Bachelor of Digital Creative Industries

Overview

Overview

Turn your passion for art, design and digital creativity into a degree that gives your the expertise to produce compelling digital content for diverse audiences and industries.

Designed in partnership with Curtin's industry partners, this course

that offers you a choice of majors You can specialise in areas such as animation and visual effects, game design or immersive user experiences, preparing you for high-demand roles in emerging digital fields. Over three years, you’ll develop your creative ability, apply theory to practical, industry-focused projects, and complete a capstone unit in your final year, collaborating on real-world briefs with creative practitioners from related fields.

Customise your degree

You can tailor your degree to your creative passions and career goals. Choose either a single major with complementary specialisations or electives, or a double major that will meet a broader range of digital creative industry needs.

Option A: Single major (with complementary specialisations)

Choose the major that interests you most:

• Animation, Visual Effects and Virtual Production
• Game Design and Art
• Immersive User Experience Design

Now, add a specialisation to extend your expertise:

• Game Design and Development Specialisation
• Mixed Reality Experience Design Specialisation
• Virtual Production Specialisation

Alternatively, you can broaden your expertise with specialisations or electives from other Curtin disciplines. 

See the full list of specialisations

Learn more about electives

Option B: Double major

A double major will deepen your expertise across two areas that our industry partners recommend. Choose from:

• Animation, Visual Effects and Virtual Production + Immersive User Experience Design
• Animation, Visual Effects and Virtual Production + Game Design and Art
• Game Design and Art + Immersive User Experience Design

How this course will make you industry ready

In your final year, you’ll focus on practical, work-integrated learning experiences and collaborations between research and industry. You’ll have the chance to tackle real-world problems and potentially work on cross-disciplinary projects that mimic the experience of working in a studio.

What you'll learn

• apply discipline knowledge to critically review, analyse, consolidate and contribute to evidence-based practice in their chosen digital creative discipline
• demonstrate cognitive and technical skills in both a broad understanding of creative digital sectors and with depth in at least one discipline
• use and discern between a range of creative technologies and media platforms in the production of creative digital artefacts
• demonstrate effective visual, spoken, written and technical communication appropriate to their chosen discipline and apply effective self-directed learning skills
• demonstrate personal awareness of specific digital creative practices and sustain an engagement with contemporary practices, technologies in the creative industries
• develop a predictive overview of future trends that will influence one’s creative identity and digital creative practices relevant to the community of practice
• recognise the importance of social, ethical and cultural diversity and consider local and international perspectives in creative activities, studio practice and production
• demonstrate how intercultural awareness and understanding impacts on personal identity as a creative practitioner and professional skills and on the ability to lead
• work independently and collaboratively on digital creative projects and respond to project demands