The Bachelor of Creative Industries (Digital Media) requires three years of full-time study (or the equivalent part-time). The course is offered by the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
Students who wish to exit the award after completion of 36 units or 72 units may be awarded a Diploma of Creative Industries or an Associate Degree of Creative Industries respectively, subject to specific requirements.
The minimum requirements for consideration for entry to all undergraduate courses are specified in detail in the University Entry Requirements.
The Bachelor of Creative Industries (Digital Media) aims to:
On completion of this course, you will be able to:
To qualify for the Bachelor of Creative Industries (Digital Media), a student must complete 108 units with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic, according to the following program of study.
No more than 45 units of First Year level topics may be included in the 108 units for the degree.
Elective topics may be selected from any offered within the University, provided any course and prerequisite requirements are met.
Not all topics are necessarily available in a given year.
27 units comprising:
COMS1001 Academic and Professional Communication (4.5 units)
CREA1001 Introduction to the Creative Arts (4.5 units)
SCME1001 Media and Society (4.5 units)
SCME1060 Screen Production Techniques A (4.5 units)
VEED1003 Essential Multimedia (4.5 units)
VEED1410 Production Project 1 (4.5 units)
plus 9 units of elective topics.^
^ While students are able to select elective units from anywhere across the University, these are recommended electives:
BUSN1022 Marketing Principles (4.5 units)
CRWR1001 Ideas: Imitation and Originality (4.5 units)
CRWR1002 Story: Who, What, When, Where (4.5 units)
DRAM1003 Introduction to Theatre Practice (4.5 units)
DRAM1004 Independent Theatre Production (4.5 units)
INDG1000 Indigenous Studies: An Introduction (4.5 units)
INDG1001 Race and Representation: Indigenous Identities (4.5 units)
INNO1001 Innovative and Creative Thinking: Recognising Opportunities (4.5 units)
SCME1000 Film Form and Analysis (4.5 units)
VEED1411 Art and Design Practice 1 (4.5 units)
TOUR1103 Introduction to Events (4.5 units)
27 units comprising:
CREA2102 Innovation and Creative Enterprise (4.5 units)
INDG2004 Reconciliation and Indigenous Knowledges (4.5 units)
VEED2004 Introduction to Digital Graphic Design (4.5 units)
VEED2108 Multimedia Production Part 1 (4.5 units)
VEED2202 CGI Foundations (4.5 units)
VEED2412 Studio Practice 1 (4.5 units)
Elective - Year 2 topics
Plus 9 units of elective topics^.
^While students are able to select elective units from anywhere across the University, these are recommended electives:
ARTS2001 Digital Transformations (4.5 units)
CREA2101 Creative Cities: Ecologies of Social Transformation (4.5 units)
CREA2103 Music and Emotion: Understanding the Cognitive and Behavioral Effects of Music (4.5 units)
CREA2104 Writing for Performance (4.5 units)
CRWR2001 Editing and the Industry (4.5 units)
CRWR2002 Love and Death (4.5 units)
INDG2001 Black Poetics: Indigenous Literary Studies (4.5 units)
INDG2002 Indigenous Australian Art (4.5 units)
INNO2001 Innovation for Social Impact: Doing Good While Doing Well (4.5 units)
SCME2000 The Hollywood Industry (4.5 units)
SCME2001 Television Studies (4.5 units)
SCME2003 Truth and Lies: Documentary Media (4.5 units)
SCME2101 Australian/Indigenous Media (4.5 units)
SCME2102 Gender, Media, and Technology (4.5 units)
SCME2104 Popular Genres (4.5 units)
VEED2201 Interaction Design (4.5 units)
Core - Year 3 topics
27 units comprising:
CREA3122 Cultural Leadership (4.5 units)
CREA3301 Practicum/Project in Creative Arts A (4.5 units)
CREA3302 Practicum/Project in Creative Arts B (4.5 units)
CREA3103 Applied Creative Practice (4.5 units)
VEED3005 Digital Games (4.5 units)
VEED3014 VFX Histories and Theories (4.5 units)
Elective - Year 3 topics
Plus 9 units of elective topics^.
^While students are able to select elective units from anywhere across the University, these are recommended electives:
CREA3104 The Music That Moves Us: Perspectives on Music in Creative Arts (4.5 units)
CREA3456 Cultural Policy and the Arts (4.5 units)
CRWR3001 The Epic (4.5 units)
CRWR3002 The Fantastic (4.5 units)
INDG3001 Colonial Intimacies and the Economy: Mathematics of Genocide (4.5 units)
INDG3002 Decolonising Institutions: Indigenous Creative Praxis (4.5 units)
INNO3002 Going Live. Entrepreneurial Strategies, Resources and Activities. (4.5 units)
Refer to Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours)
Every effort has been made to ensure the information published on the Course Rule pages is accurate at the time of publication. Flinders University reserves the right to amend its curriculum without prior notice, and will update the Course Rules to reflect any amendments at the earliest opportunity.
Flinders University uses cookies to ensure website functionality, personalisation and a variety of purposes as set out in its website privacy statement. This statement explains cookies and their use by Flinders.
If you consent to the use of our cookies then please click the button below:
If you do not consent to the use of all our cookies then please click the button below. Clicking this button will result in all cookies being rejected except for those that are required for essential functionality on our website.
Flinders University uses cookies to ensure website functionality, personalisation and a variety of purposes as set out in its website privacy statement. This statement explains cookies and their use by Flinders.
If you consent to the use of our cookies then please click the button below:
If you do not consent to the use of all our cookies then please click the button below. Clicking this button will result in all cookies being rejected except for those that are required for essential functionality on our website.