Creative Arts Charles Darwin University

Overview

The Bachelor of Creative Arts is delivered from an Australian perspective through internal and external delivery to ensure maximum flexibility for learning, with the opportunity to study online, depending on the choice of units and major. Optional field trips in the Northern Territory are available to connect students to on-country arts learning. Students will be inspired by northern Australia's spectacular landscapes and diverse cultures to reflect on and develop their own creative practice.

Career opportunities

The Bachelor of Creative Arts offers an innovative and comprehensive program in contemporary creative arts, leading to careers in music, performing arts and festivals, storytelling and creative writing, screen and digital media, design and the visual arts and contemporary Indigenous arts and production management and leadership roles across the creative industries.

Students will be supported to develop their own unique creative practice. The course enables students to focus on practice-based arts projects that develop skills in working independently and collaboratively. The course is distinct in its perspective, responding to local and global industry and professional pathway opportunities through community-based projects and industry work-placement opportunities, unique to the northern region of Australia.

The student's journey through this program will also develop core transferable skills in communication, collaboration and critical and creative thinking to prepare them to participate in multi-disciplinary areas of the creative arts workforce locally and globally.