Diploma of Creative Industries

What You Will Learn

Bring together multiple creative passions by studying units in film, music, audio, animation, design, virtual or augmented reality, or game development. The Diploma of Creative Industries allows you to combine your skills across various media and creative technologies, preparing you for a diverse career pathway.

Alongside specialist creative skills in multiple disciplines you will craft your communication, project management and entrepreneurial abilities, learning to think creatively and technically within a complex industry ecosystem. You'll be ready for 21st century industry roles using modern creative business concepts and strategies.

In this course you will engage in projects applying skills learned throughout the course to real life creative scenarios. Through collaborative project design, development, and management you will devise inventive creative solutions, applying ideas and content that uses mixed media and technologies.

Our diploma has been purpose built to blend digital online delivery and face-to-face time with expert mentors across the country, along with time on the latest industry standard tools and software. To complement your technical skills, you will graduate with employability skills, project management skills, industry and business understanding and scholarly techniques for higher education.

Upon completion, you will be eligible for up to 80 credit points towards the Bachelor of Creative Industries.

What jobs will this course lead me into?

• Content producer
• Digital project officer
• Digital coordinator
• Digital content creator
• Arts administrator
• Creative Project Manager
• Digital Media Project Manager
• Entrepreneur

Complete your course faster by studying the 8 units in as little as 7 months (2 trimesters).

• Core Units
• Stage 1: Foundations
• Develop the essential technical skills and the knowledge required to collaborate with other creative media students and professionals.
• Credit points: 10 The skills and knowledge that you will acquire in this unit will assist you in understanding and developing the core communication skills used by entrepreneurs and practitioners across the creative industries.
• Credit points: 10 This unit builds on project design elements introduced in the first trimester and focuses on core principles in project management. In this unit, you will act as project manager for your work or collaborate with others to develop robust systems and processes for projects. Through these practical projects, you will understand basic project management concepts allowing you to plan, initiate and execute ideas effectively. To complement these concepts you will be introduced to core principles of ownership, copyright, and Intellectual Property (IP) as related to the Creative Industries, and how you can use marketing concepts involving storytelling & branding to connect ideas with audiences.
• Credit points: 10 This unit explores the concepts of entrepreneurship, innovation and project design. You will develop approaches to identify promising opportunities and actionable strategies to transform them into tangible successes. Through exposure to developing new ideas, processes and ways of working - both individually and in entrepreneurial teams - you will hone skills to put creative ideas into practice and achieve real-world impact. As Alan Kay explained, "The best way to predict the future is to create it", so let's get at it!