Bachelor of Creative Industries

Creative Industries is one of the fastest growing, most dynamic and diverse employment sectors.

This program allows you to tailor your studies to suit your interests and talents, providing you with a range of skills and employment choices in the expanding creative industries sector and beyond.

Upon completion, you’ll have strong creative and technical skills, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a professional portfolio that showcases your diverse talents.

In this program you will:

• Develop specialist creative and technical skills in design, media, arts, and communication as well as entrepreneurial nous.
• Choose from and combine a wide range of study areas, including theatre and performance, creative writing and publishing, screen media, music, fashion studies, creative advertising, social media, game design, public relations, and graphic design.
• Gain practical experience and develop your network of professional contacts.
• Undertake industry and research projects that will help you refine and showcase your knowledge and skills in the creative industries.

Choose to study abroad at one of USC’s 70+ partner institutions worldwide through our Study Overseas program.

Majors/Minors

Majors at Sunshine Coast: Animation and Visualisation Design; Creative Advertising; Creative Writing and Publishing; Interactive and UX Design; Marketing; Music; Screen Media; Serious Games Design; Social Media; Theatre and Performance; Visual Communication

Minors at Sunshine Coast: Animation and Visualisation Design; Creative Advertising; Creative Writing and Publishing; English; Entrepreneurship; Event Management; Fashion Studies; Interactive and UX Design; Interactive Narrative; Marketing; Music; Photographic Practice; Screen Media; Serious Games Design; Social Media; Theatre and Performance; Visual Communication

Majors at Moreton Bay: Animation and Visualisation Design; Creative Writing and Publishing; Interactive and UX Design; Marketing; Screen Media; Serious Games Design; Social Media; Visual Communication

Minors at Moreton Bay: Animation and Visualisation Design; Creative Writing and Publishing; English; Entrepreneurship; Interactive and UX Design; Interactive Narrative; Marketing; Screen Media; Serious Games Design; Social Media; Visual Communication

Career opportunities:

• Performance creator
• Screen media professional
• Writer/publisher
• Creative director
• Musician
• Graphic, 3D and/or e-media designer
• Marketing coordinator
• Advertising executive

Please note: In 2021, all first-year courses in this degree will be available online. Second- and third-year courses will be offered online progressively from 2022 onwards. (Note: some majors/minors may not be available online.) If you wish to study online and are intending to apply for credit for previous studies, please contact Student Central to discuss your options. Please note that some online courses may require some attendance at a USC campus to support your learning.