Course Catalogue

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The Bachelor of Creative Arts provides an innovative and comprehensive program in contemporary creative arts.

This course offers a transformative learning experience in making, performing, and presenting creative work, leading to careers in the sector's creative, managerial, and leadership roles. The course is designed to support students in developing their unique creative voice through studio practice units with guidance from experienced teachers who are creative professionals. Students collaborate with each other and connect with the creative sector in the context of discovering their creative potential.

The Bachelor of Creative Arts is delivered from an Australian perspective through internal and external delivery to ensure maximum flexibility for learning, with the opportunity to study online, depending on the choice of units and major. Optional field trips in the Northern Territory are available to connect students to on-country arts learning. Students will be inspired by northern Australia's spectacular landscapes and diverse cultures to reflect on and develop their own creative practice.

Students choose to major in one of the following creative disciplines:

Music: Shape your passion for music and sound into a sustainable career by majoring in Music through CDU's Bachelor of Creative Arts. This innovative and comprehensive contemporary arts program develops knowledge and skills in music performance and theory, technology and production, music history and culture. Specialise in an instrument or composition through studio practice, performance and recording projects, leading to a professional portfolio and showcase presentations.

Screen Media Arts: Develop the confidence to tell the stories of your time on screen by majoring in Screen Media Arts through CDU's Bachelor of Creative Arts. This innovative and comprehensive contemporary arts program introduces essential knowledge of screen culture and skills in storytelling, cinematography, editing, and visual and audio communications. Specialise in your preferred area of screen media arts through studio practice and projects, leading to a professional portfolio and showcase presentations.

Visual Arts: Realise your creative practice by majoring in Visual Arts through CDU's Bachelor of Creative Arts. This innovative and comprehensive contemporary arts program explores materials, processes, and techniques fundamental to a rich, independent studio practice. Craft your ideas, knowledge and skills through project-based learning and exhibition opportunities, leading to a professional portfolio and showcase presentations. 

Students can study part-time or full-time, online, on campus, or a combination of both.

The Bachelor of Creative Arts offers an innovative and comprehensive program in contemporary creative arts, leading to careers in music, performing arts and festivals, storytelling and creative writing, screen and digital media, design and the visual arts and contemporary Indigenous arts and production management and leadership roles across the creative industries.

Students will be supported to develop their own unique creative practice. The course enables students to focus on practice-based arts projects that develop skills in working independently and collaboratively. The course is distinct in its perspective, responding to local and global industry and professional pathway opportunities through community-based projects and industry work-placement opportunities, unique to the northern region of Australia.

The student's journey through this program will also develop core transferable skills in communication, collaboration and critical and creative thinking to prepare them to participate in multi-disciplinary areas of the creative arts workforce locally and globally.

The Bachelor of Creative Arts is ideal for anyone who wants to develop their creativity as a life-long investment, leading to options for rewarding careers as an independent creative practitioner or in the creative industry sectors, Graduates will find work in galleries and museums, screen and media production, entertainment and music, festivals and performing arts as well as in applied arts contexts such as education, health and government.

The bachelor's degree provides a pathway into further study at postgraduate level for those wishing to pursue research and/or creative practice as research. It also supports previous study inclusions through recognition of TAFE/vocational programs.