Bachelor of Creative Industries (Honours)

Improve your career prospects and follow your creative passion with an intensive one-year Honours program.

You’ll work one-on-one with a supervisor from USC’s School of Creative Industries to develop your own research project, produce an original creative work, or solve a real-world problem for an industry partner.

• Build advanced research, critical thinking and written communication skills
• Specialise in screen and media; drama; creative advertising; creative writing; art and digital design; or interactive technologies and games
• Develop your presentation skills by delivering at least two lectures on your research progress
• Study relevant research methods and theories, and engage with experts in your field

Career opportunities

A USC Honours degree provides a pathway to further postgraduate or higher degree by research study.

The Bachelor of Creative Industries (Honours) allows you to work with an industry partner on a real-world problem, which gives you a competitive edge when applying for roles in creative communications, design, marketing, screen and media, multimedia, video game and digital entertainment design, or performance creation.

Admission requirements

Students will need to have completed a related undergraduate degree from a recognised higher education institution, with at least 8 courses completed in the area of study of their thesis topic. A level of achievement in the intended area of study will need to be demonstrated. These will be considered the minimum entry requirements and won't automatically guarantee a student's entry into the program. Enrolment is contingent upon the Faculty's capacity to provide appropriate supervision in the intended field of study. A cumulative GPA of at least 5.0 in the 200 and 300 level courses of the major area of the discipline the student wishes to study.

Special selection criteria

The research proposal accompanying the honours enrolment application is normally two to three pages in length. It includes an outline of the research topic, its rationale, an indication of the research methodology, and should refer to relevant literature in the topic area.