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Bachelor of Creative Industries (Writing and Publishing)

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The Bachelor of Creative Industries (Writing and Publishing) 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.

  • Admission requirements
  • Course aims
  • Learning outcomes
  • Program of study
  • Honours

Admission requirements

The minimum requirements for consideration for entry to all undergraduate courses are specified in detail in the University Entry Requirements.

Course aims

The Bachelor of Creative Industries (Writing and Publishing) aims to:

  • develop the creativity, strategic thinking, business capability and practical skills required for success in the creative and cultural industries sector and specifically in the design and development of texts for a variety of media
  • promote the ability to work adaptively with new media and disruptive technologies in a fast-changing technologically driven industry environment
  • provide experience in working collaboratively, as part of an interdisciplinary creative team

Learning outcomes

On completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • apply theories of creative production and cultural value to analyse texts across a variety of media
  • critically evaluate writing and publishing projects in terms of their feasibility, sustainability and cultural and societal outcomes
  • develop and deliver creative industries projects and events while working independently and collaboratively
  • determine a range of partnership opportunities and funding sources for creative industries projects and events
  • interpret and critically evaluate contemporary policy for the creative arts and industries
  • combine skills in creative development, project management and marketing and apply them to deliver writing and publishing projects

Program of study

To qualify for the Bachelor of Creative Industries (Writing and Publishing), 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.

Core - Year 1 topics

27 units comprising:

 COMS1001  Academic and Professional Communication  (4.5 units)
 CREA1001  Introduction to the Creative Arts  (4.5 units)
 CRWR1001  Ideas: Imitation and Originality  (4.5 units)
 CRWR1002  Story: Who, What, When, Where  (4.5 units)
 ENGL1101  The Art of Storytelling  (4.5 units)
 VEED1003  Essential Multimedia  (4.5 units)

Elective - Year 1 topics

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)
 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)
 TOUR1103  Introduction to Events  (4.5 units)
 VEED1410  Production Project 1  (4.5 units)
 VEED1411  Art and Design Practice 1  (4.5 units)

Core - Year 2 topics

27 units comprising:

 CREA2102  Innovation and Creative Enterprise  (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)
 ENGL2140  English Literature: Evolutions and Revolutions  (4.5 units)
 INDG2004  Reconciliation and Indigenous Knowledges  (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)
 CREA2103  Music and Emotion: Understanding the Cognitive and Behavioral Effects of Music  (4.5 units)
 CREA2101  Creative Cities: Ecologies of Social Transformation  (4.5 units)
 DRAM2105  Song and Dance  (4.5 units)
 DRAM2200  Theatre and Education  (4.5 units)
 DRAM2201  Theatre Collaborations and Community  (4.5 units)
 ENGL2120  Shakespeare  (4.5 units)
 ENGL2121  Adaptations: Reading Texts and Film  (4.5 units)
 ENGL2130  Crime Fiction and Film: From Poe to the Postmodern  (4.5 units)
 ENGL2141  Life Writing  (4.5 units)
 ENGL2146  Gothic: Terror, Horror and the Supernatural  (4.5 units)
 ENGL2147  Medieval Myths: the Origins of Modern Fantasy  (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)
 PHIL2609  Philosophy and Literature  (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)
 VEED2108  Multimedia Production Part 1  (4.5 units)

Core - Year 3 topics

27 units comprising:

 CREA3103  Applied Creative Practice  (4.5 units)
 CREA3122  Cultural Leadership  (4.5 units)
 CREA3456  Cultural Policy and the Arts  (4.5 units)
 CRWR3001  The Epic  (4.5 units)
 CRWR3002  The Fantastic  (4.5 units)
 SCME3074  Applied Screenwriting  (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)
 DRAM3106  Dramaturgy and New Writing  (4.5 units)
 DRAM3107  Festivals: Performance and Curation  (4.5 units)
 ENGL3112  Comedy and Satire  (4.5 units)
 ENGL3113  Heroes, Monsters and Vikings: Early Medieval Language and Literature  (4.5 units)
 ENGL3114  Writing in the Twenty-First Century  (4.5 units)
 ENGL3211  Telling True Stories  (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)
 VEED3014  VFX Histories and Theories  (4.5 units)

Honours

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.

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