Bachelor (Honours)
Storytelling for screen is no longer restricted to big-budget cinema releases and television series commissioned by major networks. The need for quality content for subscription TV mobile devices internet promotional campaigns film festivals and events is leading to lucrative opportunities for multiskilled professionals to generate highly creative captivating productions.
This course gives you a broad base of knowledge skills and experiences to explore a wide range of career options within the film television and digital media industries before specialising in an area of your choice. If your passion is cinematography editing sound or directing you will develop technical skills by producing high-quality creative content. If you are interested in producing you will find your niche as a creative entrepreneur learning how to generate ideas and develop them into finished productions through sourcing funding personnel and distribution. Alternatively you may hone your skills in scriptwriting.
There is an emphasis on creating quality content for a broad range of applications. You will choose from a range of genres including documentary drama television formats and experimental film and be encouraged to consider formats that include film television digital and mobile platforms.
Immerse yourself in the film and screen and new media major with up to 16 discipline units and gain in-depth knowledge in your specialisation. Your law degree component comprises nineteen core units and eight law elective units which can include a third study area as a minor or electives from across QUT.
In the law component there is a practical focus which when combined with film screen and new media study will equip you for a broad range of careers including legal practice and provision of legal services to the film industry.
Graduates work in the film television and screen industries in entry-level positions on film sets for production companies or screen media outlets and as freelance professionals. Career outcomes include cinematography vision and sound editing directing script-writing producing or production management. Your Law degree will provide additional career opportunities within the film and entertainment industry such as media lawyers involved in copyright disputes negotiation of licences and talent agreements. Alternatively law can enhance your skills as a film producer to draft contracts and develop and manage deals. Or you could work as a film maker specialising in crime or legal content within film TV or online media.
Our graduates have gone on to make films or programs that have won Oscars Emmy BAFTA AACTA and IF awards. They have screened at prestigious festivals worldwide including Cannes Tribeca Berlinale Sydney Film Festival Melbourne International Film Festival Sundance Film Festival and Tropfest.
QUT graduates have worked on films including The Martian Hacksaw Ridge Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant Burning Man My Mistress Harry Potter The Wolverine Quantum of Solace The Great Gatsby Les Miserables Batman Returns Battleship and Total Recall.
Television programs include True Detective Westworld Hoff the Record Secrets and Lies The Night Manager Battlebots Australia's Got Talent Big Brother MasterChef (USA) The Voice X-Factor Australian Story Go Back To Where You Came From SLiDE and Absolutely Fabulous The Thick of It and Quick Cuts for BBC London.
Music videos include those for Powderfinger Silverchair Washington and many others.
This course is approved by the Queensland Legal Practitioners Admissions Board. If you want to become a lawyer at the end of your degree you will need to complete further practical legal training (PLT) before you can apply for admission to practice. We offer PLT in the form of the& Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice.
The Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice provides the knowledge skills understanding and values required to become a competent entry-level legal practitioner. The course is available in full-time internal mode and part-time online mode. The course complies with the Law Admissions Consultative Council's Competency Standards for entry-level lawyers and is approved by the Queensland Legal Practitioners Admissions Board.
In order to complete this course you must complete a total of 528 credit points made up of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Fine Arts and 336 credit points from the Bachelor of Laws (Honours). You will study film and screen and new media and law units in your first your years and for the remainder of this course you will concentrate on law studies.
Fine arts componentYou will complete two common units (24 credit points) and a fine arts major (168 credit points) in film screen and new media.
Law componentYou will complete 336 credit points of core units and a mixture of law electives made up of
*Students commencing from 2019 may select a general law elective in place of the introductory law elective
**Students commencing from 2019 have the option to complete the Law Technology and Innovation minor or 4 non-law electives (48 credit points) or a university wide minor in place of 4 general law electives (48 credit points). Successful completion of a minor will be recognised on the academic record and/or the Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement.
Law technology and innovation minor units
Honours-level units
96 credit points of the following honours units will be used to determine the honours levels of the LLB (Hons):
Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners.
Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in either degree area depending on how they match with your QUT course.
In order to complete this course you must complete a total of 528 credit points made up of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Fine Arts and 336 credit points from the Bachelor of Laws (Honours). You will study film and screen and new media and law units in your first your years and for the remainder of this course you will concentrate on law studies.
Fine arts componentYou will complete two common units (24 credit points) and a fine arts major (168 credit points) in film screen and new media.
Law componentYou will complete 336 credit points of core units and a mixture of law electives made up of
*Students commencing from 2019 may select a general law elective in place of the introductory law elective
**Students commencing from 2019 have the option to complete the Law Technology and Innovation minor or 4 non-law electives (48 credit points) or a university wide minor in place of 4 general law electives (48 credit points). Successful completion of a minor will be recognised on the academic record and/or the Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement.
Honours-level units
96 credit points of the following honours units will be used to determine the honours levels of the LLB (Hons):
Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners.
Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in either degree area depending on how they match with your QUT course.