Find your own niche and build an exciting career in the creative industries.
This flexible degree can be tailored to suit your own interests and talents to develop specialist creative arts, communications and digital media skills. With the opportunity to select a combination of specific discipline study areas, you’ll graduate with a range of proficiencies and flexibility of employment choices in the growing creative industries.
Please register your major/minor combination in your first semester of study
- Only a full-time option is available to international students on a Student visa. Online programs are not available to Student visa holders.
- * Estimated tuition fees are based on 2025 rates. Refer to international fees for more information.
- Not all majors/minors and elective options are available at every campus. You should refer to the What Can I Study tab, and the proposed study sequence for your chosen campus and intake for further information.
This flexible degree can be tailored to suit your own interests and talents to develop specialist creative arts, communications and digital media skills. With the opportunity to select a combination of specific discipline study areas, you’ll graduate with a range of proficiencies and flexibility of employment choices in the growing creative industries.
Creative Industries is one of the fastest growing, most dynamic and diverse employment sectors. But while the production of films, books, games and news content remains at the core of creative work, creative workers are not only found by looking in film studios, games companies or artists’ garrets. Skills and capabilities developed in the Bachelor of Creative Industries can be used to create new services and products and drive innovation in the not-for-profit and government sectors, as well as in commercial organisations across the economy.
This is a broad-based degree program that enables you to choose from a huge range of areas of study, including creative advertising, creative writing, design, serious games development, screen and media studies, and drama.
You'll be offered opportunities to undertake internships with real clients to gain practical experience and develop your network of professional contacts. You can also undertake an industry or research project that will develop, refine and showcase your knowledge and command of the creative industries. And you could even travel abroad to study at one of USC’s 70+ partner institutions worldwide with the Study Overseas program.
When you graduate, take with you a strong industry and business mindset as well as a professional portfolio to make your mark in the creative industries.
Study two majors or a major and two minors in areas that spark your creative energy.
Majors
Creative Advertising; Creative Writing; Drama; Graphic Design; 3D Design; e-Media Design; Marketing; Screen and Media Studies; Serious Games Design.
Minors
Creative Advertising; Creative Writing; Drama; Graphic Design; 3D Design; e-Media Design; Marketing; Music; Screen and Media Studies; Serious Games Design; Digital Photographic Practice; Events Management; Entrepreneurship.
Career opportunities
Multimedia, video game and digital entertainment design, performance creation, screen and media, creative communications, design, marketing.
Program structure
Program Structure
Introductory courses (3)
CMN102 Applied Mathematics
CMN103 Communication Theory and Practice
COR109 Introduction to the Creative Industries
Advanced course (17)
Select 1 course from:
CMN303 Communication and Thought
ENT311 Screen and Media Industry Project
PLUS select 16 courses to complete 2 majors or 1 major and 2 minors from:
Major courses
Creative Advertising
Creative Writing
Drama
Graphic Design
3D Design
e-Media Design
Marketing
Screen and Media Studies
Serious Games Design
Minor courses
Creative Advertising
Creative Writing
Drama
Graphic Design
3D Design
e-Media Design
Marketing
Music
Screen and Media Studies
Serious Games Design
Digital Photographic Practice
Events Management
Entrepreneurship
Elective courses (4)
Select 4 elective* courses from either the Faculty of Arts, Business and Law or the Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
*The number of elective courses may vary depending on the major/minor combinations chosen
Note: Not all USC courses are available on every USC campus.
Total units: 288
Recommended study sequences
Program requirements and notes
Program requirements
In order to graduate you must:
- Complete 3 required introductory level (100 coded) courses
- Complete 1 required advanced level (200 coded) course
- Complete 2 majors or 1 major and 2 minors
- Complete 4 elective courses
- Complete no more than 10 introductory level (100 coded) courses, including the core course
- Register your selected major and/or minor
Program notes
- Courses within this program are assessed using a variety of assessment methods including essays, seminar presentations, reports, in-class tests and examinations. Not all courses will necessarily include all methods
- Some required introductory courses may count towards some minors
- As part of your USC program, you may apply to Study Overseas to undertake courses with an overseas higher education provider
- Music minor courses available through the University of Southern Queensland in an on-line only mode. Cross-Institutional application required
- Only a full-time study option is available to international students on a Student Visa
- The number of elective courses may vary depending on the major/minor combinations chosen
- It is important to register your major/minor combination in your first semester of study so as not to affect your program progression
- When enrolling, refer to the Study Plan