Education (Secondary) / Creative Arts, Double Degree Bachelor / Bachelor

The new Bachelor of Creative Arts degree helps you to curate your own career, with its built-in flexibility providing you with multiple opportunities to extend and expand your creative practice. You will prepare for teaching with a specialist understanding for secondary school learners in two teaching and learning discipline areas. You will build your creative practice in one of creative arts majors as your first teaching area. You will then choose a second teaching area from either another creative arts subject (different from your first major) or choose from:

• english
• history
• geography
• mathematics.

If you choose the creative writing major, English becomes your first teaching area, therefore you will be required to choose a different subject for your second teaching area.

Bachelor of Education (Secondary)

As a secondary teacher, you can contribute to the development and further the growth of young adults, and share your passion for your chosen teaching areas.  You will be a qualified specialist in your teaching areas and learn to effectively teach subjects in the Australian Curriculum and other frameworks. You’ll be encouraged to create future-focused learning opportunities for your students and be equipped with positive strategies to manage your classrooms.

Bachelor of Creative Arts

You will complete common units in your creative arts degree, providing you with key creative and critical skills. You will develop your professional awareness preparing you for a range of creative roles and career pathways.   You will develop your craft by choosing one of the following majors:

• creative writing
• drama
• film and screen
• music
• visual arts.

You will also have the option to take either an advanced arts elective to expand your skills, or complete a work integrated learning unit that compliments your studies. 

QUT You

You will also complete QUT You units; an innovative new curriculum designed to prepare you for a rapidly changing future.

Real-world facilities

Based at QUT Kelvin Grove campus, you will develop your creativity and collaborate in two of Australia’s most technically advanced creative and learning facilities - the Creative Industries Precinct and Education Precinct. 

Creative Industries Precinct

In these spaces you will hone your creativity and entrepreneurial thinking, collaborating with fellow artists, designers, technologists and entrepreneurs, within highly sophisticated experimental zones. Housing purpose-built teaching and learning spaces, the Creative Industries Precinct includes: 

• visual art, film and TV, music and performance studios 
• digital fabrication workshop
• art galleries and exhibition spaces
• specialist computing labs for animation and virtual reality, music, and creative arts technologies
• motion capture facilities for animation, 
• state of the art virtual production studio
• post-production and editing suites.

Education Precinct

With high-quality academic, recreational and support facilities, you will find QUT campuses the perfect place to study. The Peter Coaldrake Education Precinct has five levels dedicated to world-class teaching. You can access imaginatively designed face-to-face and online interactive learning spaces, as well as study pods, community spaces, bike parking, and a garden atrium area.

Apply for a Commonwealth Teaching Scholarship

The Australian Government is supporting new students looking to start teaching, by providing $40,000 for full-time Bachelor of Education students or $20,000 for full-time Master of Teaching students. Applications for round 2 are now closed. Learn more about the scholarship