Single-unit study
You can study individual units for personal or professional development without having to apply for a full QUT course.
If you successfully complete a unit, you may be eligible for credit if you decide to apply for a degree course in the future.
Units anyone can study
These units don’t have any requirements for previous study or background knowledge.
But if your previous studies were not in English, or were completed in a country where English is not the first language, you will need to demonstrate that you meet our English proficiency requirements when you apply.
Creative industries
Communication
CCB103 Digital Games, Culture and Society
This unit introduces approaches to studying digital games as cultural artifacts and for considering the role games play in society. It will place video games in their historical context, relating to other forms of mediated play such as board games, sports and toys, it will trace the history of the video game industry, and will consider how games relate to social and cultural issues and controversies. You will investigate how games relate to other forms of media, particularly social media, digital platforms and AI and how they are located within industrial structures and processes. You will consider how games function as entertainment, spaces for social connection and as a venue for social commentary and advocacy.
CYB111 Communication and Collaboration
This unit examines communication between individuals and teams in academic and professional settings. Through a theory/practice nexus, it aids in developing practical skills needed for effective communication such as giving and receiving feedback, collaborating with others, evaluating messages, presenting material in a professional manner and reflecting on communication experiences. With a focus on intrapersonal and interpersonal skills, this unit strengthens current communication practices in live and mediated settings. Presenting meaningful messages in both small and large groups, working on shared professional documents and reflecting on personal communication skills will provide a strong foundation for future studies and the workplace.
CYB114 Understanding Media Industries
This unit introduces the core concepts, analytical frameworks, and professional practices necessary to understand how the media industries operate as complex economic and cultural phenomena. This includes a comprehensive overview of media industry structures and functions, production and distribution processes, regulatory and technological conditions, ecological implications, and labour practices. You will also explore the political, economic, and cultural foundations of the media industries in national, regional, and global contexts. You will engage with media industry professionals as guests where appropriate to establish a capacity for the subsequent study of and employability in the media industries.
CYB115 Understanding Audiences
This unit introduces the ways in which the media, entertainment, and news industries have imagined, measured and monetised their audiences. Understanding that audiences are powerful economic and cultural constructions in the media and entertainment industries, the unit examines how researchers and industry professionals build knowledge about how people use media and the role that it plays in their lives. The unit establishes a theoretical foundation in audience studies, as well as explores a range of research methods that are used to study audiences/users, and prepares students to evaluate different types of knowledge claims about audiences.
CYB116 Understanding the Internet and Data
This unit explores the centrality of the internet as a communication tool in both the workplace and everyday life. It explores how internet technologies and digital communication platforms refashion communication practices and social organisation, including the centrality of debates around online behavior and codes of conduct. The unit also introduces students to basic data literacy and digital analytic skills.
KKB190 Yatdjuligin - Cultural Safety in Indigenous Australian Context
Culturally Safe practice is an essential element in a professional's ability to work in a holistic and accountable way with Indigenous Australian peoples and their communities. This requires deconstruction of your own cultures, values, beliefs and attitudes by taking you on a learning journey that allows you to move beyond cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity through to cultural safety.This unit will prompt you to develop your own strategies to be a culturally safe practitioner in both innovative and creative ways.
Creative arts
BAB302 Impact Lab: Community and Industry Engagement
This unit will enable you to consolidate and apply the knowledge and skills you have learned and experienced over your course. Through a community or industry project you will identify and analyse an authentic challenge, offer and defend a creative solution, and reflect on your strengths and career readiness to action the solution. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and insights this unit will enable you to apply examples that consider social and cultural sustainability, technological solutions and impact, and personal perspectives and ethics when responding to real world opportunities and challenges.
KYB110 Art, Text and Context
This is a foundational unit in the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree that introduces you to the critical contexts of creative works and practices, including: how they make meaning, their varying contexts, how they circulate, how these might change over time This is done through an introduction to: some of the key aesthetic, conceptual and technical ideas that underpin a range of creative practice disciplines; critical thinking and the critical analysis of creative works and practices; understanding what it means to be a critical viewer/reader/listener/artist; some different and diverse perspectives on various creative forms, works, and practices, including the contribution that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and thinkers have made across a range of disciplines.
KYB210 Art and Social Change
This unit critically examines the relationship between art, culture and social change. Drawing on art in its broadest multidisciplinary sense, you will learn about: Some key examples of art's relationship to social change since 1945, including visual, audio, and performance practices and movements. The impact of art as both a stimulus to and response to cultural, social and environmental issues The power dynamics underpinning the creation of and representation of diverse identities and communities in art, including First Nations perspectives. The responsibility of artists as creative practitioners and cultural intermediaries and the importance of critical and contextual research in creating work for publics. This unit builds on some of the foundational concepts and approaches introduced in KYB110 Art, Text and Context.
KZB104 Photomedia
Making, reading, and critically analysing complex photomedia images are essential 21st-century creative skills. This unit develops these skills through a combination of aesthetic, conceptual, and technical activities, addressing visual literacy, experimental and critical artistic enquiry, and the protocols related to ethical and inclusive photomedia practice. You are introduced to a diverse range of contemporary artistic photo imaging concepts and methods in the context of photographic history and encouraged to develop your own creative responses by experimenting with a range of approaches to photomedia image making.
KZB120 Australian Voices
The ability to recognise, analyse and engage with key aspects of one’s national artistic culture is an important part of a creative practitioner’s work life. This unit analyses works of contemporary Australian creative practice, focusing on how artistic culture in Australia is positioned in terms of industry and institutions, artistic forms, changing concepts of practice, and the crucial place of First Nations stories. This unit equips you with both creative and analytical skills in a range of Australian contexts and practice areas, that is, Acting, Drama, and Technical Production; Creative Writing; Dance; Film, Screen and Animation; Music; and, Visual Arts. It offers discussion of the breadth and diversity of contemporary works in Australia, and an understanding of the broader cultural contexts of their production. The unit supports your development as a creative arts practitioner by connecting you to national communities of practice and their audiences in Australia and abroad.
KZB290 Production Management
This unit introduces the skills and essential industry knowledge to equip students from all disciplines to successfully manage creative projects – whether they are large scale creative projects or your own individual creative practice. This unit will look at the management of all forms of creative practice, from live performance, events and exhibitions, music concerts, film projects, touring production, and more. Students will learn how to schedule, budget, assess risks and manage the logistics of creative productions, all while expanding their understanding of the key industry awards that govern Australian creative industries, from broadcast to live performance to print media. This unit is ideal for students wanting to work as production managers in all creative fields, as well as students wishing to self-manage creative projects.
Creative writing
KWB104 Writing Fiction
This unit investigates the techniques and elements of writing fiction, beginning by looking at the short story and moving on to looking at the novel. The writing of short stories has traditionally been a starting place for writers to begin developing their craft. Initially via the short story, this unit explores the elements of fiction such as character, voice, setting, plot, dialogue, point of view and modulation. The unit then moves to investigating further elements of fiction using the novel as its focus, helping you acquire and practice skills in creative writing. In this unit you will also learn to analyse prose fiction for craft elements in a way that informs and illuminates your own work. In addition to lectures, tutorial based peer-critique workshops are a central part of this unit. Within them, in a guided and structured way, you will get and give feedback on the stories as they are being written.
KWB113 Introduction to Creative Writing
This unit provides the fundamental skills for writing fiction and poetry as well as the basic theoretical background that underpins them. It looks at the foundational techniques required to write successfully in each mode and explores how a practitioner might best approach both writing and critical analysis in the contemporary context. It develops a critical understanding of your own and others’ approaches to writing life. You will be encouraged to develop the skills required for professional writing through a series of tasks that introduce key concepts such as characterisation, constructing a scene, writing dialogue, and creating imagery.
KWB118 Genre Writing and Storytelling
This unit surveys current trends in genre writing and popular fiction with a focus on essential storytelling techniques. You will look in detail at the biggest genres in publishing, including romance, science fiction, fantasy, and crime writing, gaining insight into the traditions, parameters, and possibilities of each. The unit will develop your understanding of genre theory through an investigation of the social and political underpinnings of key genres, and through the practical application of these ideas and perspectives in your own writing. You will develop a piece of writing that makes use of the techniques of your chosen genre and that reflects the appropriate concerns and themes. The unit aims to develop your critical understanding of your approach to the writing life.
KWB212 Poetry and Poetics
This unit provides important creative and critical skills in writing poetry and cultivating an understanding of how to interpret and use poetic techniques. It explores a spectrum of contemporary and traditional forms of poetry, and is designed for those who are interested in poetics and the use of words in precise, innovative, concentrated and musical ways. It equips students with knowledge of the techniques, poetic forms and modes, and the opportunity to apply this vocabulary in analysing and reading a wide range of contemporary poetry. The unit provides key creative and critical skills in writing poetry, while offering you the chance to practice in a variety of poetic forms and modes, reflectively writing about your own poetry and analytically writing about the stylistics of another person’s work. The unit occurs at the mid-point of the creative writing major, preparing you for the advanced work of third year.
KWB319 Dangerous Ideas: Contemporary Debates in Writing
This unit introduces you to the key debates and ideas animating the field of contemporary creative writing, and allows you to consider your own writing practice in the context of these debates. The unit helps you to develop a nuanced understanding of the issues preoccupying contemporary writers, to gain insight into the historical and cultural factors informing those issues, and to articulate your own perspectives via conversation and debate. You will encounter a spectrum of ideas about what it means to be a writer today as well as the historical and cultural factors informing our ideas of authorship.
Design
DYB122 Design Visualisations
This unit Introduces you to design visualisation practice and how to employ a variety of techniques to visualise design ideas to assist you in design thinking, research, communication and presentation.
DYB123 Emerging Design Technology
The design industry is rapidly evolving with the introduction of new technologies. This unit introduces you to existing and emerging technology and how it applies to the design process and design outputs. Designers need to be familiar with technology to aid them in the design process as well as being able to create new products, services or experiences that take advantage of existing and emerging technologies.
DYB124 Design Consequences
Design Consequences is an introductory unit employing theoretical and applied methods to explore the ways in which design influences and is influenced by cultural traditions and practices, beliefs and biases. Working across frames of past, present and future, you will learn how to critically engage with and draw upon these cultural factors and influences to shape and define your design work and practice.The twenty-first century presents designers with a challenging context characterised by the increasingly dramatic effects of climate change, growing levels of inequality, and destabilised geopolitical conditions. This unit will introduce you to a range of ideas, methods, and approaches necessary to understand design not only as products, environments, services and experiences but also as a social, cultural, political, and economic agent.
KKB181 Creative Industry Foundations and Futures
This unit comprehensively explores the creative industries, providing a foundational understanding of their context, challenges, and opportunities. It delves into the multifaceted world of creative sectors, learning about key trends and dynamics. You will identify and align your personal values and interests within the creative industries, helping to shape your career aspirations. The unit will provide you with opportunities to gain insights into the diverse ways of working within these industries, from freelancing to corporate settings, and position yourself strategically. The unit also introduces desktop graphics content creation and printing/fabrication essentials, empowering you with practical skills using graphics software, providing technical literacy in a crucial aspect of creative industry work. This unit serves as an essential stepping stone for individuals seeking to embark on a successful and fulfilling journey in the creative industries.
KKB185 Creative Enterprise Studio 1
In Studio 1, students develop both enterprise skills and collaborative foundational design thinking skills to better understand the problem space for unique industry or community-based problems. As such, the unit responds to opportunity identification and value creation aligned to industry and/or community-based real world needs. Whilst the value of disciplinary expertise remains constant in this changing world, many problems facing organisations and societies naturally span disciplines. Collaboration and inquiry into these real world problems require a breadth of knowledge and skills in ways that demand and reward curiosity and innovation. Being the first of three Creative Enterprise Studio units, your ability to respond to complex and unique real world problems is strengthened by learning to think and act in diverse ways and draw upon perspectives, methods and insights garnered from the multiplicity of disciplines in your unit cohort.
Digital media
CCB106 Popular Culture
The products, practices, and pleasures of popular culture are frequently dismissed as being superficial, unserious, or unimportant. This unit, however, celebrates popular culture as a contested and shifting phenomenon that permeates everyday life. Far from mundane, popular culture is charged with a political valence that reflects—and shapes—our lives. This unit further develops conceptual framework(s) and analytic tools to critically evaluate the texts, artefacts, and/or practices of popular culture. In completing this unit, students will understand how the communication industries produce and circulate popular culture, and will be able to critique the politics of pleasure that frame the consumption of mass culture.
CCB201 Australian Media
This unit evaluates the industrial and cultural logics of Australian media. You will develop an understanding of contemporary debates, issues and developments and will learn about how the media in Australia are shaped by a range of factors including digital distribution technologies, ownership structures and cultural policy. The unit engages with questions of national culture and identity, amid the intense internationalising forces impacting Australian media industries. Understanding the technological, economic, and policy contexts within which Australian media operate will help you to form ethical media choices and professional communication practices.
CCB202 Social Media, Self and Society
Social Media has had a tremendous impact on our lives as individuals and members of larger societies. The debates surrounding these new and powerful technologies are often multi-faceted in their complexity. In this unit you will develop skills in critically examining and contributing to debates about social media’s impact on issues such as identity, privacy and the ethics of everyday life. You will draw on scholarly research to evaluate opposing perspectives and become critically informed communication professionals. Please note the online offering of this unit will be available to eligible online BCI students only.
CCB205 Digital Media Analytics
This unit equips you with critical understanding and skills in contemporary research and practice methods as they are applied to digital content, platforms and networks. From computational analyses of ‘big social data’ to close qualitative analysis of digital media platforms and practices, the approaches, methods and tools that are grounded in and suitable for the study of digital media are expanding and evolving rapidly. This unit aims to provide you with critical understanding and practical skills in how to select and implement contemporary digital approaches to the collection, analysis and interpretation of various forms of communication data, such as social media content (both textual and visual).
CCB206 Global Media and Culture
This unit provides students with a critical understanding of the economic, political, and cultural dimensions of global media industries. It introduces key disciplinary theories and debates about the creation, circulation and consumption of media content as it circulates across different locations and cultures. The unit also enables students to develop skills and knowledge necessary for living and working in globally diverse communities and professional contexts. The unit may survey a range of media industries and cultural forms and/or focus on a single site of global activity as it explores the inherently transnational nature of the content we consume.
CCB306 Media and Communication Capstone
The ability to engage audiences is a persistent challenge in today's media and communications industries, and is therefore a highly sought-after skill. In this capstone unit you will demonstrate your proficiency in the methods, tools, and analytic approaches used to engage audiences through a ‘real world’ media and communications project. This unit builds upon core knowledge and skills gained throughout your degree, particularly your theoretical and applied understanding of audiences. In doing so, it develops your professional capacity for independence, leadership, confidence, and collaboration. This unit equips you with in-demand knowledge and capabilities to prepare you for your career in the dynamic media and communications industries.
Drama
KTB130 Foundations of Drama and Performance
This foundational unit provides you with a comprehensive introduction to the diverse landscape of dramatic arts. It explores a spectrum of theatrical forms including classical, commercial, post-dramatic, musical, and community theatre, with a strong emphasis on the sociocultural and historical contexts that shape these practices, including the role of First Nations works and artists in the Australian context. Industry aligned case study examples encourage you to critically engage with dramatic roles, which may include the director, producer, performer, designer, and teaching artist, examining how each contributes to the creation and communication of meaning in performance. This fosters analytical and collaborative skills through exposure to extant scripts, staged readings, and associated opportunities to develop and practice dramatic performance skills.
KTB131 Technology in Live Performance
This unit immerses you in the evolving intersection of technology and live performance. Blending theoretical inquiry and practical experimentation, you will explore both the conceptual underpinnings and creative practices of incorporating technology into dramatic world-making, through the investigation of established and emerging tools – such as projection mapping, augmented and virtual reality, motion capture, artificial intelligence (AI) and interactive media. The unit considers the historiographical framing of technological integration, encouraging you to contextualise innovations within broader artistic and cultural movements while also considering their own relationships with technology and artistic expression. You will engage in hands-on labs and conceptual design projects where possible, supported by ethical frameworks for AI use where appropriate, preparing you to navigate and contribute to the future of technologically enhanced performance.
KTB132 Drama Facilitation and Creative Community Engagement
This unit equips you with the skills to design and deliver applied theatre experiences that foster social inclusion, wellbeing, education and/or community engagement. Drawing on community-art and arts-health methodologies as well as applied drama practices – such as epic theatre, process drama and/or Boalean theatre systems – and facilitation theory, you will learn to create responsive workshops tailored to diverse populations. The curriculum integrates leadership, directing practices and collaboration, with flexible delivery models negotiable within the frameworks provided through the interrogation and assessment of industry-aligned resource materials. You will engage with real-world briefs from community organisations, developing portfolios that reflect ethical engagement and creative strategy. The unit positions community theatre as a vital, realistic and respected career pathway.
KTB133 Script and Performance Analysis
This unit offers a rigorous exploration of dramatic texts and performance interpretation. You will engage with a range of genres and theatrical forms – which may include but not be limited to Realism, the post-dramatic and/or Theatre of the Absurd – developing skills in dramaturgy, theatre criticism, and scene study. The curriculum encourages reimagining extant texts through contemporary lenses as well as developing skills for writing new works, fostering innovation and critical reflection. Assessments include multimodal submissions and peer critique, promoting diverse modes of communication and analysis. Industry engagement is facilitated through live performance analysis and script development and performance workshops, providing you with practical experience in shaping and evaluating dramatic works.
KTB219 Directing
This intermediate praxis unit investigates notions and functions of direction and creative leadership in the fields of theatre, drama, mediated and live performance. Through engaging with models of directorial best-practice and examining influential practitioners you will unpack the process of leading creativity from both a collaborative and personal perspective, with the aim of achieving a unified creative vision in consideration of emerging ideas in sustainability, diversity and technology and how these things may shape considerations of leadership. Whether within conventional hierarchical structures or collaborative models, delivering creative outcomes requires not only knowledge of the personal, logistical, curatorial, and sustainable artistic processes of creation, but also an understanding of the processes to safely navigate from concept to fullest expression.
KTB220 Directing, Leadership and Performance
This advanced unit focuses on the art and craft of directing within collaborative performance environments. You will develop rehearsal strategies, leadership techniques, and aesthetic vision through practical directing labs and peer-led projects. The unit integrates observation and feedback-giving as core competencies, supported by reflective writing and the option to experiment with AI-assisted visualisation and creative expression tools. Industry engagement includes a focus on prominent and guest directors where possible, and identifying industry opportunities for practice, enabling you to refine their skills in professional contexts. The unit fosters independent thinking and strategic planning, preparing you for leadership roles in the performing arts and across their careers and multitudinous career paths.
KTB221 Theatre and Performance Futures
This unit prepares you to become entrepreneurial leaders in the performing arts. It covers essential skills in producing, budgeting, grant writing, and project management, framed within the ecological and social contexts of theatre-making. You will respond to real industry briefs, developing immersive pitch presentations using digital, online and other technology-enabled to present and share their creative contributions. Ethical AI use is embedded throughout, with alternative pathways for you if you opt out. Guest lectures where possible, for example from funding bodies and successful practitioners, provide insight into sustainable career strategies and innovative production models.
KTB320 Theatre Industries: Identity and Engagement
This unit supports you in articulating their professional identity and engaging with audiences across digital and live platforms. You will tailor their learning experience, electing to explore career pathways in directing, producing, education, arts-health, and/or administration, developing portfolios that may include websites, self-tapes, branding strategies and any other artefacts relevant to their chosen field. The unit emphasises reflective practice and strategic communication, with opportunities for placements or shadowing in-industry encouraged. Deep research of the industry and potential roles and opportunities within it is paired with creative ideation, ensuring you graduate with a clear sense of purpose and readiness for diverse roles in the creative industries.
KTB330 Negotiated Performance Project
This capstone unit empowers you to conceive, develop, and present a major performance project that reflects their artistic identity and professional aspirations. Projects may be solo, collaborative, or community-based, incorporating directing, producing, technology, or applied theatre practices. You will design audience engagement strategies and document their process through public showcases and digital media/documentation. Flexibility is built into the unit to support diverse needs, with options for external partnerships and alternative formats, negotiated with the Unit Coordinator and/or teaching team on a case-by-case basis. Industry attendance and feedback are integral to the final presentation, reinforcing real-world relevance and professional standards.
Fashion
DFB104 Fashion Sustainability
This unit provides you with a foundational knowledge of environmental and social impacts of the fashion system. The unit examines the environmental and social impact of materials, production and consumption methods in order to develop the skills and mindset to apply more sustainable practices. It also introduces fashion systems as complex supply chains spanning raw fibre through to manufacturing, design, retailing and garment use, and disposal systems at end of life.
DFB208 Fashion Textiles
This unit covers applied textile design in the past, present and future. It will explore the cultural, social and industrial significance of textiles. The unit will provide opportunities to learn about the techniques involved with textile production. You will draw on this to experiment with and design textiles in line with industry trends and challenges, and explore avenues in speculative design into textile futures.
DFB216 Wearables
This unit introduces wearable product design for the purposes of enhancing the user experience within a given context. It provides knowledge and skills to design interactive wearable products. It focuses on demonstrating the use of emerging technologies and rapid prototyping techniques for the purposes of designing wearable products that enhance the user experience within a given context. This unit is designed as an intermediate experience of your course and as such it is desirable that you have completed design foundation units, tangible media or textiles and technology units prior to enrolling in this unit. This unit provides you with opportunities to build, develop and apply creative design proficiency in the context of wearable design and wearable technologies.
Film, screen & animation
KNB110 Virtual Art Department: 3D Assets and Virtual Worlds
Like a traditional art department, the virtual art department (VAD) is focused on shot design, layout, visual development, and creating production-ready digital assets and worlds to be used in a range of production approaches and fields such as Film, Animation, Virtual Production, Games, visualisation, and immersive experiences to name a few. This unit explores the methods, applications, and theories of 3D and real-time asset production and virtual environment creation (world-building). You will learn about the fundamental components of 3D asset production, including textures, mesh, materials, and other aspects, and build abilities to create 3D assets using current production processes. This unit will also delve into approaches to environment creation and how assets can be adapted and adjusted to suit specific needs. You will learn about environmental narrative and how locations can be used to tell stories, as well as the impact of environments on narrative.
KNB210 Animation Project Development
Through a practice-based study of innovative industry and emerging pipelines, you will gain a critical and practical understanding of the processes and resources needed to design, develop and render a variety of animated outcomes. Extending this knowledge, there will be an opportunity to experiment with emergent transmedia workflows, such as integrating non-linear content using a gaming engine pipeline. Learning will evaluate techniques, methods and practices for production of animated films and other projects, including augmented, virtual and extended reality (VR/XR) workflows. Students will extend their professional practice through evaluation and application of animation studio workflows. As well as providing a deep dive into technical and creative workflows common to the animation industry, this unit will extend knowledge for students wishing to undertake 'above the line roles' in animation workflows such as Producer, Director and Production Manager.
KPB116 Introduction to Screenwriting
This unit introduces various principles, elements and processes for script development with a focus on fictional storytelling for the screen. The unit examines and applies screen language to develop stories for the screen, including generating and selecting ideas best suited to the audio-visual medium, script development processes, writing synopses and drafting screenplays. The unit addresses principles of storytelling, industry standards and practical skills involved in developing projects for narrative productions within film, television and other media. The focus is on how to develop ideas, create engaging characters, and construct scenes for visual mediums. Writing scripts for a range of screen media formats is a learned craft and requires discipline, perseverance, and an understanding of industry practice. Possessing this key knowledge provides capabilities to develop concepts through to script stage.
Interaction design
DXB111 Introduction to Web Design
This unit introduces concepts and skills underpinning the user-centred design of web sites using the web technologies such as HTML and CSS. It enables you to understand web technologies as a medium to explore design concepts and to build responsive, high-fidelity, mobile-first web sites. This includes translating conceptual designs into responsive websites while taking into account principles of interface and user experience design, layout, style and navigation. The unit enables you to formulate solutions to design problems, to produce high quality technical and aesthetic outcomes, and to understand the basic skills needed by web design professionals.
DXB205 Interactive Narrative Design
This unit serves as an introduction to creating immersive environments and building interactive worlds for player performance and dramatic agency. The role of the narrative designer is central to the success of any significant professional project in interactive media and game design. The unit addresses theoretical issues associated with immersive / non-linear story structures and interactive narrative forms through the analysis of game / play systems, the creation of original game concepts and the application of techniques of narrative design. It extends this understanding into practice through the application of relevant skills, which will scaffold you into the production of a portfolio work (suitable for interaction designers, visual communication designers, game designers, media designers, creative writers and performance studies).
Journalism
CJB105 Shortform News Production
Journalists must be able to produce content that engages audiences across a range of formats and platforms. In this unit, you will develop the ability to successfully perform a range of newsgathering activities, including interviewing and live blogging. Drawing on this newsgathering activity, you will produce under ‘real world’ deadlines professional quality audio and video content that is suitable for TV, radio, or digital platforms. You will also apply multimedia skills to produce transmedia content that supports contemporary journalism practices, and create digital communication content that engages and/or persuades audiences. In addition to producing content, you will undertake editorial roles that support successful short form news production, and understand the value of community and collaboration in the multifaceted practice of contemporary journalism.
CJB305 Longform News Production
Longform journalism continues to evolve on a range of platforms, with digital media tools providing exciting storytelling possibilities, including podcasts and multimedia features. This unit provides an opportunity for students to apply their advanced journalistic skills in producing longform non-fiction content, primarily using audio or video. You will learn how to generate story ideas and news angles, and select the most appropriate format for telling stories. You will then use research, interviewing and production skills to produce engaging content. This unit also provides opportunities for reflection and constructive critique of your work. The unit aids you in producing credible non-fiction content in a dynamic and appealing style, applying skills that are transferable to areas outside journalism. It also provides awareness of the market for longform non-fiction content.
Music
KMB127 Music Studies
This unit develops students' ability to understand and articulate music's role in cultural, social, and industry contexts, building critical thinking skills essential for informed creative practice. Students explore diverse musical traditions including Australian First Peoples' music, examining how globalisation, technology, race, gender, and economics shape music production and consumption. The unit connects scholarly analysis with practical application, helping students position their own creative work within broader cultural conversations and industry trends.
KMB129 Composition and Sound Design in Digital Environments
Building on recording fundamentals, this unit introduces students to digital music creation, sound synthesis, and interactive audio technologies used across contemporary music, gaming, and multimedia industries. Students develop fluency with Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs), synthesizers, sampling technologies, and programming environments, creating original compositions that demonstrate understanding of digital music production workflows. The unit prepares students for careers in electronic music production, sound design, and technology-enhanced performance while emphasising creative application of technical knowledge.
Professional communication
CCB307 Promotional Communication Capstone
This capstone unit prepares for work-ready graduates by developing students’ adaptive capabilities to thrive in the dynamic promotional communication landscape. It integrates prior knowledge of promotional communication theories, research, industry trends in advertising and public relations, and professional skills required in a digital-first environment. Through classwork, independent study, and real-world projects, students develop an understanding of the local and international relevance of promotional communication, with opportunities to produce a portfolio of applied communication artefacts and engagement projects that contribute to employability in the promotional industries.
CWB111 Scientific and Technical Writing
This unit introduces you to the principles of writing clearly in a science-based context and to the discursive frameworks that inform scientific and technical writing. It aims to provide you with an understanding of the conventions of writing and publishing scientific and technical information and to develop skills in communicating this information for a general audience. Graduates in the fields of engineering, science and information technology are required to assess high volumes of information and to communicate key scientific and technical ideas to a general audience. As such, there are growing industry and research demands for graduates with professional writing skills that deliver clear and well-structured written information about complex material.
CWB200 Interpersonal and Intercultural Negotiation
This unit introduces the wider context of cultural practices that inform communication at the individual and social levels. The unit explores how communication in the workplace and other professional contexts is influenced by factors such as power dynamics, gender, nationality, cultural norms, and ethnicity. It develops your engagement with the theories of and skills for successful intercultural and interpersonal exchange in business and professional relationships in a global context. Your career will be shaped by global forces, events, and contexts. Therefore, to be a global effective communication practitioner, you will need to see communication in the context of social and cultural norms and assumptions.
Visual arts
KAB130 Open Studio: Object/Space
This unit introduces experimental approaches and expanded 3D art practice in the open studio including sculpture, objects, assemblage, environments and installation. These investigations are grounded in understanding 20th and 21st century art practices and key theoretical frameworks in relation to object-making, spatial art, context and site. The expanded field of contemporary sculpture encompasses a broad range of conceptual approaches and material processes including social sculpture, environmental and public art. This unit provides practical activities to develop independent 3D artworks, framed by the theory and practice of site-responsive art and by contemporary Indigenous and ecological perspectives.
KAB140 Open Studio: Time
This unit introduces experimental approaches to 4D media in relation to the open studio and the expanded field of contemporary art. Art practices that creatively explore the interplay between video, sound, performance, installation and digital art invite audiences to critically engage with embodied, interactive, participatory and immersive modes of techno-cultural experience. This unit considers conceptual frameworks and contextual practices in relation to time, the body, duration, and experience. You will engage in a diverse range of practical activities to produce and present independent artworks that investigate time.
Visual communication
DVB101 Visual Communication Design
This unit introduces the principles and conventions associated with the interpretation and production of meaning through visual representation. Visual Communication is based on the creation of meaning through image and text and this plays a critical role in our contemporary world which is visually and media driven. Visual communicators require a deep understanding of conceptual development, design process, typography and image making, and how image-based communication occurs. You will learn how to think and operate as a visual designer through studio-based learning and a series of industry-focused experiences.
DVB305 Design for Health Innovation
The contribution of design-led approaches and methods to innovations in eHealth and healthcare services and technologies is increasing. Challenges impacting Australian and international health sectors require skills and knowledge of consumer- and user-centric approaches. You will become familiar with theoretical frameworks for health and wellbeing and develop knowledge of contemporary design-led approaches to the development of health and wellbeing services, products and experiences. This unit addresses theories, approaches, methods and applications of design to the context of health and wellbeing. It takes into account multiple stakeholder perspectives: health professionals, patients and carers. You will deepen you design skills and knowledge of methods used in Design Thinking to conceptualise, develop and produce a design prototype.
Units you need background knowledge to study
These units have requirements for previous study or background knowledge. Check the unit’s previous study requirements for details. If you have any questions, contact the unit coordinator for the semester you want to study.
If your previous studies were not in English, or were completed in a country where English is not the first language, you will also need to demonstrate that you meet our English proficiency requirements when you apply.
Creative industries
Communication
CCN109 GenAI for Professional Communication
This unit explores the applications of generative AI (GenAI) in professional communication contexts. It equips participants with the skills to effectively use, integrate, and critically evaluate GenAI tools for various professional communication purposes. The unit first introduces participants to the opportunities and risks of using GenAI for audience analysis and for crafting data-driven, targeted messaging using text, sound, and images. Then, participants explore how to integrate GenAI technologies into communication workflows. The module covers how to audit GenAI outputs, navigate associated ethical and regulatory considerations, and manage unexpected organisational consequences.
CCN111 Social Media Data Analytics
Knowing how to analyse social media data sets to answer questions and make decisions that improve content and engagement is a fundamental skill for contemporary communication professionals. It is also essential that future focused communication professionals have both an understanding of how computational technologies transform the world of communication, and the hands-on skills to collect and analyse data. It is included in the early part of the program to develop your foundational data analytics knowledge and computational thinking.
CCN113 Social Media Strategy Project
This Work Integrated Learning unit synthesises the knowledge and skills developed in earlier foundational units associated with effective social media management. It applies them to a professional media and communication industries context. The unit supports the development of collaborative teamwork skills to respond to a real client brief. This reflects the kinds of work that professional communicators undertake.
CCN201 Digital Transformation of Media Industries and the Future of Work
This unit explores how digital transformation impacts on media and communication industries and the working lives of communication professionals. To develop effective communication strategies and pursue work opportunities, communication professionals need to have an understanding of emerging trends in media industries, and how to thrive in this environment as a digital communication professional. As such, the unit provides an advanced and critical understanding of digital transformation, how it disrupts the communication and media industries, and the specific implications for the future of digital communication professionals.
CCN204 Audience Analytics
Digital technologies have transformed the way communicators engage with and understand diverse media audiences. This unit will explore the fundamental theoretical frameworks, methods and metrics for identifying and understanding audiences. An applied and critical understanding of audience analytics is crucial for communication professionals. This unit builds upon and deepens the ideas and methods for audience analysis introduced in earlier units in this course.
CCN205 Data-Driven Storytelling
This unit examines visual communication for information and the application of principles for effective information design. Understanding and engaging with the ever-growing quantities of data is a challenge for both organisations and individuals. Increasingly, experts are required to not only evaluate and prepare this data, but also to identify and communicate it within organisations, or to stakeholders, clients, users, community groups, etc. The effective visual communication of those stories in the data is a design process informed by advanced principles of information design and is critical for audience engagement. Data-driven storytelling is an advanced visual information design unit.
CCN213 Social Media Strategy Project
This Work Integrated Learning unit synthesises the knowledge and skills developed in earlier foundational units associated with effective social media management. It applies them to a professional media and communication industries context. The unit supports the development of collaborative teamwork skills to respond to a real client brief. This reflects the kinds of work that professional communicators undertake.
Creative arts
KKB285 Creative Enterprise Studio 2
This unit furthers your theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to develop enterprise focused creative projects. It links with work previously undertaken in KKB185 Creative Enterprise Studio 1 and prepares you for the final semester capstone unit KKB385 Creative Enterprise Studio 3. You will build upon your foundational understanding of project development gained in KKB185 and develop skills in project delivery and management through to prototyping your creative idea. The concept of iterative design is introduced through reflection on the success of the prototype and recommendations for future iterations and creative experimentation. This unit allows you to extend your project development skills including field analysis, creative experimentation, communication, problem solving and project evaluation.
KKB286 Managing Creative Initiatives: Policy, Project Management and Production
This unit covers essential skills for managing successful creative initiatives. It begins with policy research and analysis to develop skills for interpreting policy and identifying relevant creative venture opportunities. You learn practical skills in producing audiovisual content for online platforms and apply this to advocate for future policy. You will then identify creative venture opportunities, and learn how to develop these into a project plan. This draws on the critical creative project management skills and understanding taught in the unit. Finally the unit also covers the vital skill of writing funding proposals and identifying funding opportunities.
KKB385 Creative Enterprise Studio 3
During this capstone unit you will demonstrate creative leadership by initiating an industry linked creative project. It brings together the skills and knowledge acquired throughout your course, drawing specifically from KKB185 Creative Enterprise Studio 1 and KKB285 Creative Enterprise Studio 2. The unit provides you with a framework incorporating explicit skill development in critical creative competencies (4Cs: Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Context) to develop a project proposal that addresses an identified opportunity. You will then initiate your project proposal, launching your career as a creative industries professional.
KRB131 Lighting Design for Creative Arts
The unit focuses on the creative application of light in creative practice. From live performance, screen, exhibitions, installations, and more, this unit will introduce you to the fundamentals of lighting design practice and approaches. You will explore a range of lighting practices and learn how to apply essential lighting techniques. You will investigate how to use light to convey meaning and create atmosphere, while also learning how to light bodies, materials and spaces. This unit would complement any creative discipline that requires or curates light, such as Acting, Drama, Music, Visual Art, Film, Screen & Animation, Music, Dance, Fashion, Interaction Design, Architecture, and Interior Design.
KYB220 Creative Professional Practice
This unit focuses on the varying professional settings and contexts of your creative practice through a delivery model that features an Industry Immersion intensive and ongoing professional skills development. It is a core unit in the Bachelor of Creative Arts that will address: •The development of a professional identity and presenting yourself publicly through authentic industry engagement •Pitching and developing proposals across diverse creative disciplines •Creative and social entrepreneurship and defining sustainable career pathways •Professional agreements and processes, including contracts, copyright, and intellectual property •Critical analysis of contemporary industry challenges and opportunities •Research methodologies for creative practitioners •Building ethical and sustainable careers in creative practice and the creative industries
KZB260 Advanced Script Development
Narrative drama script development occurs across a range of creative contexts and for a variety of media such as film, television, theatre, streaming services, web series, podcasting, radio drama, animation and story-driven, role-playing games. Often success in one medium can lead to IP being adapted for another. Being able to write for the theatre, the screen or the ear can help build a sustainable writing career. This advanced unit builds skills and knowledge in script development processes to enable you to conceive, develop, write and pitch a compelling short script for a medium of your own choosing.
Dance
KDB206 Dance in Contemporary Culture
Through a series of seminars and practical workshops you will explore different trends in the role and place of dance in contemporary culture. You will explore dance's place in society and the development of trends such as Dance in Museums, Hip-hop culture, Dance as a Political Intervention, and Dance for Well-being.
KDB223 Screen Dance
This unit introduces you to the field of screen dance through a critical and practical engagement with the genre. It addresses screen dance practice from a critical perspective, as well as developing your skills in producing and documenting dance across a range of digital platforms. You will develop skills associated with the conceptualisation, composition, filming and editing of movement for the camera. This unit is designed for those with an interest in the merging fields of dance, choreography, film and video production, shared creative practice, collaboration, and the screen based presentation of dance works. The skills learned will be transferable across a range of different platforms and can be applied to the creation of new screen dance works as well as to documentation of performance and creative process.
KDB320 Independent Dance Project
This unit enables you to adapt and transform your dance skills for artistic expression and is the culmination of your previous two Performance in Context units. This guided experience supports you to develop your skills to work independently and to establish your practice as a teaching artist through the key processual stages including conception, development and realisation of your ideas. You will apply your integrated knowledge of technical skills and artistic practice to effectively initiate and realise an independent dance project. This self-contained, discrete project will enable you to develop your skills, professional identity and aptitude for engagement within a variety of industry contexts.
Design
DYB102 Impact Lab: Society and Systems
This unit addresses methods of social impact design and the ways in which these approaches can contribute to transformational social and community focused change. In it, you experience how design approaches and tools can be applied to complex social and community-based challenges. In a context where design can foster inclusion and act as a disruptor and driver for positive change you as a designer, alongside your design peers, have the collective potential to lead or make a better future. Framed around real world challenges; and in partnership with community, government and/or industry partners; you will engage with transdisciplinary design-led participatory entrepreneurial strategies to address key issues within one or more communities. This will develop skills valuable in designing for social impact. This impact lab focuses on people, to foreground the importance of keeping the human condition at the heart of design practice which enables solutions aimed at social change.
Drama
KSB120 The Actor's Instrument: Communication and Composition
This introductory unit focuses on the continuing acquisition of instrumental skills associated with developing impact and presence in physical and vocal expressiveness, and now applies them to the communication and shaping of dramatic meaning. Highly developed technical proficiency in vocal and physical expressiveness is a fundamental requirement for professional actors. This unit builds on core techniques and concepts introduced in KSB110 associated with theoretical notions of vocal and physical transformation for actors working in screen and stage contexts.
KSB125 Theatricality and the Contemporary Audience
This introductory unit develops your understanding and skills in creating acting performances that dynamically engage with live audiences, requiring you to investigate ways of combining physical and vocal embodiment with genre-appropriate, audience-focused staging conventions. Your enquiry includes exploring how realism and theatricality can be combined to intensify the impact on the audience of dramatic meaning, social commentary and visual storytelling. This enquiry will be informed by engagement with a range of play texts and theoretical perspectives relating to acting issues associated with this form of theatre and its political, social and cultural contexts. The unit challenges you to apply your developing acting, voice, imaginative and embodiment skills and techniques, to the demands associated with performing dynamic roles from complex source material of different genres and cultural contexts.
KSB245 Performing Ideas, Ideology and Social Critique
This intermediate unit sees the creative application of acting and research skills to respond to contemporary plays that confront complex cultural, political or social issues, with scenes to be staged for live audiences and then adapted to being filmed in screen studio settings. These can include the challenge to act in scenes that require considerable investment in understanding complex ideas, fusing psychological and political/philosophical perspectives, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, unusual given circumstances, or digital/green screen environments. (There may also be scenes requiring the application of explicit consent-based protocols such as those that regulate the portrayal of intimacy or violence.)
KSB320 Professionalism, Entrepreneurship and the Creative Actor
This advanced unit provides opportunities to apply your knowledge, skills and understanding to the creation of screen-based works for distribution in traditional and/or digital streaming contexts. These screen-based works will offer a platform to demonstrate the technical sophistication, screen presence, originality, and professionalism you will be seeking to promote to agents, casting directors, producers, and others in your networks as you enter the industry.
KTB114 Interpreting Dramatic Text
Through critical engagement with theories of dramatic interpretation, this foundational unit provides introductory learning experiences to help you effectively perform dramatic text. The notion of “text” is understood as potentially covering a broad range of artefacts and creative stimulus, from classical scripts to inter-disciplinary creative artefacts and even inanimate chosen objects. This unit enables you to develop and apply skills of theatrical interpretation and performance through practice-led process methodologies grounded in theories of dramatic interpretation, rehearsal, and performance. You will work with your peers to critically engage with the interpretation of a source text, before being provided the opportunity to develop a performance of the text and implement the core performing skills needed for this.
KTB115 Devising Drama
This unit introduces models of devising to create a new performance work under the guidance of a tutor/director. The work will be devised in groups and performed at the end of semester. Past and present practitioners have proven that key creatives of many kinds can lead the creation of dramatic works through collaborative models of performance making, which often aspire to include a range of voices, innovating in both form and content.
Fashion
DFB111 Fashion Design Studio 2
This unit provides introductory knowledge and skills for the theory and practice of fashion design, focusing on flat patternmaking and classic western design forms. This foundational unit provides knowledge and skills for the theory and practice of structured fashion design. It addresses fashion design principles, processes and contexts, including the development of effective skills to communicate digitally and realise design ideas in an integrated studio environment. The suite of six Fashion Design Studio units form the foundation of learning for understanding fashion design in the Bachelor of Design (Fashion) program. Embedded in this program is a focus on ethical and sustainable practices.
DFB204 Fashion Product Development
This unit further develops your knowledge, skills and application for professional fashion communication and product development in the fashion industry. It focuses on commercial fashion design and product styling. Developing consumer products in the fashion industry requires diverse skills and knowledge in trend analysis, range building, sourcing, finishing, specification sheets and marketing to ensure successful and sustainable outcomes. By developing a foundational knowledge in product development you will be prepared to work in commercial fashion or to create your own fashion brand.
DFB211 Fashion Design Studio 4
This unit provides knowledge of fashion design for public consumption. In this unit, you will develop and expand skills to conceptualise, communicate and realise design ideas for mass manufacture in an integrated studio environment. You will build on your previously acquired research, conceptual and fabrication skills as well as develop and apply sustainable fashion practice knowledge. You will synthesise your understanding of product development and retail readiness and will learn about the logistical and practical considerations of fashion design and production. The suite of Fashion Design Studio units form the foundation of learning for understanding fashion design in the Bachelor of Design (Fashion) program.
DFB305 Fashion Justice
This advanced level unit deepens your critical fashion engagement and consolidates your skills in fashion communication. It prepares you to play a leadership role in shaping the dialogues that are transforming fashion practices. The aim of this unit is to develop your critical, analytical and communication skills in the context of the global fashion industry and wider cultural debates. Embracing an interdisciplinary approach characteristic of current fashion scholarship, this final unit builds on the theoretical and practical knowledge developed in DFB206 Global Fashion Cultures and DFB209 Global Fashion History and provides you with the opportunity to develop sophisticated research and written communication skills, preparing you to contribute to shaping the dialogues and debates that are changing the contemporary fashion industry.
DFB311 Fashion Design Studio 6
This 24 credit point unit is one of two capstone Fashion Design Studio experiences and aims to provide you with the opportunity to synthesise your prior learning, within university and the workplace, through the production of a final year project that will be outward looking. Within this unit you will develop your confidence and ability to work with minimal supervision in preparation for graduation exploring your individual design aesthetic. During this unit you will complete an extended final year project and will have the opportunity to present your work to industry. The suite of Fashion Design Studio units form the foundation of learning for the Bachelor of Design (Fashion) program.
DFB320 Fashion: Retail and Marketing
This unit addresses core concepts of fashion retail and fashion marketing. It allows students to begin to consider building a brand, and includes considering brand management strategies, a social media presence and the creation of intellectual property, as well as supply chain management for small craft-led brands or large globally focused retail and wholesale operations. It teaches students how to manage a retail presence from traditional perspectives or in a digital context. This is a final year unit and prepares students for entry into the commercial fashion industry.
DFB330 Fashion: Self Directed Project
This unit is a capstone design experience. It provides you with the opportunity to synthesise your prior learning, within university and the workplace, through the production of a final year project that will be future-facing. In this unit, you will develop the confidence and ability to work with minimal supervision while exploring your individual design aesthetic. You will complete an extended final year project with the opportunity to present your work to peers.
Film, screen & animation
KNB115 Crafting Motion in 3D
Enhancing your core animation skill set, you will focus on expressing qualities of character within animated outcomes. With reference to historical and contemporary precedents, you will gain a thorough grounding that will foster the knowledge required to advance in digital character animation. Incorporating a critique and analysis of body mechanics, expression and body language, students will explore and experiment with the nuances of real-world physics within a character animation context. This unit provides students with a comprehensive understanding of 3D animation, while reflecting upon present day technological methods involving aspects such as machine learning, performance capture and optimization with algorithms and the impact on animating characters. A final animated outcome will challenge you through a practice-led investigation of body mechanics and the subtle relationship with character behaviour, applying complex locomotion to an original bipedal character.
KNB315 Advanced Animation Practice
Animators have a long tradition of pioneering new approaches and ideas of animation through experimental animation practice. This capstone unit offers you an opportunity to engage with this tradition by undertaking your own independent or collaborative study of animation through a practice-based inquiry into core concepts and current themes of animation. In this unit, you will be able to specialise in your desired aspects of animation production, create innovative and unique animation works, build content for your individualised portfolio and gain a depth of understanding of animation as a field of study, preparing you for a career in the animation industry.
KPB123 Multi-Camera Studio Production Practice
This unit addresses creative, technical and organisational skills and knowledge required to work in a multi-camera television studio production context. You will develop an understanding of the formats suitable for live production and the practical production skills as a crew member on multiple modes of production which will form the basis of an effective industry-related repertoire. This unit builds on skills developed in previous units to make studio-based multi-camera productions and live broadcast content.
KPB218 Narrative Screen Production
This unit develops an appreciation of contemporary screen narratives by building analytical and collaborative production skills applicable to fictional screen storytelling. It also investigates the application of contemporary narrative screen production approaches via the examination of core areas of specialisation and the production of a short narrative film. The unit will deepen your creative, technical, and organisational abilities in the areas of narrative screen storytelling.
KPB326 Advanced Screen Production Practices
This unit extends your knowledge and skills relevant to the demands and expectations of contemporary screen production practices through practical production experience and exposure in a professional setting. It will extend on screen production experiences in new and unique environments and further equip you with expertise particular to technology and employability in the workplace. This unit will provide you with the opportunity to further specialise in an area of pre-production, production or post production, as you work collaboratively to produce a festival-quality short film.
Industrial design
DNB111 ID Studio 2: Aesthetics and Visualisation
This introductory unit advances knowledge and skills with analogue and digital visualisation techniques to explore, elaborate and communicate your design ideas effectively. The most common and complex aspect of industrial design deals with creating aesthetically pleasing products imbued with meaning and value through form and function. Continuing the development of design process knowledge and skills established in DNB110 ID Studio 1: User Centred Design, this unit delves deeper into ideas of aesthetics and meaning in order to advance the quality of everyday products.
DNB212 ID Studio 5: Applied Technology
This unit provides the skills and knowledge required to design products for manufacture. It advances knowledge on commonly used materials allowing you to gain an understanding of how manufacturing constraints and opportunities affect the design process. Industrial Designers need to be able to design products that are viable for production. They also need to possess skills in translating these constraints and opportunities into viable product designs and to be able to efficiently communicate their design intent to allow that product to be manufactured according to industry standards and capabilities. The unit focuses on 3D parametric Computer Aided Design (CAD) and on how this is incorporated into the design process. Additionally, it provides skills in creating 3D CAD models and using them to communicate design intent. The unit builds on the DNB211 ID Studio 4: Manufacturing Technology unit as well as developing CAD and digital presentation skills.
DNB311 ID Studio 7: Capstone
This is the capstone unit for Industrial Design. It is built upon the earlier Industrial Design units and extends the application of research to the designing products and systems. This is an independent project reinforcing leadership and project management as well as strengthening your expertise. You will focus on research done through design, application of research findings for early and developmental design stages, and will learn to integrate research and design to support novel design ideas. The unit provides you with an opportunity to learn how to manage and lead large authentic projects.
DNB312 Advanced Manufacturing
The aim of this unit is to elevate your knowledge of manufacturing to a level where you can confidently produce products able to be manufactured. It further develops your knowledge of the relationship between manufacturing and design. In this you will gain a greater understanding of manufacturing materials and processes that are commonly used by designers. You will also gain experience applying that knowledge to a design project. For a design to progress from just an idea to becoming a real thing it needs to be able to be manufactured. For this, designers need an in-depth understanding of the ways that products are manufactured and what they can be manufactured from. This forms part of the core technical skills that designers require. This unit builds on previous manufacturing skills and allows for this knowledge to be incorporated into the final capstone unit.
Interaction design
DXB212 Tangible Interaction Design
This unit provides an in-depth exploration of tangible interaction design through the creation of an advanced prototyping project. It integrates theoretical frameworks with hands-on practice, focusing on the design of computational and interactive prototypes that engage users through tangible and embodied interaction. You will develop proficiency in rapid prototyping techniques, producing both low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes, using a variety of design and fabrication methods.
DXB311 Advanced Interaction Design Project
This capstone unit further develops your interaction design skills through the production of a signature project. It focuses on developing your own specialist Interaction Design work which will serve to assist you in defining your professional portfolio and future career pathways. The outcome will also become your major design work to be presented in the final year exhibition. Design for interaction continues to be a transformative and pivotal field of design for contemporary society, encompassing a range of practice from sustainability, usability, and collaboration to the evocative, playful and expressive. New design opportunities and career options continue to emerge and an understanding of future industry practices and an ability to actively engage in these is essential for career success. This subject provides you with the opportunity to explore emerging areas of interaction design through practice-based research, creative focus and a supportive community of learning.
DXB330 Advanced Digital Product Design
This unit provides the skills and knowledge required to design advanced digital products that integrate strategic thinking, user experience, and advanced prototyping. You will engage with the complete digital product design process - from research, ideation, and concept development through to high-fidelity prototyping, user testing, and evaluation. Emphasis is placed on understanding the role of design within contemporary product ecosystems and on developing design outcomes. You will use industry-standard and emerging tools to create digital experiences, applying iterative methods to align user needs, business goals, and technological possibilities. By the end of the unit, You will have developed the capacity to plan, design, prototype digital products that demonstrate professional design standards.
Journalism
CJB204 Social Justice and Journalism Ethics
Journalism has a significant influence on the way people see the world, and how they think about their place within it. Journalism therefore has the ability to both address, as well as exacerbate, existing power imbalances that exist in our culture. This unit provides students with a better understanding of these dynamics, and how they can shape their future professional practice in ways that might better account for the structural advantages and disadvantages that different groups (based on gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class and physical ability) face. The unit will introduce students to the professional codes of conduct under which journalists often operate, and how they apply in the Australian context. The unit also provides opportunities for students to explore real-world ethical dilemmas in the media industry, and to work through examples of applied ethical decision-making. In doing so, the unit aims to produce more socially-conscious, ethical journalism practitioners.
Music
KMB236 Music Performance, Practice and Persona
This unit develops advanced performance skills for contemporary music contexts, integrating live performance, audio documentation, and multimedia presentation techniques used across the modern entertainment industry. Students master stage presence, audience engagement, and technical proficiency while learning to adapt their musical expression to diverse performance environments including concerts, festivals, streaming platforms, and multimedia events. The unit connects performance practice with sound engineering, introducing students to both artist and technical career pathways in live music.
KMB328 Professional Music Practice and Career Development
This capstone unit integrates advanced music practice with comprehensive professional development, preparing you for sustainable careers in today's dynamic music industry. You'll refine your creative and technical skills through intensive music-making while simultaneously developing the business acumen, entrepreneurial thinking, and industry knowledge essential for professional success. The unit emphasises real-world application through professional-standard projects, industry case study research, and hands-on experience with contemporary music business practices. You'll graduate with both a sophisticated creative portfolio and the practical skills needed to navigate and thrive in the contemporary music landscape.
Professional communication
CWB201 Corporate Writing and Editing
Professional communication specialists must have a command of an extensive range of corporate writing genres to create and edit corporate documents. This unit allows you to develop the ability to write in at least two corporate writing genres and be proficient in three other genres. It deals with both the fundamentals of language (grammar, punctuation, style) and common corporate writing genres (manuals, reports, speeches, brochures). As a corporate writing specialist, you must also be able to respond authoritatively to technical and stylistic writing questions when such matters arise in the workplace. You will develop your knowledge about how language works and be able to use that knowledge in practical writing applications. As a result, you will become a more confident writer and communicator in corporate and professional situations.
Visual communication
DVB102 Image Design and Production
This unit provides skills and knowledge for image creation and production across different contexts, styles and media. It also deals with issues of originality, creativity and suitability of images used in professional visual design, while increasing your skills and creative approaches to areas of illustration, information design, photography, and photo media design. It advances knowledge on aesthetic and formal qualities of new areas of image design and a growing technical skill set which will be built upon in further Visual Communication Design specialisation subjects. In a world of easily reproduced digital imagery, the ability to create your own original illustrations, photos, textures and patterns can be highly competitive. Along with developing practical skills to generate original imagery for your design work, the unit further develops your capacity to critique and reflect upon practice.
DVB203 Theories and Methods of Visual Communication
This unit builds on your understanding of the principles of visual communication and its role in determining the values of our contemporary cultures and societies. Through exploring theoretical perspectives, discussions and class exercises you will critique and analyse images and visual communication designs occurring in multiple contexts. In doing so, you will develop further expertise in the production of contemporary communication design and the ethical, social and professional responsibilities of a designer. This unit directly builds upon the Visual Communication and Image Production units while providing opportunities to engage with critical analysis of images and experiences and evidence this through written expression and report writing.