Study the Graduate Certificate of Creative Arts to build on skills developed at the undergraduate level and explore contemporary approaches to creativity. Focus on practical skills that prepare you for career growth while collaborating with creatives from diverse disciplines.

Want the skills to unlock new opportunities in your creative industry?

The Graduate Certificate of Creative Arts allows you to hone your creative practice alongside students from our six creative arts disciplines: visual arts, photography, animation and motion capture, visual communication design, dance and drama. By collaborating with artists from different fields, you’ll broaden your understanding of creativity while developing transferable skills that employers value, such as imaginative thinking, problem solving and leadership.

On top of your core unit of study, you’ll strengthen your creative repertoire with three elective units. Your electives can play to your strengths, or help you upskill in an unfamiliar discipline. Some of your elective options include:

• Writing with the Camera
• Documentary Production Practice
• Arts Marketing
• Introduction to Digital Photography
• Design Thinking and Problem Solving.

Electives units provide lots of practical experience, including industry-relevant creative projects that challenge you to apply theoretical frameworks in teams and as an individual. You can also get hands-on in our professional standard facilities, including TV broadcast studios, dance and drama studios, a professional photographic light studio, visual arts and design studios and dedicated gallery spaces.

To qualify for the award of Graduate Certificate of Creative Arts, a student must successfully complete 1 core unit and 3 electives from within the Master of Creative Arts, Master of Communication or Master of Arts (Writing and Literature)

• 1 credit point course work unit (ACA710 or ACA712)
• 3 credit point of electives chosen from within the Master of Creative Arts, Master of Communication or Master of Arts (Writing and Literature)

Graduate with specialist knowledge, transferable creative skills and real-world experience that prepares you for a diverse range of creative roles in areas such as:

• entrepreneurship and management in the creative arts
• design
• video, sound and multimedia production
• freelancing as a creator or artist
• art production and curation
• consulting.

Your skills will be sought-after in museums and galleries, all levels of government, boutique art companies and design agencies. You can also explore opportunities in festivals, community events and curatorial projects typically funded by government and philanthropic entities.

Entry will be based on performance in: a Bachelor degree in any discipline OR At least two years of relevant work experience (or part-time equivalent)

IELTS: Overall 6.5 No band lower than 6

TOEFL IBT: 79 Writing 21; TOEFL PBT: 577 Writing 4.5

C1 PROFICIENCY and C2 PROFICIENCY: 176 No band less than 169

PTE: 58 No less than 50 in each skill

OET: Overall C+

DUELI EAP PROGRAM: EAP 4 (60%)