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Master of Creative Industries

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Master of Creative Industries

Take ownership of your career

Discover your leadership potential in the creative or cultural sector with the Master of Creative Industries.

Enjoy the freedom of choice with this highly customisable course. Complete 12 units from a broad range of elective options, from marketing to user-experience, conservation to entrepreneurship, and finance for creative businesses. Get inspired with guest lecturers and course content from leaders working in the nation’s top creative and cultural institutions. Plus, build networks that will help shape the future deals and connections of your career.

You call the shots

Mix and match units

Connect and grow

Build networks that will shape your career

Let your career thrive

Gain the skills needed to excel in your career

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Course highlights

Course highlights

 Tailor your degree to suit you and your career goals

 Take your degree step by step so you can balance work, life and study

 Refine your professional judgement, negotiation skills and creative problem-solving skills

 Refine your ability to form and nurture business relationships

Graduate
In 2 years (full-time), 4 years (part-time) *

Intakes in February and July

16 units*

$3,125 per unit (Domestic students)
$4312.50 per unit (International students)
(FEE-HELP available)

fast-fact

*Students continuing from a recognised Graduate Certificate in the Creative Industries suite will only need to complete 12-units, completing in 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time.

Career outlook

With over 1,500 active creative business in the ACT and the largest proportion of creative knowledge workers in Australia (5.6%), the creative and cultural sector is booming in the national’s capital. As a result, the ACT Government is committed to investing in increasing the number of leaders in the creative and cultural sectors.  

The Master of Creative Industries will equip you with a refined set of creative leadership skills, ensuring you stand out and have the right skills to position yourself for success. Upon graduation, you’ll be ready to take on a broad range of management and executive level roles across the creative and cultural sectors.

Career outlook

Meet your course convener

Denise Thwaites

Lecturer

Denise Thwaites was awarded her PhD in 2014 and has since worked in a variety of roles across the contemporary arts sector, including positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery and Australia Council for the Arts. Denise has worked at both internationally and locally engaged scales, leading curatorial projects for programs such as MoneyLab (Amsterdam), This Is Not Art Festival (Newcastle), New Beginnings Refugee Culture and Arts Festival (Sydney), Next Wave Festival (Melbourne) and the ACT Government’s Creative Recovery and Resilience Program (Canberra).

Over the past twelve years, Denise has designed, developed and taught innovative courses at several Australian higher education institutions and looks forward to connecting with new students through the Master of Creative Industries, supporting them to define a unique pathway to success in the contemporary creative and cultural sector.

What you will learn

Choose to specialise or mix and match units to suit you and then complete either a work integrated learning or research unit (total of 16 units required). 

Creative Industries

Creative Industries

Fine-tune your skills in problem-solving, critical thinking and negotiation and build the professional judgement needed to navigate the creative and cultural sectors with ease.

Core units

  • Impact and Enterprise (11155)
  • Creativity and Digital Engagement (11862)
  • Indigeneity and the Creative Sector (11863)

Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing

Gain the skills and confidence needed to implement effective, data-driven digital strategies across a variety of sectors.

Core units

  • Digital Advertising Practices (11866)
  • Social Media Marketing (11867)
  • Digital Advertising & Marketing Principles (11868)

Unit of choice

  • Consumer and Buyer Behaviour (11420)
  • Creative Decision Making (11500)
  • Strategy, Innovation and Change (11506)
  • Audience, Data and Media Convergence (11634)

Creative Leadership

Creative Leadership

Gain the confidence and skills needed to lead creative teams, projects and processes.

Core units

  • Strategy, Innovation and Change (11506)
  • Audience, Data and Media Convergence (11634)
  • Art, Technology and Business (11864)
  • Leadership in the Creative Industries (11865)

design

Design

Design

Learn how to apply designing-thinking to solve business problems and master the ability to articulate your vision, instruct designers and lead with confidence.

Core units

  • Visual Communication for Creative Businesses (11869)
  • UX Design (11870)
  • Digital and Tangible Design (11871)

Unit of choice

  • Entrepreneurship (9691)
  • Creative Decision Making (11500)
  • Leadership in the Creative Industries (11865)

Heritage Materials Conservation

Heritage Materials Conservation

Develop a strong theoretical, ethical and practical understanding of heritage materials and gain skills in conservation through hands-on study.

Core units

  • Heritage Materials and Their Environments (11160)
  • The Cultural Significance of Patina (11161)
  • Heritage Materials – Structure and Integrity (11162)
  • Heritage Materials – Aesthetics and Stability (11163)
Creative Business

Creative Business

Creative Business

Gain the foundational business skills needed to turn your creative ideas into commercial reality and learn what it takes to start, build and finance a creative business.

Core units

  • Entrepreneurship (9691)
  • Innovation Toolbox (11077)
  • Finance for Creative Businesses (11498)
  • Creative Decision Making (11500)

Work Integrated Learning

Work Integrated Learning

  • Professional Practice (Industry and Creative Projects) (11872)
  • Professional Practice (Internship A) (11873)
  • Professional Practice (Internship B) (11874)

Research Project

Research Project

Research Project

  • Arts and Humanities Research (9682)
  • Creative Practice Research (9683)
  • Social Research Design (9684)
  • Master of Arts Thesis / Professional or Creative Project (11164)

Upcoming intakes

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February 2023 intake



July 2023 intake


Entry requirements

To be eligible for the Master of Creative Industries, applicants must:

  • Have a bachelor’s degree in any field as approved by the University
  • Meet our English Language Requirements (overall IELTS Academic score (or equivalent) of 6.5 (non-standard English language requirements)).
  • Recognition of prior learning and experience available. 

COURSE COST

$3,125 per unit (Domestic students)
$4312.50 per unit (International students)

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Fee help

You may be eligible to defer payment of your tuition fees via the Commonwealth Government’s FEE-HELP loan scheme.

Visit FEE-HELP for lots of useful information about eligibility, how to apply and pay. You can apply for FEE-HELP once you have enrolled in a course.

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