Overview - CI

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The Creative Industries Faculty at QUT is a global leader in the development and evolution of the creative industries. The Faculty provides opportunities for students to discover possibilities they may never have imagined, and position themselves for future careers they could never have predicted – across a dynamic range of industry sectors.

The Faculty nurtures unique links with government and industry, and has strong associations with the three Federal Government funded and industry-supported research centres co-located at the Creative Industries Precinct. Together, we are a hub for leading research which produces innovative, real-world outcomes, and contributes to the ongoing development of the creative industries and creative practice. Some of the leading thinkers in the creative industries are drawn here to teach, theorise, research and create bold works of the imagination.

Creative Industries study areas include:

• Acting
• Animation
• Communication Design
• Creative Writing
• Dance
• Drama
• Fashion
• Film and Television
• Journalism
• Media and Communication
• Music
• Sound Design
• Technical Production
• Visual Arts.

The faculty offers the following undergraduate degree programs:

• Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees are designed predominantly for the practitioner-artist, and characterised by intense studio and/or project-based practice
• Bachelor of Creative Industries degrees offer opportunities for the more reflective practitioner to balance theory and practice and pursue some study in other creative industries areas
• Uniquely, the Interdisciplinary major in the Bachelor of Creative Industries provides the flexibility to combine studies in up to four different creative industries areas, and a defined pathway through foundation units
• Bachelor of Journalism
• Bachelor of Music
• Double degree programs with Business, Education, Health, Humanities, Information Technology and Law.

Postgraduate coursework programs include graduate certificates, graduate diplomas, masters and doctorates, and offer students a strong conceptual and practical framework.

Postgraduate research is applied in nature and encourages collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches creating innovative partnerships between students, academics, industry experts and sponsors. Practice-led research allows artist-researchers to make original contributions to the store of knowledge about their discipline by placing creative practice at the centre of the design, conduct and reporting of their research projects.