Bachelor of Creative Arts - Design and Technologies

Australian Catholic University

Allow yourself the freedom to explore your creative side while developing the skills and experience to prepare for an ever-changing jobs market. You don’t need an extensive portfolio to apply and you won’t go through a gruelling audition process, just be ready to explore a range of creative arts that foster flexible and innovative thinking, promote creative solutions and explore self-expression. Throughout your degree you’ll have the opportunity to exhibit your skills to the public through exhibitions, publications and performances, and take up overseas study opportunities and work within local communities. Then in your final year, you’ll complete a major creative project in your chosen art form, whether it’s communication, creative writing, design and technologies, drama, English, graphic design, media, music, or visual arts.Consider past, present and emerging technologies and investigate why people develop and use specific technologies and what their potential impacts are on individuals, communities and the environment.In this design and technologies major sequence you will develop skills in areas including textiles, food and industrial design using timber, metal, plastics, 3D printing and electronics and will work toward developing innovative, product design projects. You will have the opportunity to select from the following sequences: food technology, textiles and design, industrial (timber, metal, electronics, engineering and graphics and multimedia), generic design and technology.The major is also a pathway to becoming a secondary-school technologies teacher when combined with a tertiary teaching qualification.The Australian Government regards high-quality science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education as critically important for current and future productivity.

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