Creative Industries: Graduate Certificate in Creative Industries

What you will learn

• Strategy & Leadership
• Critical thinking
• Creative practice research
• Advanced creative industry knowledge & skills

The Graduate Certificate in Creative Industries is stage 1 of the 3 stages of the Master's course.

• Core Units
• Stage 1: Graduate Certificate in Creative Industries
• Credit points: 10 This Unit operates as a combination of supervised studio time, and peer and mentor feedback sessions. Your mentor will be an expert in their field and possess industry experience.
• Credit points: 10 This unit introduces the concept of creative practice research, including developing an understanding of the creative research paradigm, methodology and methods, and the production of knowledge in and through practice. Learning takes place through rapid creative ideation, discussion, academic writing including the production of a literature review, and the skills to find and critically engage with authoritative sources.
• Credit points: 10 This Unit will introduce students to the fundamental principles and processes of leadership and entrepreneurship. It will introduce the foundations of business and leadership in a way that is relevant to emerging entrepreneurs and those pursuing positions of responsibility within the creative industries. It will explore leadership styles and their context, from self-leadership to servant leadership, from transactional leadership, to transformational leadership and what these leadership styles mean for developing a business. Entrepreneurial resources and terminologies will be covered so that students can plan their first steps and strategies as an entrepreneur in the creative industries.

• Credit points: 10 This unit explores a variety of storytelling structures that operate across different moving image media. The focus is on storytelling techniques that engage audiences emotively. Within this module, you will participate in analytical and creative activities that develop your ability to develop emotional journeys and build audience investment in your stories.
• Credit points: 10 This unit focuses on the clarification of artificial intelligence tools relevant to Design professions, demonstrating the current adaptation and implementation of specific AI tools within existing design processes.
• Credit points: 10 This unit is designed to develop or extend skills in music composition. You will encounter a diverse range of sounds, practices, concepts and strategies related to the composition of music, and produce music compositions for a variety of contexts, and employing a variety of approaches.
• Credit points: 10 This unit provides strategic guidelines for students who want to learn how to develop a creative project that can bring about social change in our community.
• Credit points: 10 Learning in this unit happens through reading and discussion of intercultural theory, exposure to the aesthetics and ontologies of different cultural texts, and assessments and activities that require you to reflect on your own cultural positioning in relation to other cultures.
• Credit points: 10 In this unit, you will initially gain clarification of AR and VR by defining each medium with respect to Mixed-Reality and the Virtuality Continuum.
• Credit points: 10 The aim of this module is to develop your screen storytelling skills through the writing and directing of a short narrative scene.
• Credit points: 10 This unit is designed to develop or extend skills in audio production. You will encounter a range of concepts, and strategies related to audio, and produce projects for a variety of contexts, and employ a variety of approaches.
• Credit points: 10 This course is designed to give students strategic industry engagement guidance for the shaping, honing and development of their personal and professional aptitude, capabilities and workplace confidence.