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Graduate Certificate in Creative Industries

  • Graduate Certificate

If you chose to study the Graduate Certificate in Creative Industries at the University of Newcastle you will step into a world of creative exploration. Creative Industries includes professions within creative and performing arts, communications, digital media, visual design and music.

Key details

Degree Type
Graduate Certificate
Duration
0.5 year full-time, 3 years part-time
Course Code
40131, 096165G
Study Mode
In person, Online
International Fees
$19,810 per year / $19,810 total

About this course

If you chose to study the Graduate Certificate in Creative Industries at the University of Newcastle you will step into a world of creative exploration. Creative Industries includes professions within creative and performing arts, communications, digital media, visual design and music. This degree will allow you to expand upon your undergraduate focus in the Creative Industries and enable you to fine-tune your artistic output in a specialist area. Discipline areas include advertising design, architecture, design, electronic games, fashion, film, music, performing arts, publishing, radio, television, visual arts and more.

Set your creative milestones, think critically about your work; learn about the opportunities for marketing your work to national and international audiences; work with like-minded creatives on innovative projects; initiate the start-up you have always dreamed of. Your imagination and creative practice will be at the forefront of this degree as a creator, maker, game-changer or innovator in today's culture. The University of Newcastle collaborates with partners across the spectrum of creative professions and prepares graduates to expand their creative talents and develop hands-on skills that are relevant and in demand across the creative industries.

Study locations

Newcastle City

Online Study

Newcastle - Callaghan

Online

What you will learn

The University of Newcastle's Certificate in Creative Services is centered on practice-based research and investigation. Our core courses focus on practical approaches to thinking about your creative processes and output. The 20 units of core courses, listed below, are held in new, purpose-built facilities that embody collaboration and creative investigation.

  • Research for the Creative Industries - introduces you to research in the creative industries, looking at the application of research methods for academic and professional practice. This module will help you define, scope and pitch your creative project in an ethical and professional manner.
  • Innovation Lab 1 -Thinking it Through - this thought provoking and exploratory module will teach you to critically consider your work within a contemporary creative context. In this course, we will work through your ideas in a collaborative setting and help you to consider how to best bring your vision to the forefront and to fruition.

The above core courses are coupled with a broad range of exciting directed courses in your chosen field of study. The Directed Courses are sourced from the following areas:

  • design
  • screen production
  • creative writing
  • visual arts
  • performing arts
  • music production
  • communication
  • information technology
  • marketing

You can play to your existing strengths or explore a new area of knowledge when selecting your directed courses.

View the full course list

Career pathways

The Graduate Certificate in Creative Industries offers you limitless possibilities and potential to explore concepts in your chosen practice. With your high-level creative skills careers can be paved in some of the following Creative Industries:

  • advertising and marketing
  • creative writing and publishing
  • architecture and interior design
  • graphic and electronic design
  • visual arts, film and cinematics
  • TV, print and radio production
  • music and performing arts
  • digital content and software

You can also take your postgraduate qualification to the next level, opening up further career opportunities with the Master of Creative Industries at the University of Newcastle.