悉尼科技大学

Focussing on both creative process and creative output across all forms of writing, this degree combines the core elements of writing technique with industry practice, critical thinking and collaborative learning. Taught by a team of experienced writers, publishers, scholars and industry professionals, this course will prepare the student for a wide range of careers and opportunities, including writing and editing, story developing and world building, teaching and researching, and other industries where writing and communicating lie at the heart of the role.

Taking a transdisciplinary approach, the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation utilises multiple perspectives from diverse fields, integrating a range of industry experiences, real-world projects and self-initiated proposals, equipping graduates to address the wicked problems, complex challenges and untapped opportunities in today's world.

Students gain practical experience and theoretical engagement in the discipline of contemporary creative writing. They apply their skills across a number of key genres and narrative forms. An emphasis on critical skills leading towards the development of independent writing projects prepares students for professional practice.

By focusing on the high-level conceptual thinking and problem-solving practices that lead to the development of innovative, creative and entrepreneurial outcomes, students of the combined degree also gain leading edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world, including dealing with critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship, and the ability to work on their own, across and between other disciplines. These creative intelligence competencies enable graduates to navigate across a rapidly accelerating world of change.

Course aims

The aims of this degree are:

• to produce graduates with a strong grounding in, and full knowledge of, contemporary writing practices and the writing industry,
• to provide students with the opportunity to explore a range of literary and commercial writing forms and genres, and
• to enable students to gain creative and critical skills, aptitudes and experiences that ensure they are ready for work and/or further study.

Course structure

Students must complete 240 credit points consisting of 24 credit points of communication core subjects, a 48-credit-point major and potential 48-credit-point second major (subject to application), 24 credit points of cross-disciplinary electives and a 96-credit-point creative intelligence and innovation core. Students who do not meet the requirements to study the second major complete elective subjects.

Careers

Graduates work as fiction and non-fiction writers in anthologies, magazines and newspapers, and for literary journals and online presses. They also work as screenwriters, story developers and communication professionals. Graduates also become teachers and researchers, many undertaking postgraduate study.

By being creative thinkers, initiators of new ideas, scenario planners, global strategists, open network designers or sustainable futures innovators within their chosen field of study, graduates maximise the potential of their chosen profession, making them highly sought after graduates with the ability to identify and develop solutions to some of the most complex issues that face their disciplines and society.