit will cover topics such as melody, harmony, rhythm, lyrics, form, and arrangement.

KMB119 Sound Recording and Audio Production

This introductory unit introduces you to the fundamental principles of music and sound production through a mix of theory and practice. You will gain an understanding of sound recording, audio processing and editing, and live sound reinforcement while developing listening skills essential for music and sound production. The unit prepares you for later music production and recording studio-based units. Understanding how to capture and manipulate sound in live and recorded domains are core skills for anyone involved in making music or in any associated creative practice that involves the use of audio. You will develop a critical and practical understanding of the physical properties of sound, how it is perceived, and how it is recorded and processed to produce a final musical outcome. Sustainability concepts related to music production, including gender inclusivity, cultural awareness, and responsible technology use, will be introduced.

KMB127 Music Studies

The unit will look at music through a number of scholarly lenses, introducing how music can be understood from social, historical, cultural, and musicological perspectives. Students will critically explore concepts of style and genre in music, Western and non-Western musical contexts (including Australian First Peoples music and culture), globalisation, race, gender and sustainability in music, combining theoretical perspectives with creative practice. The unit challenges students to look at music critically and develop their understanding of how the uses and meanings of music are dependent on context. This unit helps students to understand the different roles that music plays in our lives, and how local and global forces shape music production and consumption.

KMB129 Composition and Sound Design in Digital Environments

This unit introduces you to sequencing, sound synthesis, signal processing, and critical listening in digital environments as approaches to contemporary music composition and production. The unit builds upon fundamentals of sound and recording presented in Sound Recording and Audio Production. You will gain an understanding of the approaches and aesthetics that underpin music production and performance in the digital domain. Relevant sustainability concepts related to gender inclusivity, cultural awareness, responsible technology use and production supply chains will explored. The unit prepares you for later music creation units.

KMB217 Music Creation 1

This unit provides skills and understanding to create new music across a range of musical practices in performance, production and composition. It introduces musical contexts and concepts to help you to better understand your practice and that of your peers within a complex professional environment, and to be better positioned and equipped to respond appropriately. Successful musicians need to form and negotiate their creative practice within a complex professional environment. They need to develop critical skills to understand their music in context and how it can be connected to an audience. This unit establishes a platform for your practical skills in the creation and presentation of new music. As the first of four units in creative practice, it provides an opportunity for you to explore and present creative ideas with peers in a professionally engaged environment.

Professional communication

CCB307 Digital Advertising and Public Relations Capstone

This capstone unit prepares work-ready graduates by developing students’ adaptive capabilities to thrive in the ever-changing professions of advertising and public relations. It integrates prior knowledge of advertising and/or public relations theories, research, industry trends, and skills of contemporary professional practices required in a convergent digital media and communication world. Through classwork, independent study, and engagement with real-world projects, students develop an understanding of the local and international relevance of their chosen studies, with opportunities to produce a range of communication outcomes as applied and engagement projects that works to advance employability. This unit offers an opportunity for students to attempt the kind of work they admire in industry, in the process creating a communication portfolio and an issue-based strategy plan that reflects the cumulative learning from their degree and mastery of their chosen discipline/major.

CWB111 Scientific and Technical Writing

This unit introduces you to the principles of writing clearly in a science-based context and to the discursive frameworks that inform scientific and technical writing. It aims to provide you with an understanding of the conventions of writing and publishing scientific and technical information and to develop skills in communicating this information for a general audience. Graduates in the fields of engineering, science and information technology are required to assess high volumes of information and to communicate key scientific and technical ideas to a general audience. As such, there are growing industry and research demands for graduates with professional writing skills that deliver clear and well-structured written information about complex material.

CWB200 Interpersonal and Intercultural Negotiation

This unit introduces the wider context of cultural practices that inform communication at the individual and social levels. The unit explores how communication in the workplace and other professional contexts is influenced by factors such as power dynamics, gender, nationality, cultural norms, and ethnicity. It develops your engagement with the theories of and skills for successful intercultural and interpersonal exchange in business and professional relationships in a global context. Your career will be shaped by global forces, events, and contexts. Therefore, to be a global effective communication practitioner, you will need to see communication in the context of social and cultural norms and assumptions.

CWB203 Strategic Speech

The ability to present a spoken message is a highly desirable skill in education, employment and life. Across a range of fields and professions, graduates will have many opportunities to speak in a variety of contexts, both live and mediated. Taking an audience-centred approach, this unit focuses on creating and analysing spoken messages. It introduces theories of language, rhetoric and persuasion which are interrelated to promote understanding and development of your communication skills. Regular practice sessions in a safe and supportive learning environment will enhance skills needed to become competent and confident communicators. An emphasis on self-reflection supports the importance of ongoing development of these skills.

CWB204 Persuasive Communication

This unit provides rhetorical tools, strategies, techniques, and practices of analysis related to strategic communication in professional and workplace contexts. It teaches methods of persuasive communication which allows practitioners to create and understand influential messages. Examples of rhetoric in action are taken from technical, political, and business communication as well as other fields such as creative industries. As a professional communication practitioner, you should be able to understand the principles of persuasion, use the vocabulary of persuasion and evaluate the efficacy of different persuasive strategies. You will be given opportunities to create sophisticated communication artefacts that inform, persuade and instruct depending on the specifics of audience and context. Please note the online offering of this unit will be available to eligible online BCI students only.

Visual arts

KAB110 Open Studio: Experiment

This unit provides the foundations of the Open Studio, introducing experimental art practice through the creative processes and critical concepts of modern and contemporary art. The ability to iteratively experiment across diverse art media is a crucial skill in the development of a creative practice. This unit explores a range of digital and material approaches to creative experimentation and process art, developing skills in art thinking and collaboration, and introducing key principles such as the art manifesto, the artist journal, and the art studio.

KAB120 Open Studio: Image

This unit introduces experimental approaches to 2D art with a focus on image-making, representation and identity. Contemporary artists explore creative and critical interpretations of images in an expanded field of 2D art media – working across photography, printmaking, drawing, collage and painting. This unit is focused on introducing conceptual and practical skills in relation to these distinctive media and understanding diverse artistic practices and cultural perspectives.

KAB130 Open Studio: Object/Space

This unit introduces experimental approaches and expanded 3D art practice in the open studio including sculpture, objects, assemblage, environments and installation. These investigations are grounded in understanding 20th and 21st century art practices and key theoretical frameworks in relation to object-making, spatial art, context and site. The expanded field of contemporary sculpture encompasses a broad range of conceptual approaches and material processes including social sculpture, environmental and public art. This unit provides practical activities to develop independent 3D artworks, framed by the theory and practice of site-responsive art and by contemporary Indigenous and ecological perspectives.

KAB140 Open Studio: Time

This unit introduces experimental approaches to 4D media in relation to the open studio and the expanded field of contemporary art. Art practices that creatively explore the interplay between video, sound, performance, installation and digital art invite audiences to critically engage with embodied, interactive, participatory and immersive modes of techno-cultural experience. This unit considers conceptual frameworks and contextual practices in relation to time, the body, duration, and experience. You will engage in a diverse range of practical activities to produce and present independent artworks that investigate time.

KVB104 Photo Media and Art Practice

This unit develops an appreciation of the conceptual, cultural and historical contexts of photo media, addressing visual literacy, critical artistic enquiry, and the protocols related to ethical photo media practice. Photo media, which involves the use of diverse photographic processes, plays an important role in contemporary creative practices because of its pervasiveness and its application across a broad range of cultural and conceptual contexts. Photo imaging may also be the predominant mode of specific artists within a broader multidisciplinary approach to practice. This unit introduces a diverse range of contemporary artistic photo imaging concepts and methods as part of a trajectory of photographic history. It provides the opportunity to experiment with a variety of approaches to understand and create engaging and informed photo image portfolios.

KVB210 Time-Based Art: Moving Images

This unit introduces the theory and practice of the moving image as an art form. It addresses ideas and languages in relation to contemporary video and filmic art and what it shares with television, cinema and other time-based media. These concepts inform the development of methods and skills in practical experience by creating moving-image artwork. The unit looks also at literacy in the meaning, formal codes and conventions of moving images in order to encourage critical and analytical thinking that can be used to effectively communicate concepts through creative practice. An expansive range of video, filmic and time-based imagery currently dominates the cultural landscape. This unit engages with the conceptual and artistic possibilities of moving images which constitute a crucial graduate capability for those committed to building a professional practice in visual meaning-making and communication.

KVB216 Post 1945 Art

This unit introduces the historical, philosophical, economic, political, social, cultural, artistic and formal issues related to art production since 1945 and into the post-modern era. It covers topics on neo-avant-garde, and art's engagement with consumerism, the philosophical underpinnings of movements such as Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Performance and Earthworks, Feminist art practice, and post-modern art and architecture. The study of these movements will assist you in understanding the history behind arts production and the styles that have been adopted by other creative industries. This unit provides a skill-base for all Creative Industries students and applies to all disciplines and cultural industries including art criticism, arts practice, architecture, landscape architecture, fashion and music. You will also increase understanding and skills that are pertinent to the study of cultural literature and visual analysis.

KVB223 Post 1989 Art

This unit introduces key ideas and styles of art practice that have emerged since 1989 in a global economy. It develops knowledge and skills that are relevant to cultural literature and visual analysis. It furthers your expertise in problem solving, creative thinking and effective communication of knowledge in a variety of contexts and modes. As a creative industries student, it is important to possess an informed knowledge of art and culture since 1989, including the rise of the experience economy and the centrality of entertainment and post-avant-garde art in global creative industries. The concepts and knowledge gained will aid you to organise and evaluate information, synthesise research material into a coherent form, and write and verbally articulate ideas. This unit is intended to provide a foundation skill-base for you in Creative Industries and is applicable to all disciplines including art criticism, arts practice, architecture and fashion.

Visual communication

DVB101 Visual Communication Design

This unit introduces the principles and conventions associated with the interpretation and production of meaning through visual representation. Visual Communication is based on the creation of meaning through image and text and this plays a critical role in our contemporary world which is visually and media driven. Visual communicators require a deep understanding of conceptual development, design process, typography and image making, and how image-based communication occurs. You will learn how to think and operate as a visual designer through studio-based learning and a series of industry-focused experiences.

DVB305 Design for Health Innovation

The contribution of design-led approaches and methods to innovations in eHealth and healthcare services and technologies is increasing. Challenges impacting Australian and international health sectors require skills and knowledge of consumer- and user-centric approaches. You will become familiar with theoretical frameworks for health and wellbeing and develop knowledge of contemporary design-led approaches to the development of health and wellbeing services, products and experiences. This unit addresses theories, approaches, methods and applications of design to the context of health and wellbeing. It takes into account multiple stakeholder perspectives: health professionals, patients and carers. You will deepen you design skills and knowledge of methods used in Design Thinking to conceptualise, develop and produce a design prototype.

Units you need background knowledge to study

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Creative industries

Communication

CCN111 Social Media Data Analytics

Knowing how to analyse social media data sets to answer questions and make decisions that improve content and engagement is a fundamental skill for contemporary communication professionals. It is also essential that future focused communication professionals have both an understanding of how computational technologies transform the world of communication, and the hands-on skills to collect and analyse data. It is included in the early part of the program to develop your foundational data analytics knowledge and computational thinking.

CCN113 Social Media Strategy Project

This Work Integrated Learning unit synthesises the knowledge and skills developed in earlier foundational units associated with effective social media management. It applies them to a professional media and communication industries context. The unit supports the development of collaborative teamwork skills to respond to a real client brief. This reflects the kinds of work that professional communicators undertake.

CCN201 Digital Transformation of Media Industries and the Future of Work

This unit explores how digital transformation impacts on media and communication industries and the working lives of communication professionals. To develop effective communication strategies and pursue work opportunities, communication professionals need to have an understanding of emerging trends in media industries, and how to thrive in this environment as a digital communication professional. As such, the unit provides an advanced and critical understanding of digital transformation, how it disrupts the communication and media industries, and the specific implications for the future of digital communication professionals.

CCN202 Automating the Digital World

This unit introduces contemporary research on the impacts and ethical implications of automation for communication, media, and society. It explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other forms of automation are transforming communication, the media and communication industry and the wider society. It also addresses the ethical issues surrounding how these technologies are used. It is critically important that digital communication professionals have a future-focused orientation towards emerging technologies that are likely to further disrupt media and communications environments.

CCN204 Audience Analytics

Digital technologies have transformed the way communicators engage with and understand diverse media audiences. This unit will explore the fundamental theoretical frameworks, methods and metrics for identifying and understanding audiences. An applied and critical understanding of audience analytics is crucial for communication professionals. This unit builds upon and deepens the ideas and methods for audience analysis introduced in earlier units in this course.

CCN205 Data-Driven Storytelling

This unit examines visual communication for information and the application of principles for effective information design. Understanding and engaging with the ever-growing quantities of data is a challenge for both organisations and individuals. Increasingly, experts are required to not only evaluate and prepare this data, but also to identify and communicate it within organisations, or to stakeholders, clients, users, community groups, etc. The effective visual communication of those stories in the data is a design process informed by advanced principles of information design and is critical for audience engagement. Data-driven storytelling is an advanced visual information design unit.

CCN206 Communicating with Bots

This unit introduces the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) and bots as effective tools for communication planning and execution. It examines the impact of such technologies on communication planning and practice, and the skills required to develop bots. The unit provides the hands-on experience of applying technology to develop bots that algorithmically communicate via social media platforms. Communication professionals need to understand how to use emerging technologies such as AI to innovatively engage with their users and audiences. Bots, generally defined as “a computer program that performs automatic repetitive tasks”, and other technologies in the field of AI are changing the way communication is planned and executed, and how stories are told and evolve across social media platforms.

Creative arts

KKB285 Creative Enterprise Studio 2

This unit furthers your theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to develop enterprise focused creative projects. It links with work previously undertaken in KKB185 Creative Enterprise Studio 1 and prepares you for the final semester capstone unit KKB385 Creative Enterprise Studio 3. You will build upon your foundational understanding of project development gained in KKB185 and develop skills in project delivery and management through to prototyping your creative idea. The concept of iterative design is introduced through reflection on the success of the prototype and recommendations for future iterations and creative experimentation. This unit allows you to extend your project development skills including field analysis, creative experimentation, communication, problem solving and project evaluation.

KKB385 Creative Enterprise Studio 3

During this capstone unit you will demonstrate creative leadership by initiating an industry linked creative project. It brings together the skills and knowledge acquired throughout your course, drawing specifically from KKB185 Creative Enterprise Studio 1 and KKB285 Creative Enterprise Studio 2. The unit provides you with a framework to develop a project proposal that addresses an identified opportunity. You will then initiate your project proposal, launching your career as a creative industries professional.

KRB130 Set and Spatial Design

This unit focuses on set and spatial design approaches to shaping worlds for live performances, film and television, installations and creative encounters. Through a mix of practical exploration and analysis of professional practice, the unit delivers skills, techniques and concepts to equip you in designing spaces within your individual creative practice. You will learn how the foundational elements of production design are applied in professional practice and how they can enhance your own creative work. Through the lecture series, you will be exposed to a range of design styles and genres and discover key elements of set and spatial design. The workshops and the assessment items provide the opportunity to apply set and spatial design skills to a creative area of your choice. This unit complements disciplines such as Acting & Drama, Dance, Contemporary Art, Film, Screen & Animation, Music, Fashion, Interaction Design, Architecture & Interior Design.

KRB131 Lighting Design for Creative Arts

The unit focuses on the creative application of light in creative practice. From live performance, film, exhibitions and galleries, installations, and more, this unit will introduce you to the fundamentals of lighting design practice and approaches. You will explore a range of lighting technologies, apply essential practical lighting techniques, as well as how to approach lighting the body and spaces, as well as use the characteristics of light to convey meaning and create atmosphere. This unit would complement any creative discipline that requires or curates light - Acting & Drama, Dance, Contemporary Art, Film, Screen & Animation, Music, Fashion, Interaction Design, Architecture, and Interior Design.

KRB230 Digital Scenography

This unit investigates how performance technologies can be used as key design and storytelling tools within production design and creative experiences. "Digital scenography” is a growing approach that integrates the digital into the form, function and design of a creative work, exploring how the digital can be used to interrogate meaning, narratives, and the human experience. From projection and screen technologies to immersive digital scenographies, this unit will equip you with the skills and conceptual approaches to integrate the digital into production design practices across live performance, contemporary art, dance and more. This unit is ideal for students wanting to design with visual digital technologies as a crucial worldbuilding tools. This unit complements disciplines such as Acting & Drama, Dance, Contemporary Art, Film, Screen & Animation, Music, Interaction Design, Architecture, and Interior Design.

KYB220 Creative Professional Practice

This unit focuses on the varying professional settings and contexts of your creative practice. It is a core unit in the Bachelor of Fine Arts. It will discuss ideas such as: the development of a professional identity and presenting yourself publicly; the art of pitching and developing proposals and grant applications; creative and social entrepreneurship and defining a market for your creative practice; professional agreements and processes, such as contracts, copyright and intellectual property, how to document your creative works and creative practices for professional contexts; how to appraise key industry opportunities and devise professional strategies relevant to building an ethical and sustainable career in creative practice and the creative industries.

KZB260 Advanced Script Development

Narrative drama script development occurs across a range of creative contexts and for a variety of media such as film, television, theatre, streaming services, web series, podcasting, radio drama, animation and story-driven, role-playing games. Often success in one medium can lead to IP being adapted for another. Being able to write for the theatre, the screen or the ear can help build a sustainable writing career. This advanced unit builds skills and knowledge in script development processes to enable you to conceive, develop, write and pitch a compelling short script for a medium of your own choosing.

Creative writing

KWB306 Creative Writing Project 1

This unit provides an opportunity to develop an extended creative writing project in your preferred and strongest genre and form. It will allow you to plan and propose an extended piece of creative work through a series of intensive highly participatory tutorials in collaboration with peer critique groups. Though the major covers a range of writing genres, you choose your strongest genre and write with both breadth and complexity. This unit supports you to demonstrate that you have developed a sophisticated voice or style over the three years of study. The piece of work commenced here will continue to be built on in KWB326 Creative Writing Project 2.

KWB326 Creative Writing Project 2

This unit provides a unique learning opportunity to complete a sustained body of creative work in a genre or form of your choice and identify market and publication strategies for your work. Building on the project commenced in KWB306 Creative Writing Project 1, it offers you the opportunity to continue work on an extended piece of creative writing with the assistance of critiques and peer feedback. The unit aids you to identify markets for creative practice, develop skills and strategies to submit work to publishers for professional consideration, and identify and create pathways for publication.

Dance

KDB206 Dance in Contemporary Culture

This unit builds upon embodied knowledge and dance practice developed in KDB122 Popular Dance Styles. Through a series of seminars and practical workshops you will explore different trends in the role and place of dance in contemporary culture. You will explore dance's place in society and the development of trends such as Dance in Museums, Hip-hop culture, Dance as a Political Intervention, and Dance for Well-being.

KDB218 Performance in Context 1

This project-based unit develops technique, artistry, communication skills, performance ability and confidence through lectures, presentations, workshops, and student-led rehearsals,. It will enable you to use, adapt and transform your skills for artistic expression in various performing domains including collaborative and interdisciplinary practice. This is the first of two units introducing you to the practice of the Teaching Artist as a facilitator of dance-led experiences. You will apply your developed knowledge of technical skills and artistic practice in the creation of a dance work. These skills are best developed in specific contexts to foster adaptability in dance performance, creative process and workshop settings.

KDB219 Sharing Dance

Sharing Dance explores how digital platforms can be utilised to share dance/embodied knowledge. In this unit you will survey applications of digital technologies and platforms for dance training and sharing embodied practice with others. You will appraise the combination of technology and methodologies for teaching and/or sharing of embodied/dance knowledge from a diverse range of applications. In the studio you will explore the neuroscience of learning to dance and apply knowledge from neuroscience to develop your own methodologies for sharing your dance/embodied knowledge via a self-identified digital platform. By participating in a series of studio-based movement workshops where theory and practice are intertwined, you will discover how approaches from neuroscience assist in learning to dance, and how dance and embodied practices enable you to find alternate ways of thinking through your body, and modes for sharing this with others.

KDB318 Performance in Context 2

This unit aims to enable you to use, adapt and transform your skills for artistic expression in a specific performing domain including collaborative and interdisciplinary practice. As such, this project-based unit provides the context in which you will develop technique, artistry, communication skills, performance ability and confidence through professionally guided rehearsals, classes, performances and workshops. It is the second of two units which builds on the practice of the Teaching Artist as a facilitator of dance-led creative experiences. You will apply your developed knowledge of technical skill and artistic practice to the creation of a performance situated within a specific context while exploring your role as a Teaching Artist from different perspectives.

KDB319 Dance Project

Dance Project is a research-based unit in which you will design and conduct a research project on a topic you propose that is relevant to the dance professional you seek to be. You will present your project findings within an essay and accompanying creative work/s or portfolio. Thorough research will be required to contextualise, critically discuss and situate your project in relation to current debates, emergent developments and perspectives in dance scholarship and related fields. Your project may include live performance, film, installation, dance scores, choreographic objects, workshop outlines, class materials, case studies, reviews or any other relevant practical application for your chosen topic. Dance Project offers you the opportunity to pursue your specific interest, drawing on your learning to date and extending your creative and cognitive skills in synthesising and evaluating information, practical research, project management and research design.

KDB320 Independent Dance Project

This unit enables you to adapt and transform your dance skills for artistic expression and is the culmination of your previous two Performance in Context units. This guided experience supports you to develop your skills to work independently and to establish your practice as a teaching artist through the key processual stages including conception, development and realisation of your ideas. You will apply your integrated knowledge of technical skills and artistic practice to effectively initiate and realise an independent dance project. This self-contained, discrete project will enable you to develop your skills, professional identity and aptitude for engagement within a variety of industry contexts.

Design

DYB102 Impact Lab: Society and Systems

This unit addresses methods of social impact design and the ways in which these approaches can contribute to transformational social and community focused change. In it, you experience how design approaches and tools can be applied to complex social and community-based challenges. In a context where design can foster inclusion and act as a disruptor and driver for positive change you as a designer, alongside your design peers, have the collective potential to lead or make a better future. Framed around real world challenges; and in partnership with community, government and/or industry partners; you will engage with transdisciplinary design-led participatory entrepreneurial strategies to address key issues within one or more communities. This will develop skills valuable in designing for social impact. This impact lab focuses on people, to foreground the importance of keeping the human condition at the heart of design practice which enables solutions aimed at social change.

DYB301 Design Portfolio for Professional Practice

This unit is a capstone professional practice experience - providing you with an opportunity to explore and define your design purpose and identity, foster career aspirations and expand your professional network. Through this unit you will develop your knowledge and expectations of professional practice and navigate career opportunities. The unit will assist you as you transition from student to professional, translating what you have learned and experienced over the course of your degree to be able to professionally present your skills, knowledge and capabilities into a meaningful and purposeful portfolio, as well as excel at job interviews.

Drama

KRB121 Scenography 2: Creating Worlds for Theatre

This unit introduces you to the practical concepts and processes associated with the creation of scenography – the world of the theatrical performance. It explores the practical application of the core elements of scenography including set, costume, light, sound and vision, while considering other key performance elements including space, time, narrative, character, performers and audience. The unit facilitates practical application and experience in solving the challenges faced by the scenographer. This includes the demands of crafting and communicating a theatre design, using relevant industry software to model set designs, and the ongoing challenge of documenting the creative process and product. It combines practical investigations with in-depth lectures on the application of design, including the role of the contemporary production designers, the design process and techniques.

KRB220 Scenography 3: Into the 21st Century

In this unit, you will interrogate the evolution of scenography through the 20th Century into the 21st Century within the changing fields of theatre and performance. Through an investigation of key shifts, significant developments, and leading practitioners of this time, the notion of scenography and its role in theatre and performance is questioned. You will be exposed to a broad range of scenographic and performance movements, practitioners and styles which will shape your future experimentation in design for performance.

KRB221 Scenography 4: Intermedial Theatre

This unit introduces scenographic techniques and approaches for intermedial theatre such as conceptualisation through to realisation, while offering an appreciation of the overall production process. It explores the practical realisation of the principles of intermedial theatre - the use of space and technology; the design and composition of visual and aural environments; the demands and effect of the digitally mediated upon the narrative, production, performers and audience. The unit is structured to incorporate a degree of practical application and experience in solving the challenges faced by the designer working in theatre, including 'hands-on' experience of the processes and demands of realising an intermedial performance. As the final unit in the Scenography minor, this studio-based unit comprises predominantly ongoing practical work that you complete under the close guidance and instruction of QUT academic staff.

KSB110 The Actor's Instrument: Impact and Presence

This introductory unit addresses the fundamentals of dynamic movement and voice production for actors, exploring foundational skills that focus on embodied impact and presence. Highly developed technical proficiency in vocal and physical expressiveness is a fundamental requirement for professional actors. This unit introduces core techniques and concepts associated with safe movement and vocal production for actors working in screen and stage contexts, including foundational ensemble development for collaborative practice informed and strengthened by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural practices. These skills will inform every acting exercise or collaborative project undertaken through the three years of your course and beyond.

KSB115 Acting Realism, Theories and Practices

This foundational unit introduces you to the core theories of acting in the genre of realism and explores how they can be applied to the development of professional acting methods and practice, and to an understanding of the actor’s creative role in traditional and contemporary theatre-making, and to the collaborative protocols that underpin it. It also introduces you to contemporary approaches to dramaturgical and textual analysis, that enable you to identify and apply the elements of a dramatic text that stimulate the imaginative procedures specific to the art form of acting. The aim of this unit is to help you build a foundation of cognitive, imaginative, and embodied learning skills centring on acting practice, to enable you to continue developing your craft autonomously and in a systematic, informed way.

KSB120 The Actor's Instrument: Communication and Composition

This introductory unit focuses on the continuing acquisition of instrumental skills associated with developing impact and presence in physical and vocal expressiveness, and now applies them to the communication and shaping of dramatic meaning. Highly developed technical proficiency in vocal and physical expressiveness is a fundamental requirement for professional actors. This unit builds on core techniques and concepts introduced in KSB110 associated with theoretical notions of vocal and physical transformation for actors working in screen and stage contexts.

KSB125 Theatricality and the Contemporary Audience

This introductory unit develops your understanding and skills in creating acting performances that dynamically engage with live audiences, requiring you to investigate ways of combining physical and vocal embodiment with genre-appropriate, audience-focused staging conventions. Your enquiry includes exploring how realism and theatricality can be combined to intensify the impact on the audience of dramatic meaning, social commentary and visual storytelling. This enquiry will be informed by engagement with a range of play texts and theoretical perspectives relating to acting issues associated with this form of theatre and its political, social and cultural contexts. The unit challenges you to apply your developing acting, voice, imaginative and embodiment skills and techniques, to the demands associated with performing dynamic roles from complex source material of different genres and cultural contexts.

KSB240 Screen Acting Theories and Practice

The screen-based industries provide actors with the opportunity to reach wide audiences and to potentially build national and global careers, as well as create sustainable, independent, entrepreneurial practice. This unit introduces analytical, technical and performance practice associated with contemporary acting for camera in both traditional and emerging screen technologies. The focus is on exploring the application of analytical skills to acting materials written for screen, the development of specific acting techniques sensitive to technical elements such as frame, eyeline and continuity; and an understanding of simple studio production technologies and their associated personnel, workflow and purpose.

KSB245 Performing Ideas, Ideology and Social Critique

This intermediate unit sees the creative application of acting and research skills to respond to contemporary plays that confront complex cultural, political or social issues, with scenes to be staged for live audiences and then adapted to being filmed in screen studio settings. These can include the challenge to act in scenes that require considerable investment in understanding complex ideas, fusing psychological and political/philosophical perspectives, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, unusual given circumstances, or digital/green screen environments. (There may also be scenes requiring the application of explicit consent-based protocols such as those that regulate the portrayal of intimacy or violence.)

KSB310 Character and Location

This unit aims to develop the actor’s ability to make highly individual creative choices in relation to text, scene partner and real or imagined settings (whether domestic, public, natural or fantasy environments) while being aware of and playing to a range of viewer responses and agendas. The unit focuses on applying dramaturgical understanding and advanced acting skills to the creation of screen characters that draw on their physical and cultural locations.

KTB114 Interpreting Dramatic Text

Through critical engagement with theories of dramatic interpretation, this foundational unit provides introductory learning experiences to help you effectively perform dramatic text. The notion of “text” is understood as potentially covering a broad range of artefacts and creative stimulus, from classical scripts to inter-disciplinary creative artefacts and even inanimate chosen objects. This unit enables you to develop and apply skills of theatrical interpretation and performance through practice-led process methodologies grounded in theories of dramatic interpretation, rehearsal, and performance. You will work with your peers to critically engage with the interpretation of a source text, before being provided the opportunity to develop a performance of the text and implement the core performing skills needed for this.

KTB115 Devising Drama

This unit introduces models of devising to create a new performance work under the guidance of a tutor/director. The work will be devised in groups and performed at the end of semester. Past and present practitioners have proven that key creatives of many kinds can lead the creation of dramatic works through collaborative models of performance making, which often aspire to include a range of voices, innovating in both form and content.

KTB216 Drama Practice: Interpretation

This unit enables you to build and apply skills of theatrical interpretation and performance through a practice-led process of script-based rehearsal and performance of selected scenes. Performance making stems from three fundamental strategies: interpretation, transformation and generation. Interpretation is the process of creating meaning from an extant work; analysis, research and contextualisation are the tools by which the meaning and significance of performance texts are revealed, developed and actioned by the collaborative group. Led by creative practice, this intermediate unit builds on introductory learning experiences to aid you to effectively perform as Drama practitioners.

KTB218 Curating Drama Experiences

This unit recognises performance makers, drama educators, directors, performers, dramaturgs and community arts workers all need to understand how to shape and lead engaging drama experiences for a range of performative contexts. Through theory and practice, this unit provides a foundational platform for the development of a process-driven performance practice, including the selection and sequencing of dramatic conventions, elements, and context to generate meaning and dramatic experiences. This unit challenges particular assumptions and widely held views about the way dramatic action is created, encountered and used by performance makers and audiences, operating in an environment keenly aware of diversity and sustainability as key components of all drama-based art practices.

KTB311 Dramatic Developments

This advanced practice-led unit synthesises and builds on skills and knowledge developed across the degree and is designed to facilitate connections between theory and practice in the creation of an original concept for a performative outcome. You will research, propose, experiment and conceptualise a performance, scripted or devised, that responds to bigger critical and creative conversations, as well as addressing potential industry destinations for the concept you craft. Articulation of development processes will form a critical component of your learning.

KTB316 Drama Practice: Generation

This practice-led advanced unit integrates previous drama practice units, Leadership Dynamics in Performance and Radical Theatre Forms, into a collaborative capstone experience. In consultation with experienced practitioners, this unit activates a process of investigation and generation and employs the theory, skills and practice gathered through the course. You will generate, research, experiment, conceptualise and propose a potentially interdisciplinary work that responds to bigger critical and creative conversations. Indeed, the development of a self-determining practice is dependent on various factors: a mature relationship with collaborators; confidence informed by a sense of personal creative purpose and knowledge; an understanding of the function of research in creating performances with integrity; and a commitment to creating and communicating a shared vision.

KTB326 Drama Practice: Realisation

This advanced unit enables you to independently realise a new work on the page, stage or in between, responding to real world opportunities you may pursue after graduation. Interpretation, transformation and generation all have a role to play in realising a new creative work. This unit activates the foundations of prior drama practice units in a capstone experience which enables you to further develop your creative practice. Successful creative practice is measured by degrees of expertise, diligence and awareness that are acknowledged by audiences, peers and industry. Talent aside, much is dependent on working with others to converge drama theory, skills and practice into proposals, presentations or performances that possess viability and integrity. It is also reliant on the capacity of individuals and groups to formulate and respond to critique and successfully navigate dynamic uncertainties of creative realisation to fashion a viable outcome.

Entertainment industries

CDB201 Entertainment Strategy

This unit develops an advanced, critical, in-depth understanding of economic and labour aspects of the media and entertainment industries. It examines key strategies and trends of entertainment management and work across media platforms, locations and audiences. This unit will give you a broad overview of the financial and commercial elements behind how a wide variety of entertainment products are made, circulated, and consumed. You will learn about emerging business models, changing labour conditions, the tensions of creativity and commercialisation, the role of fans, and dealing with the day-to-day commercial requirements of a creative venture. You will learn the core strategies entertainment producers use to bring creative ideas to life as they strive for a sustainable outcome.

Fashion

DFB110 Fashion Design Studio 1

This unit provides introductory knowledge and skills for the theory and practice of fashion design, focusing on three dimensional design, draping and organic forms. This foundational unit provides knowledge of theoretical and cultural fashion contexts that underpin concept driven fashion design. It addresses fashion design principles and processes, including the development of effective skills to communicate expressively and realise design ideas in an integrated studio environment. The suite of six Fashion Design Studio units form the foundation of learning for understanding fashion design in the Bachelor of Design (Fashion) program. Embedded in this program is a focus on ethical and sustainable practices.

DFB111 Fashion Design Studio 2

This unit provides introductory knowledge and skills for the theory and practice of fashion design, focusing on flat patternmaking and classic western design forms. This foundational unit provides knowledge and skills for the theory and practice of structured fashion design. It addresses fashion design principles, processes and contexts, including the development of effective skills to communicate digitally and realise design ideas in an integrated studio environment. The suite of six Fashion Design Studio units form the foundation of learning for understanding fashion design in the Bachelor of Design (Fashion) program. Embedded in this program is a focus on ethical and sustainable practices.

DFB204 Fashion Product Development

This unit further develops your knowledge, skills and application for professional fashion communication and product development in the fashion industry. It focuses on commercial fashion design and product styling. Developing consumer products in the fashion industry requires diverse skills and knowledge in trend analysis, range building, sourcing, finishing, specification sheets and marketing to ensure successful and sustainable outcomes. By developing a foundational knowledge in product development you will be prepared to work in commercial fashion or to create your own fashion brand.

DFB206 Global Fashion Cultures

This unit further develops your knowledge of the complexities of global fashion systems and builds on the application of your skills in fashion visual communication with an emphasis on visual analysis. It focuses on the diverse aesthetics and practices of global fashion cultures since the mid-twentieth century. The aim of this unit is to develop your knowledge of the diversity of global fashion aesthetics since the mid-twentieth century while focusing on consumer-led fashion developments alongside high-end designer fashion of this period. As such, it will deepen your knowledge of how design is connected to social and cultural developments.

DFB210 Fashion Design Studio 3

This unit builds developmentally on previous fashion studio knowledge to navigate the structure and requirements of professional fashion contexts. It develops effective skills to communicate and realise design ideas in an integrated studio environment. It provides expanded knowledge and skills for the theory and practice of fashion design and includes practical skills and knowledge of pattern cutting, garment construction and applied technologies for the communication of design ideas. Embedded in this unit is a focus on ethical practices. The suite of Fashion Design Studio units form the foundation of learning for understanding fashion design in the Bachelor of Design (Fashion Design) program.

DFB211 Fashion Design Studio 4

This unit provides knowledge of fashion design for public consumption. In this unit, you will develop and expand skills to conceptualise, communicate and realise design ideas for mass manufacture in an integrated studio environment. You will build on your previously acquired research, conceptual and fabrication skills as well as develop and apply sustainable fashion practice knowledge. You will synthesise your understanding of product development and retail readiness and will learn about the logistical and practical considerations of fashion design and production. The suite of Fashion Design Studio units form the foundation of learning for understanding fashion design in the Bachelor of Design (Fashion) program.

DFB305 Fashion Justice

This advanced level unit deepens your critical fashion engagement and consolidates your skills in fashion communication. It prepares you to play a leadership role in shaping the dialogues that are transforming fashion practices. The aim of this unit is to develop your critical, analytical and communication skills in the context of the global fashion industry and wider cultural debates. Embracing an interdisciplinary approach characteristic of current fashion scholarship, this final unit builds on the theoretical and practical knowledge developed in DFB206 Global Fashion Cultures and DFB209 Global Fashion History and provides you with the opportunity to develop sophisticated research and written communication skills, preparing you to contribute to shaping the dialogues and debates that are changing the contemporary fashion industry.

DFB310 Fashion Design Studio 5

This unit is the fifth in a series of six Fashion Design Studio units in the Bachelor of Design Fashion program and provides advanced knowledge and skills for the theory and practice of fashion design exploring your individual design identity contextualised within critical and ethical parameters. It focuses on researching and documenting your individual design identity, including the development of advanced skills to research, communicate and realise design ideas in an integrated studio environment. The unit builds upon the understandings acquired in the unit DFB211 Fashion Design Studio 4 and also provides a launch platform to explore in depth your individual design identity culminating in DFB311 Fashion Design Studio 6. The suite of Fashion Design Studio units form the spine of learning for fashion design understandings in the Bachelor of Design Fashion program and include practical skills and knowledge of garment construction and pattern cutting.

DFB311 Fashion Design Studio 6

This 24 credit point unit is the capstone Fashion Design Studio experience and aims to provide you with the opportunity to synthesise your prior learning, within university and the workplace, through the production of a final year project that will be outward looking. Within this unit you will develop your confidence and ability to work with minimal supervision in preparation for graduation exploring your individual style and target audience. During this unit you will complete your final year project and will have the opportunity to apply to present your work in a graduate show or other external event. This unit may form part of the Honours component for continuing DE42 Bachelor of Design (Honours) students.

Film, screen & animation

KNB115 Crafting Motion in 3D

Enhancing your core animation skill set, you will focus on expressing qualities of character within animated outcomes. With reference to historical and contemporary precedents, you will gain a thorough grounding that will foster the knowledge required to advance in digital character animation. Incorporating a critique and analysis of body mechanics, expression and body language, students will explore and experiment with the nuances of real-world physics within a character animation context. This unit provides students with a comprehensive understanding of 3D animation, while reflecting upon present day technological methods involving aspects such as machine learning, performance capture and optimization with algorithms and the impact on animating characters. A final animated outcome will challenge you through a practice-led investigation of body mechanics and the subtle relationship with character behaviour, applying complex locomotion to an original bipedal character.

KNB215 Animation Performance

This unit advances knowledge on animation performance, including your ability to create complex animations by applying relevant processes and theories. To bring a character to life requires an animator to create more than a sound illusion of movement, you have to communicate and engage a viewer through an animated performance. This unit builds upon the fundamental content from KNB135 Animation Aesthetics, refining and further expanding on simple mechanical movements to focus on expressive communication and characterisation for storytelling.

KNB216 Visual Storytelling: Cinematic Pre-Visualisation

Following exposure to animation's capabilities through critical thinking and practice, the unit builds on methodologies, skills and knowledge acquired in KNB136. The language of cinema is further explored and deployed for productions demonstrating critical practice. This unit deploys cinematic grammar, such as close-ups, composition, continuity, cutting and camera angles, to arrive at an understanding of the transition from literary (text) to visual language. You will be expected to demonstrate your appreciation and comprehension of screen language through rich illustrations that lead to vibrant storyboards and engaging animatics that culminate in enriched storytelling.

KNB217 Digital Creatures

This unit focuses on the creation of culturally contextualised narrative 3D characters within cinematic styles and genres of your choice. Building upon modeling and texturing techniques introduced in KNB127 CGI Foundations and KNB137 Digital Worlds, this unit covers an integral part of the animation production workflow focused on character design contextualized by a specific narrative, modeling texturing, and rigging. On completion of the unit, you will have an understanding of the theoretical and practical foundations of design of a production-ready 3D digital creature as characters.

KNB225 Advanced Animation Performance

This unit advances your knowledge in character animation theory and practices in a project-based learning environment. In order to create an engaging animated character performance the audience can empathise with, it is important to have a good understanding of acting methods as well as animation principles and techniques. The theory and practice in this unit will introduce you to production management while focusing on developing further insights into planning, staging, cinematography, body language and facial expressions animation for character acting in a narrative context.

KNB226 Visual Storytelling: Animation Pre-Production

This unit expands on story development, design and pre-visualisation techniques for productions. As such, it consolidates your exposure to concept development, production design and pre-production knowledge, and the skills introduced in KNB136 Visual Storytelling: Production Design and KNB216 Visual Storytelling: Cinematic Pre-Visualisation. The unit focuses on equipping students with the design and planning skills necessary for cinematic preproduction. These range from concept development through to design and storyboarding to production-ready documentation. As part of this unit you will develop, design, direct, pitch, produce a production bible and an animatic for an animated short. You will be required to draw and therefore be expected to build on illustration skills.

KNB305 Advanced Animation Studio

In this unit you will focus on independent practice within the context of creating a cohesive animated project within a complex production studio environment. You will critically engage with current theoretical and philosophical contexts in animation in accordance with industrial and/or independent pipelines. You will engage in in-depth research and analysis of relevant topics, issues, and debates within the expansive field of animation and culture and build upon your explorations, collaborating and combining with others to create a cinematic outcome. This unit presents an opportunity to develop professional-ready skills through adaptable learning frameworks and praxical approaches that foster both formal experimentation and conceptual innovation.

KNB310 Advanced Animation Production 1

This unit consolidates your studio practice while focusing on advanced production stages and skill sets and knowledge required to deliver high-quality final outputs for film and related platforms. As part of your work in this unit the entire VFX pipeline is being explored, engaging you in production and post-production processes that bring together 3D assets and images into a short narrative based cinematic sequence of your design. This unit will bring depth and breadth to your technique and applies directly to Advanced Animation Production 2.

KNB315 Advanced Animation Practice

Animators have a long tradition of pioneering new approaches and ideas of animation through experimental animation practice. This capstone unit offers you an opportunity to engage with this tradition by undertaking your own independent or collaborative study of animation through a practice-based inquiry into core concepts and current themes of animation. In this unit, you will be able to specialise in your desired aspects of animation production, create innovative and unique animation works, build content for your individualised portfolio and gain a depth of understanding of animation as a field of study, preparing you for a career in the animation industry.

KNB320 Advanced Animation Production 2

To prepare for life outside of the academic institution, it is important to be able to showcase your work with knowledge of the requirements of your field. This unit builds on previous studies of animation techniques and production processes to complete a final advanced project and to create a professional showreel and portfolio. It continues to develop animation production skills, concentrating on final output and post-production.

KPB123 Multi-Camera Studio Production Practice

This unit addresses creative, technical and organisational skills and knowledge required to work in a multi-camera television studio production context. You will develop an understanding of the formats suitable for live production and the practical production skills as a crew member on multiple modes of production which will form the basis of an effective industry-related repertoire. This unit builds on skills developed in previous units to make studio-based multi-camera productions and live broadcast content.

KPB208 Screen Genres

This unit helps you to appreciate contemporary screen genres and to develop genre-related analytical skills. It also investigates the connections between genre theory and contemporary practice-based genre approaches. Genre is central to understanding the cultural and industrial contexts and visual forms of narrative screen productions. Since every screen production is a risk, both financial and creative, contemporary production organisations and creators attempt to minimise risk in their future ventures through screen genres. Genre productions appeal to local and international audiences. It is indeed crucial for fans, critics and practitioners to appreciate genre conventions, inventions and innovations, and those genre elements that contribute to the commercial, critical, or creative success of narrative screen productions.

KPB215 Advanced Screenwriting

This unit aids you to better understand screenwriting processes and structural concepts by offering a framework and strategies for the development of a short drama script. Screenwriting occurs within specific socioeconomic frameworks and is supported by specific industry practices. Working within these models, you will become aware of the scope and limitation of scriptwriting for screen projects. In this unit you will have the opportunity to build and extend basic screenwriting techniques and explore topics such as the role of screenwriters in the industry.

KPB216 Screen Content Production Management

This unit introduces film, television and screen business theory and practice, providing foundations for small and larger scale production management. It considers the role of the production manager with a particular focus on the phases of pre-production and production. People with an interest in producing film, television and multimedia productions need to develop knowledges and skills that form the basis of an effective industry-related repertoire in relation to working in a range of media businesses. This unit examines how the production manager supports the producer in screen production projects ensuring that the needs of the production have been addressed via a preliminary schedule and draft budget, within all legal and insurance constraints. The unit addresses the importance of working within the resources available in order to achieve the necessary production values on screen in a highly competitive market place.

KPB217 Screen Crafts: Experiments

This unit examines various forms of experimentation in relation to creative works, challenging you to think beyond mainstream cinema. Filmmakers must push the aesthetic and narrative boundaries of cinema in order to find their own distinctive voice and style. In this unit, you will have the chance to do so, testing your imaginative limits and creative abilities through vision and sound. Evolution in all fields of screen production results from creativity. Successful practitioners of screen content require the opportunity to develop their creative potential through experimentation. Building on prior knowledge acquired in earlier units, you will be encouraged to become wilfully nonconformist in approach, drawing on a wide range of traditions from within the genre of Experimental or Avant-Garde filmmaking.

KPB218 Narrative Screen Production

This unit develops an appreciation of contemporary screen narratives by building analytical and collaborative production skills applicable to fictional screen storytelling. It also investigates the application of contemporary narrative screen production approaches via the examination of core areas of specialisation and the production of a short narrative film. The unit will deepen your creative, technical, and organisational abilities in the areas of narrative screen storytelling.

KPB219 Factual Screen Production

This unit introduces the traditions of documentary film and television production, stylistic practices in documentary and documentary scripts, and methodologies for producing ethnographic, indigenous and cross cultural documentaries. Understanding the role documentary performs in our media age provides a crucial literacy to this film forms. You will be exposed to the history and theory behind documentary, enabling you to conceptualise and plan your own documentary productions and critique the place of them alongside factual and fictional forms of filmmaking in the contemporary media landscape. This unit then addresses the knowledge and skills required for non-fiction multi-platform content production while engaging with high-end production and post-production technologies. You will learn screen language and production practices, roles and responsibilities of production teams, production management, design and practice.

KPB221 Screen Project Development

This unit equips you as a developing screen content creator with the concepts and skills for project development and pre-production. It addresses the roles played by producers, directors, writers, script editors and other craft practitioners in the creative process. Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. This tried and tested adage applies to every crew member and department involved in screen productions. Hard-to-come-by financing, tight budgets and schedules, and the expectation for high quality, innovative content mean that the planning phase of project development and pre-production is essential. Indeed, it is important for you who wish to work in contemporary screen industries to understand the nature and importance of these critical phases.

KPB315 Global Screen Studies

This course critically examines global cinema and films from a selection of non-Hollywood cinemas within their historical, aesthetic, production and cultural contexts. National movies are shaped by unique contexts — while non-Hollywood cinemas are responding to the challenges in the contemporary screenscape in complex ways. This course addresses critical writing, research and analytical skills required to evaluate and problematise the history, aesthetics, production and cultural contexts of key global cinemas — and how transnational forces shape ‘local’ screen content. ‘Global cinema’ has been responsible for film language and form innovations in contrast to the conventions of classical Hollywood cinema that have shaped global film making practice. However, as systems of production, distribution and consumption become globalised, traditional understandings of national production are being reconstituted.

KPB324 Advanced Screen Production Contexts

This unit examines the broader context in which screen content is produced in relation to policies and practices that support the screen production sector in Australia. This includes film, television, streaming, and online video production. Students will focus on specific government policies, production initiatives, markets, producers or platforms to identify production and / or distribution opportunities. Students will develop a project proposal targeting specific initiatives or responding to government policies, and create a proof of concept, prototype or other short form screen production.

KPB325 Screen Issues

This unit develops historical, critical and analytical skills in reading and writing about issues in the screen industries and contemporary culture. It fosters both critical research skills and practical, professional development skills and approaches for emerging practitioners. It looks at contemporary screen production contexts and consumption practices, and how these issues relate to the industries. The unit considers the effect of screen forms on the experience of visual culture and investigates the relationship between evolving digital technologies and existing media. Understanding the contemporary contexts for screen production is essential for screen professionals. This unit brings you up-to-date with the issues and topics most relevant for emerging practitioners who would like to make the most of the opportunities, be aware of risks and become dynamic and adaptive in the process.

KPB326 Advanced Screen Production Practices

This unit extends your knowledge and skills relevant to the demands and expectations of contemporary screen production practices through practical production experience and exposure in a professional setting. It will extend on screen production experiences in new and unique environments and further equip you with expertise particular to technology and employability in the workplace. This unit will provide you with the opportunity to further specialise in an area of pre-production, production or post production, as you work collaboratively to produce a festival-quality short film.

Industrial design

DNB111 ID Studio 2: Aesthetics and Visualisation

This introductory unit advances knowledge and skills with analogue and digital visualisation techniques to explore, elaborate and communicate your design ideas effectively. The most common and complex aspect of industrial design deals with creating aesthetically pleasing products imbued with meaning and value through form and function. Continuing the development of design process knowledge and skills established in DNB110 ID Studio 1: User Centred Design, this unit delves deeper into ideas of aesthetics and meaning in order to advance the quality of everyday products.

DNB210 ID Studio 3: Interaction and Experience

A core responsibility of the Industrial Designer is the interpretation of human interactions with products or systems. This unit develops intermediate design research skills and strategies to gain a detailed understanding of the user within the product's social, cultural and technological context. It employs design strategies to identify opportunities of human interactions with products and systems and enhance the user-product experience. In this unit you will strengthen and apply your design, visualisation, model-making and CAD skills at an intermediate level while dealing with user-centred design (UCD) principles to produce interactive designs. This unit builds on knowledge and experience gained in earlier Industrial Design (ID) foundation units. It builds your skills and knowledge in the area of interaction and experience allowing for integration of skills and knowledge in the capstone units.

DNB211 ID Studio 4: Manufacturing Technology

This unit introduces the skills and knowledge to transform design ideas into manufacturable products. It provides experience and skills in creating 3D CAD models and using them to communicate design intent. The unit increases your knowledge of the commonly used materials and processes and of how their manufacturing constraints and opportunities affect the design process. The industrial designer needs to possess skills in translating these constraints and opportunities into viable product designs and to be able to communicate their design intent with sufficient detail to allow that product to be manufactured according to industry standards and capabilities. This unit introduces you to the principles of Design For Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) and extends your Computer-Aided Design (CAD) skills. The skills and knowledge covered by this unit are amongst those highly sought after by employers and will be applied in all subsequent ID studio units.

DNB212 ID Studio 5: Applied Technology

This unit provides the skills and knowledge required to design products for manufacture. It advances knowledge on commonly used materials allowing you to gain an understanding of how manufacturing constraints and opportunities affect the design process. Industrial Designers need to be able to design products that are viable for production. They also need to possess skills in translating these constraints and opportunities into viable product designs and to be able to efficiently communicate their design intent to allow that product to be manufactured according to industry standards and capabilities. The unit focuses on 3D parametric Computer Aided Design (CAD) and on how this is incorporated into the design process. Additionally, it provides skills in creating 3D CAD models and using them to communicate design intent. The unit builds on the DNB211 ID Studio 4: Manufacturing Technology unit as well as developing CAD and digital presentation skills.

DNB215 Personal Transportation

This unit introduces personal transport and mobility system concepts as applied to the design of a personal transport system for a given context. It focuses on understanding, benchmarking and designing personal transport systems for a specific context. It prepares you for future units including mass transportation and future transportation units. This unit is in the developmental stage of your course and introduces you to some basic concepts for transportation systems and builds on your application of design. It is preferred (but not a requirement) that you have completed design or design visualisation units prior to enrolling in this unit.

DNB310 ID Studio 6: Systems Design

This unit introduces the concept of systems thinking and its application to design to solve complex societal, cultural and environmental challenges. It advances on Industrial design concepts, methods, strategies and processes for innovation with a particular focus on future products and systems. It also builds and consolidates knowledge and experience gained in earlier Industrial Design units, in particular skills and knowledge in the area of systems design. To be able to tackle the most critical problems of our time, we must broaden our view to incorporate a more holistic and comprehensive view of design and systems. This requires the understanding and application of novel systems thinking approaches to the design of products, services and systems that are viable, feasible and desirable for people and the environment.

DNB311 ID Studio 7: Capstone

This is the capstone unit for Industrial Design. It is built upon the earlier Industrial Design units and extends the application of research to the designing products and systems. This is an independent project reinforcing leadership and project management as well as strengthening your expertise. You will focus on research done through design, application of research findings for early and developmental design stages, and will learn to integrate research and design to support novel design ideas. The unit provides you with an opportunity to learn how to manage and lead large authentic projects.

DNB312 Advanced Manufacturing

The aim of this unit is to elevate your knowledge of manufacturing to a level where you can confidently produce products able to be manufactured. It further develops your knowledge of the relationship between manufacturing and design. In this you will gain a greater understanding of manufacturing materials and processes that are commonly used by designers. You will also gain experience applying that knowledge to a design project. For a design to progress from just an idea to becoming a real thing it needs to be able to be manufactured. For this, designers need an in-depth understanding of the ways that products are manufactured and what they can be manufactured from. This forms part of the core technical skills that designers require. This unit builds on previous manufacturing skills and allows for this knowledge to be incorporated into the final capstone unit.

DNB313 Advanced Computer-Aided Design

This unit develops your knowledge and skill in Computer Aided Design (CAD), with the aim to strengthen your knowledge about the implementation of CAD in an industrial design context as well as skills in generating CAD output (digital renderings) in a form that accurately communicates design intent. This unit will focus on building skills using SolidWorks, a 3D parametric modeller and Keyshot, a render engine. Designers need to be able to communicate their 3D design ideas in an accurate way to others to have them manufactured, and CAD is the primary way that this is done. Therefore, good CAD skills are an essential skill, sought after by employers and very useful for design communication in subsequent units, especially the capstone unit.

Interaction design

DXB110 Principles of Interaction and UX Design

This unit introduces Interaction and UX Design theories, methods, tools and applications essential for the design of digital products, services and experiences for human interaction. It enables you to undertake user experience research in response to real world briefs, critique leading industry case studies and practices, iteratively prototype solutions, and evaluate usability of the outcome with regard to user experience. Amidst global proliferation of digital products and services shaped by trends in augmented and virtual reality, automation, smart homes, and the Internet of Things; there is a greater emphasis on designing digital interactions, interfaces and systems that improve the human experience. In order to effectively achieve that, this unit provides foundational skills and knowledge in human-centred design, including aspects of the interaction design lifecycle, methods, tools and techniques needed to solve real world problems.

DXB210 Critical Experience Design

This unit explores the way in which critical and speculative design theory and practices can transform established design conventions in new and unexpected ways, leading to innovative design solutions. Design does not operate in isolation. All our decisions as designers affect not only the produced outcome, but the broader society and environments for which it is created. This unit provides you with design skills to create highly engaging and interactive speculative designs, services and experiences, while focusing on their impact and potential of design for change and deep societal transformation. In this unit you will adopt critical thinking and speculative design methods to re-imagine, analyse, design and present solutions for future scenarios (e.g. living in future cities, design of future hospitals and future of the environment) as a way to re-frame present interactions between people, spaces and technologies.

DXB211 Creative Coding

This is an introductory programming unit for designers. It presents core principles of computer programming and explores how these can be applied to produce creative outcomes. It also surveys the ways that designers, artists and other creative practitioners have engaged with computer programming and reflects on the nature of code as a creative medium. A basic literacy with programming is essential in areas of professional practice such as interaction design, visual design, web design, mobile app design and game design. As such, it is important for you to develop core skills in computer programming, as well as knowledge of the aesthetics of computational processes in design and creative practice.

DXB212 Tangible Media

This unit provides in-depth knowledge of tangible media through the production of an advanced tangible media design project. The design and production of computational and interactive media forms requires theoretical knowledge and an understanding of the processes that underpin the tangible as well as the embodied ways in which people interact with such systems. This unit builds upon previous interaction design studies and extends these studies into the field of tangible media.

DXB310 Augmented Interactions

This unit advances on your understandings of augmented interaction. Studio-driven explorations of emerging and future practices and concerns, and engagement in a chosen problem space, will facilitate such process. The unit provides an opportunity for reflective practices to situate your work in the relevant context as well as extend your own understanding of interaction design. You will create an augmented interactive system that responds to a problem or site you identify and research, as well as evaluate people’s experience of it gaining formative feedback. You will use interactive media technologies, such as virtual and augmented reality software tools and sensors, and develop a visual and experiential language for your concept. Understanding social and physical phenomena evolution and how we interact with the world is crucial, even more so today as wireless networks proliferate and that interaction is increasingly mediated.

DXB311 Advanced Interaction Design Project

This capstone unit further develops your interaction design skills through the production of a signature project. It focuses on developing your own specialist Interaction Design work which will serve to assist you in defining your professional portfolio and future career pathways. The outcome will also become your major design work to be presented in the final year exhibition. Design for interaction continues to be a transformative and pivotal field of design for contemporary society, encompassing a range of practice from sustainability, usability, and collaboration to the evocative, playful and expressive. New design opportunities and career options continue to emerge and an understanding of future industry practices and an ability to actively engage in these is essential for career success. This subject provides you with the opportunity to explore emerging areas of interaction design through practice-based research, creative focus and a supportive community of learning.

Journalism

CJB204 Social Justice and Journalism Ethics

Journalism has a significant influence on the way people see the world, and how they think about their place within it. Journalism therefore has the ability to both address, as well as exacerbate, existing power imbalances that exist in our culture. This unit provides students with a better understanding of these dynamics, and how they can shape their future professional practice in ways that might better account for the structural advantages and disadvantages that different groups (based on gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class and physical ability) face. The unit will introduce students to the professional codes of conduct under which journalists often operate, and how they apply in the Australian context. The unit also provides opportunities for students to explore real-world ethical dilemmas in the media industry, and to work through examples of applied ethical decision-making. In doing so, the unit aims to produce more socially-conscious, ethical journalism practitioners.

CJB305 Longform News Production

Longform journalism continues to evolve on a range of platforms, with digital media tools providing exciting storytelling possibilities, including podcasts and multimedia features. This unit provides an opportunity for students to apply their advanced journalistic skills in producing longform non-fiction content, using a combination of text, visuals, audio and video. You will learn how to generate story ideas and news angles, and select the most appropriate format for telling stories. You will then use research, interviewing and production skills to produce engaging content, including multimedia feature articles, audio and video, and podcasts. This unit also provides opportunities for reflection and constructive critique of your work. The unit aids you in producing credible non-fiction content in a dynamic and appealing style, applying skills that are transferable to areas outside journalism. It also provides awareness of the market for longform non-fiction content.

Music

KMB218 Musicianship 3

This advanced musicianship unit provides you with critical listening, analysis, representational and demonstrational skills across a broad range of music and sound. It fosters a deeper understanding of music and sound to help inform and situate your creative practice. The unit builds on the foundation aural and analytical skills introduced in Musicianship 1 and 2 which music professionals use to analyse, compose, produce and perform music. These skills will be applied to communicate your understanding of complex musical ideas in a range of musical styles, settings and practices.

KMB223 Music and Media

This unit explores how music is used as a storytelling device in a range of visual media. Building upon your awareness as a media consumer and your existing technological skills, you will explore and apply techniques in interdisciplinary contexts. As methods of media content delivery change, creative practitioners are required to enact a range of media production techniques in the communication of ideas. This unit is in the developmental stage of your course and engages you with practical and theoretical approaches, exploring the techniques and contexts of music and visual media in contemporary society.

KMB226 Studio-Based Music Production

This unit situates music in a range of collaborative contexts. Students will learn the different roles typical to collaborative contemporary music practice as well as across other disciplines, such as music composition and production for film, theatre, animation, etc. Students will make connections between their individual music practice and collaborative partnerships to produce studio recordings and/or live performances of original songs and compositions. Students will further their knowledge of the dynamic nature of the music sector and learn to build sustainable portfolio careers typical to the music industry. Key sustainability concepts as related to touring and record production are also introduced in the unit. Students will develop an understanding of how contemporary music is produced by undertaking practice in one or more roles over the course of the semester, such as studio engineer, song-writer, track and hook producer, session musician, top-liner, or media composer.

KMB227 Music Creation 2

Building on Music Creation 1, this unit develops skills and understanding to create new music across a range of musical practices in performance, production and composition. Successful musicians need to form and negotiate their creative practice within a complex professional environment. They need to develop critical skills to understand their music in context and how it can be connected to an audience. As the second of four units in Music Creation, it builds deeper engagement and knowledge used to present creative ideas with peers and industry professionals.

KMB228 Musicianship 4

This unit assists you to develop an awareness of your own musicianship and where this is situated within the diversity of contemporary practices and contexts. It develops your awareness of analytical and synthesis skills across a broad range of music and sound contexts and concepts. It complements other creative, practical and analytical units by fostering a deeper understanding of music and sound. This advanced musicianship unit provides you with critical listening, analysis, representational and demonstrational skills across a broad range of music and sound. The unit will foster a deeper understanding of music and sound to help inform and situate your creative practice. You will build on these skills towards your final year capstone Music Creation units.

KMB236 Music Performance, Theory and Practice

The unit will foster a deeper understanding of music and sound to help inform and situate your creative practice in a live performance context. This unit continues to build your musicianship with a focus on live performance techniques for music artists and those that support artists through live sound recording and live sound reinforcement. The unit will also develop skills related to multi-media elements, technology, and adapting to different contexts and environments. Students will explore the creative possibilities of combining music with visual arts, lighting, projection, and other multi-media tools, and develop performance skills necessary to adapt musical expression to various performance settings.

KMB317 Music Creation 3

This unit aids you to refine your creative strengths in a focused area of practice connecting these strengths with the development of a professional and artistic identity. It enables you to identify an individual specialisation and demonstrate your musical skills through the creation of new works. You will situate your practice within a well-defined artistic and professional field and realise musical outcomes through engagement in authentic learning and assessment activities. Professional musicians must develop a critical understanding of the relationship between their music making, its artistic contexts and audiences. This unit draws on the practical skills gained in the previous two Music Creation units, advancing on the development of more focused areas of musical expertise and specialisation. As the third of four units, the unit provides you with an opportunity to envision and realise a deep engagement with specific areas of creative practice.

KMB318 Advanced Music Practice

This unit provides an opportunity for advanced music students to extend their creative practice and delve into innovative approaches to music composition, improvisation, and performance. This unit encourages students to explore new ideas, experiment with various techniques, and push the boundaries of their musical abilities to develop the types of new work that will shape future sustainable portfolio careers. Through a combination of theoretical study, practical exercises, and collaborative projects, students will have the opportunity to develop their unique artistic voice and expand their creative repertoire.

KMB327 Music Creation 4

This unit consolidates your music creative skills in an individually defined area of practice within the broader field of music professions. It develops and refines works and performances in an authentic and professional context and fosters greater entrepreneurial awareness through activation of professional networks and consideration of a sustainable career. This is the capstone unit for the BFA (Music) degree. It draws on your experience from all previous Music Creation units. You will lead and participate in individual or collaborative projects to produce the most fully realised portfolio of work in your degree. The portfolio will demonstrate that you have developed a sophisticated and professional voice over the years of your study. It will also demonstrate a high level of professional activity and engagement. It will be launched to a public audience and demonstrate the highest professional values and an awareness of global potentials in your area of specialisation.

KMB328 Advanced Music Practice in Professional Contexts

This capstone unit consolidates advanced music practice and focuses on the presentation of music practice for professional, public-facing display. Students will develop a comprehensive, contextualised, and theoretically-supported project plan that integrates their creative practice with professional practice, and details how they will display their work (for example, a live show, an EP release, a film screening). The unit will encourage students to think critically about their artistic goals and execute their vision to a professional standard to assist in their development of a sustainable portfolio career in the music industry.

Professional communication

CWB201 Corporate Writing and Editing

Professional communication specialists must have a command of an extensive range of corporate writing genres to create and edit corporate documents. This unit allows you to develop the ability to write in at least two corporate writing genres and be proficient in three other genres. It deals with both the fundamentals of language (grammar, punctuation, style) and common corporate writing genres (manuals, reports, speeches, brochures). As a corporate writing specialist, you must also be able to respond authoritatively to technical and stylistic writing questions when such matters arise in the workplace. You will develop your knowledge about how language works and be able to use that knowledge in practical writing applications. As a result, you will become a more confident writer and communicator in corporate and professional situations.

Visual arts

KVB217 Visual Arts Open Studio 3

This unit integrates creative practice methods and codes, self-directed socio-cultural research, and personal reflection, in order to consolidate a studio-based art practice. It develops a pervasive sense of creative inquiry, self-motivation, self-reliance, and an openness to new ideas and aesthetic experiences. By providing support and structure for these activities and developments, the unit aims to habituate these essential qualities of artistic practice. The open-ended conditions of current creative practices - their processes, reception, and contribution to society - are diverse, increasingly complex, and inherently multi-layered. The Open Studio model of contemporary visual art practice provides a platform to build a robust and flexible creative skillset. This unit foregrounds art thinking, speculative inquiry and combinatory play with the material, conceptual and contextual dimensions of creative practice in order to nurture creative literacy and intelligence.

KVB227 Visual Arts Open Studio 4

This unit focuses on the elaboration and sustained development of an individualised artistic practice within a creative community of practitioners. It foregrounds art thinking, speculative inquiry and combinatory play with the material, conceptual and contextual dimensions of creative practice in order to nurture an expanded and nuanced level of creative literacy and intelligence. The open-ended conditions of current creative practices, their processes, reception, and contribution to society, are extremely diverse, increasingly complex, and inherently multi-layered. The Open Studio model provides a unique and ideally suited position from which to understand these factors and develop a relevant creative skillset. This unit furthers a sense of creative inquiry, self-motivation, self-reliance, and an openness to new ideas and aesthetic experiences. .

KVB317 Visual Arts Open Studio 5

This unit provides conceptual frameworks and practical experience in the Open Studio in order to refine critical, creative and analytical thinking in an integrated, transmedia creative practice. It addresses effective communication in a variety of professional contexts and modes. The conditions of contemporary art practices, their production, reception and contribution to society are diverse, complex and multi-layered. To successfully navigate this environment, professional practitioners require strong self-advocacy skills and the ability to communicate an informed, independent position in various contexts. In this final year unit, you will undertake self-directed, intensive study in the Open Studio, supported by research into a broad range of artists' practices and contemporary art theory. The Open Studio is a creative community, which foregrounds art thinking, speculative inquiry and combinatory play with the material, conceptual and contextual dimensions of creative practice.

KVB327 Visual Arts Open Studio 6

This unit provides conceptual frameworks and practical experience in the Open Studio, in order to synthesise critical, creative and analytical thinking, in an independent, professionally ready, creative practice. It addresses effective communication, presentation and advocacy skills for the variety of contexts and modes you will engage with in the professional industry. The conditions of contemporary art practices, their production, reception and contribution to society are extremely diverse, increasingly complex and multi-layered. Your sustained critical involvement and increasing commitment to conceptual and creative pursuits will be supported by intensive research into artists' practices and contemporary theory. The Open Studio is a creative community, which foregrounds art thinking, speculative inquiry and combinatory play with the material, conceptual and contextual dimensions of creative practice.

Visual communication

DVB102 Image Design and Production

This unit provides skills and knowledge for image creation and production across different contexts, styles and media. It also deals with issues of originality, creativity and suitability of images used in professional visual design, while increasing your skills and creative approaches to areas of illustration, information design, photography, and photo media design. It advances knowledge on aesthetic and formal qualities of new areas of image design and a growing technical skill set which will be built upon in further Visual Communication Design specialisation subjects. In a world of easily reproduced digital imagery, the ability to create your own original illustrations, photos, textures and patterns can be highly competitive. Along with developing practical skills to generate original imagery for your design work, the unit further develops your capacity to critique and reflect upon practice.

DVB201 Typographic Design

This unit provides knowledge and skills of typographic principles, composition and design strategies. It combines theory and practice, history and experimentation, and designing for print and digital media, all within a vibrant studio environment delivered face-to-face and online. You will engage with dynamic, creative briefs and use type as the main element of visual expression in your work. Typically typography is at the core of any visual communication work, independently of media. ‘Good’ typographic design demands well developed technical skills, constant attention to detail as well as a sharp understanding of the context and content of the message being transmitted. Upon completion of this unit you will be able to understand, apply and manipulate multiple aspects of typography as a powerful visual communication tool and to prepare and publish your work in multiple media contexts, including emerging technologies and environmental spaces.

DVB202 Visual Design for Storytelling

While contemporary visual communication often applies concise and immediate messaging for targeted audiences, it can also require extended, multi-layered narrative-led messaging. This unit provides theoretical, conceptual, technical and research skills to produce narrative-based visual communication works. The unit addresses principles and techniques of visual storytelling across multiple media forms such as print, screen and space, and allows you to develop key portfolio pieces which are complex and creative. Visual Design for Storytelling builds upon the Visual Communication foundations, expanding the scope of projects you are equipped for.

DVB203 Theories and Methods of Visual Communication

This unit builds on your understanding of the principles of visual communication and its role in determining the values of our contemporary cultures and societies. Through exploring theoretical perspectives, discussions and class exercises you will critique and analyse images and visual communication designs occurring in multiple contexts. In doing so, you will develop further expertise in the production of contemporary communication design and the ethical, social and professional responsibilities of a designer. This unit directly builds upon the Visual Communication and Image Production units while providing opportunities to engage with critical analysis of images and experiences and evidence this through written expression and report writing.

DVB301 Kinetic Image and Text

Moving image and typographic design has become a leading form of communication in contemporary society, from online contexts, to film and television, to digital signage. An in-depth understanding of and creative skills in motion-based design are essential for visual designers to work on major campaigns and address all client needs. This unit provides you with knowledge of key theoretical approaches, techniques and methods of kinetic design and allows you to explore these through practice within studio-based assessment projects. In taking this focus, the unit builds directly upon prior foundations of Image Design and Typography in the Visual Communication specialisation and prepares students to work at a further, advanced level within the industry.

DVB302 Data Visualisation and Information Design

Information and data is now an essential aspect of everyday life in our technologically-driven and visually rich society. In the contemporary world, the generation of data is much greater than the ability to digest and visualise this as meaningful information. The unit provides advanced knowledge and skills in visual information design and data visualisation allowing you to apply these within a series of practice-based design works. The unit contextualises the growth of this information design specialisation for visual designers, raises issues relating to data collection and integrity, and provides you with a comprehensive understanding of the variety of design approaches that can be engaged within this area. It offers both a practical understanding of established information design models and also the opportunity to develop an innovative and future-forward approached to data visualisation, including utilising interactivity.

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