Turn your love of Art into your career with a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Visual Arts). Thanks to our partnership with TAFE Queensland, you’ll learn traditional skills and techniques to ground your understanding of contemporary culture historically and theoretically.
Explore contemporary arts interfaces with digital technologies and expand into cross media, multi-disciplinary visual arts practice. You’ll look at different genres of arts practice, art communities, curating, design/commercial opportunities, and contemporary visual identities. All of this combined will ensure you graduate job-ready with the connections to dive right into the Arts industry.
Complete your degree at our TAFE Queensland Brisbane campus where you'll build the foundations of your career and upon graduation, you'll be ready to jump into a career, anywhere you choose.
Study a Bachelor of Visual Arts at UC and you will:
Develop a broad and coherent range of specialist knowledge and practical skills.
Gain hands-on skills and techniques to build your abilities and understanding of contemporary art and culture.
Explore contemporary arts and expand into cross media, and multi-disciplinary visual arts practices.
Graduates can develop their careers in a wide range of art, design, and culturally related fields including gallery exhibitions, arts education, arts administration, curating, exhibition, display design, public art and more.
Work Integrated Learning
You’ll be encouraged and supported to find relative work placements, enabling you to experience the reality of working within the industry or a particular company, and the opportunity to build useful networks for a future career.
Career opportunities
Arts Professional
Art Curator
Photographer
Illustrator
Graphic Designer
Product Designer
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution
7 July 2024
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Start date
29 July 2024
UC in TAFE Queensland Brisbane (South Bank)
66 Ernest Street,
SOUTH BRISBANE,
Queensland,
4101, BRISBANE, Australia
For international students studying an Australian Year 12 qualification, your selection rank is your ATAR plus any adjustment factors you may be eligible for.
If you’re an international student who has not completed an Australian Year 12, we also recognise a range of other international qualifications for direct entry. These include the NCEA Level 3, the International Baccalaureate (IB) and GCE A Levels, plus other country-specific qualifications.
English language requirements
Academic IELTS of 6.0 or equivalent, with no band score below 6.0; TOEFL iBT: Overall score of 60 with: R: 13; L: 12; S: 18; W: 21; Pearson Test of Academic English: 50 with no skill score below 50; Cambridge English Scale: 169 with no sub-score below 169: Occupational English Test: No grade lower than 'C' in any of the sub-tests.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
The University of Canberra has some of the highest graduate employment rates in Australia combined with above average starting salaries.