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Storytelling for screen is no longer restricted to big-budget cinema releases and television series commissioned by major networks. The need for quality content across digital media delivery platforms such as subscription TV, mobile devices, internet, promotional campaigns and film festivals is leading to lucrative opportunities for multiskilled professionals to generate highly creative, captivating productions. This course gives you a broad base of knowledge, skills and experiences to explore a wide range of career options within the film, television and digital media industries before specialising in an area of your choice. If you are interested in producing you may find your niche as a creative entrepreneur, learning how to generate ideas and develop them into finished productions. If your passion is cinematography, editing, sound or directing, you will develop your skills by producing high quality creative content. Alternatively, you may wish to hone your skills in script-writing.

You will complete six Bachelor of Creative Industries core units as well as one creative industries major of eight units, and two Creative Industries introductory units. Your business degree component includes eight business core units and eight business major units. The Bachelor of Business is designed to produce graduates with the knowledge, skills and experiences for success in a broad range of contexts in general and specific fields of business. The course provides students with a strong theoretical and practical underpinning in the key disciplines, functions, principles and practices of business across national and international business environments with depth and specialisation in a discipline. The curriculum is responsive to industry needs, providing students with contemporary knowledge and skills that are highly relevant to industry. The Creative Enterprise core consists of studio units that offer authentic, problem-based activities, coupled with Work Integrated Learning, skills in entrepreneurship and commercial links that engage in creative start-ups - the perfect complement to your business studies. Some of the combinations of business and creative industries include: media and communication and advertising screen content production with marketing creative and professional writing and public relations.

Bachelor of Business Our business degree equips you to confidently enter the modern business world. It combines key business research and contemporary business best practice, and sets demanding standards to create your future career options. Develop business skills and be able to think creatively and critically, communicate professionally, make ethical business decisions and work in a global context. Graduate with deep knowledge and experience in your chosen major, equipping you as a professional in your chosen discipline. You can study accountancy, advertising, economics, finance, human resource management, international business, management, marketing or public relations. Using this double degree, forge a career as a journalist with a specialty in finance, international affairs, or political and social commentary. You may also work as a media executive, business analyst or researcher. Bachelor of Communication (Journalism) Our journalism degree will prepare you for a changing world. You'll learn to prepare and present news through a variety of social channels and across online, print and broadcast platforms. This course goes beyond the writing, communication and ethical foundations of journalism and builds your production skills through hands-on experience in world class facilities. You'll access newsrooms, radio and TV studios and contribute to QUT News and other outlets. You'll also have the opportunity to apply for industry internships and international exchanges. Our journalism graduates have achieved distinction in high-profile news, media and public relations positions. Our graduates include senior Australian journalists such as Leigh Sales, Peter Greste, Leila McKinnon, Conor Duffy and Karl Stefanovic. Learn from working professionals and internationally renowned scholars of journalism and media studies. Journalism staff maintain close links to the industry through their association with high-profile awards and organisations.

Education double degrees offer qualifications that can lead to a teaching career or allow you to pursue careers in a range of industries. In this double degree students complete the requirements for two separate degrees in four and a half years. The course consists of units in information technology and education.

Bachelor of Communication (Digital Media) Digital media is rapidly changing technology, business, and legal landscapes. The Digital Media major will help you stay ahead in this dynamic environment, whether your goal is to be a digital disruptor/entrepreneur, digital content creator, or leading edge analyst in the world of big data. This course lets you combine communication studies with an emphasis on digital innovation, practical skills, and industry placements and connections. Get industry experience through internships and work placements in government departments and agencies as well as media, advertising and public relations organisations. Our students have completed placements with Network Ten, Brisbane Festival, Hyperplex Cinemas and BBS Communications Group. In your third year you'll investigate and engage with the local media sector, including contributing to the latest media platforms, and you'll build your professional networks. We are a world leader in media and communication research, through our Digital Media Research Centre. If you're a high-achieving student, you may like to consider research pathways including the option to progress to a PhD. Bachelor of Information Technology Build a qualification that supports your interests and career aspirations and equips you with the skills to transform and shape the future through information technology. You can develop a career in web design, graphic design, web application development, illustration, video production and post-production, game design, project management or social media management. Get hands-on experience in state-of-the-art facilities and the skills required to be in demand as a problem solver and innovator in digital media. Benefit from strong industry connections with valuable insights into information technology and opportunities for internships here and overseas.

Bachelor of Business Our business degree equips you to confidently enter the modern business world. It combines key business research and contemporary business best practice, and sets demanding standards to create your future career options. Develop business skills and be able to think creatively and critically, communicate professionally, make ethical business decisions and work in a global context. Graduate with deep knowledge and experience in your chosen major, equipping you as a professional in your chosen discipline. You can study accountancy, advertising, economics, finance, human resource management, international business, management, marketing, or public relations. Graduates of the business and professional communication double degree can find careers as media or entertainment producers, public relations consultants or international business specialists. Bachelor of Communication (Professional Communication) This course prepares you for communication roles across a broad range of professional settings in small and large organisations. In addition to the high-level professional writing skills required by employers, you will develop knowledge and experience in a range of areas. These include organisational communication such as strategic speech writing and delivery, and persuasive writing, including the role of rhetoric in contemporary communications and important societal debates. The course is taught by highly experienced communicators and scholars. Visits and lectures from industry, work integrated learning placements and projects, and international study options will provide you with real-world experience and contacts. You will graduate with advanced writing and communication competence - a rare skill keenly sought by employers - as well as practical industry knowledge and networks. Graduates can work as professional writers and editors in corporate, government, community and freelance capacities. Opportunities exist as corporate writers, scriptwriters, reviewers, travel writers, feature writers, editors, journalists, publishers, media workers and teachers.

This program will prepare you to work as a teacher in secondary schools and other education environments. You will develop transferable skills to help you succeed in the modern business environment, think creatively and critically, communicate professionally, make ethical business decisions and work in a global context.

Bachelor of Business Our business degree equips you to confidently enter the modern business world. It combines key business research and contemporary business best practice, and sets demanding standards to create your future career options. Develop business skills and be able to think creatively and critically, communicate professionally, make ethical business decisions and work in a global context. Graduate with deep knowledge and experience in your chosen major, equipping you as a professional in your chosen discipline. You can study accountancy, advertising, economics, finance, human resource management, international business, management, marketing, or public relations. With your double degree you can take advantage of rising demand for the combination of digital management and analytical skills with business project and planning roles across industry and government. Bachelor of Communication (Digital Media) Digital media is rapidly changing technology, business, and legal landscapes. The Digital Media major will help you stay ahead in this dynamic environment, whether your goal is to be a digital disruptor/entrepreneur, digital content creator, or leading edge analyst in the world of big data. This course lets you combine communication studies with an emphasis on digital innovation, practical skills, and industry placements and connections. Gain industry experience through internships and work placements in government departments and agencies as well as media, advertising and public relations organisations. Our students have completed placements with Network Ten, Brisbane Festival, Hyperplex Cinemas and BBS Communications Group. In your third year you will investigate and engage with the local media sector, including contributing to the latest media platforms, and you will build your professional networks.

Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) This hands-on program gets you involved with the design of realistically detailed products suitable for manufacture with a focus on real-world industry engagement. Your studies include learning the creative design process, technical aspects of product design, design management, computer-aided industrial design (CAID) technology, human factors and ergonomics, and design research, coupled with innovation, aesthetics, marketing, cultural and social values and design leadership. You will be prepared for your career with a range of activities and opportunities such as hands-on design units, project presentations, international study tours, entrepreneurial incubation programs and real-world internships. You'll also benefit from our strong collaborative links with world-class international and national industry professionals. Many graduates work as industrial designers in consultancies or design departments of product manufacturers, or as entrepreneurs who design their own products. Use your double degree skills as an in-house lawyer for industrial designers, corporate identity designers, new product developers, or as an intellectual property lawyer. Other careers include usability expert, service designer, interaction designer, interface designer, corporate identity designer, model maker, movie concept designer, visualisation expert, automotive designer, design manager, design researcher, computer-aided design expert, game designer, design leadership expert and strategic design expert. Bachelor of Laws (Honours) The defining nature of our law degree is the unique balance between theory and practice. During your degree, you will complete the academic law units required for admission to legal practice, and choose elective units that align with your career interests. Through your study you will develop necessary legal skills such as legal research, problem solving, dispute resolution, and oral and written communication. Our course will also help you understand and promote the ethical standards of the legal profession and to appreciate international and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives. Our Bachelor of Laws (Honours) is a higher qualification than a bachelor degree, as it has honours-level content integrated throughout the course. The advanced knowledge and skills in this course will benefit your professional career, or future research and study.

Bachelor of Business Our business degree equips you to confidently enter the modern business world. It combines key business research and contemporary business best practice, and sets demanding standards to create your future career options. Develop business skills and be able to think creatively and critically, communicate professionally, make ethical business decisions and work in a global context. Graduate with deep knowledge and experience in your chosen major, equipping you as a professional in your chosen discipline. You can study accountancy, advertising, economics, finance, financial planning, human resource management, international business, management, marketing or public relations. Business acumen combined with visual communication skills provides a range of unique career opportunities including business analyst for graphic industries, visual communicators in advertising and marketing agencies, or digital content designer for a range of business applications. Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication) This course prepares you to work as a visual communication designer across traditional and new interactive media forms. You will develop both practical and theoretical skills in multiple visual communication design specialisations including graphic design, typography, image making, information design, experience design, motion design, branding and interaction design. Build your expertise in professional studio settings with a focus on both contemporary and emerging design practices, through real-world design projects, a culture of designing for public exhibition, ongoing industry engagement, and a strong foundation of creative experimentation and critical thinking. Graduate industry-ready for multiple future-focused and innovative career paths in communication design fields and related industries. You will develop skills in creative problem solving, critical thinking, technical proficiencies and professional practice that will ensure you can contribute to the field of visual communication in innovative and socially responsible ways.