Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours)
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2025 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) |
| Deakin course code | A450 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Campus | Offered at Burwood (Melbourne) |
| Online | No |
| Duration | 1 year full-time or part-time equivalent |
| Course Map - enrolment planning tool | The course map for new students commencing from Trimester 1 2025 will be available soon. Course maps for commencement in previous years are available on the Course Maps webpage or please contact a Student Adviser in Student Central. |
| CRICOS course code | 083979J Burwood (Melbourne), Waterfront (Geelong) |
| Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition | The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 8 |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Career opportunities
- Participation requirements
- Articulated courses
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Course structure
- Research and research-related study
- Fees and charges
Course overview
Explore advanced creative projects and research through a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours). Honours is a year of specialised study that allows you to combine the theory and practical skills gained throughout your undergraduate degree. While undertaking an individual creative project, you will be supported in your development as an independent practitioner as you build your skills, critical engagement and depth of knowledge in your chosen area of study.
It is an opportunity to expand your knowledge in a field you are passionate about and to develop invaluable research and life skills that will stay with you throughout your career.
Do you want to find your creative practice in the field and critically engage with the work of your contemporaries?
With a strong interdisciplinary focus, this course enables students from all creative arts disciplines – dance, drama, photography, design, and visual arts – to learn from each other and develop their creative arts practice and scholarly research skills.
You will form ongoing relationships with practitioners and peers in related creative areas through critical feedback with industry connections and research experts from government-run and community arts organisations.
Whether you choose to work in industry as an individual practitioner, or within a creative team, this honours program will help you develop as a critically engaged thinker and highly skilled practitioner and researcher.
After graduating, you can further your studies in research or professional practice by applying for direct entry into the second year of the Master of Creative Arts by coursework, a Master of Arts by Research, or you could pursue a PhD.
Career opportunities
The Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) supports your development as a creative arts practitioner and builds your research skills. You will graduate as a specialist in your field of study with the transferable soft skills to thrive in industry – including critical and creative thinking, the ability to effectively communicate and to work both autonomously and collaboratively. The degree provides a pathway for further learning and for practice within creative arts and cultural industries.
You will graduate ready to adapt to changing career opportunities relevant to your specialisation in:
- dance
- design
- drama
- photography
- visual arts.
For more information go to DeakinTALENT.
Participation requirements
Reasonable adjustments to participation and other course requirements will be made for students with a disability. More information available at Disability support services.
Articulated courses
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities | Identify and apply reflective creative practice research within a creative arts context that incorporates non-traditional research and relevant traditional research that critically engages with histories, traditions and contemporary ideas within art and performance and situates the creative practice in the relevant field. |
| Communication | Articulate the relationship between practical creative processes and discipline specific and interdisciplinary ideas to inform discussions of creative practice, decision-making processes and relevant contemporary ideas in art and performance. |
| Digital literacy | Critically integrate digital strategies in creative practice inquiry and engage with and apply digital technologies that actualise an emerging professional identity. |
| Critical thinking | Investigate, describe and synthesise ideas within art and performance discourse in order to establish the relationship of a selection of ideas focused through a creative arts project. |
| Problem solving | Identify, evaluate and select the methods, techniques and processes to best investigate proposed creative arts project; and engage with discovery and ambiguity characteristic of creative practice. |
| Self-management | Communicate with supervisors, technical staff, and collaborators and develop a responsive approach to critical feedback in the context of practice-led research. |
| Teamwork | Contribute to the critical culture of creative practice through peer feedback, group critique and participation in industry standard forums *This Course Learning Outcome is not explicitly assessed |
| Global citizenship | Establish ethical approaches that recognise the value of art and performance in diverse communities and cultures and transfer creative practice outcomes into real world contexts. |
Approved at Faculty Board September 2019
Course rules
To complete the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) students must pass 8 credit points and meet the following course rules to be eligible to graduate:
- DAI001 Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in their first study period
- 8 credit points of core units
Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements. See the enrolment codes and terminology to help make sense of the University’s vocabulary.
Course structure
Units
| ACA401 | Creative Studio A (2 credit points) |
| ACA491 | Creative Research Project A |
| ACA492 | Writing the Exegesis: Theory and Context |
| ACA493 | Creative Research Project B |
| ACA410 | Contemporary Debates in the Creative Arts |
| ACA411 | Creative Research Methods |
| ACA412 | Transgressive Acts in Cinema, Art, Performance |
Course duration
Course duration may be affected by delays in completing course requirements, such as failing of units or accessing or completing placements.
Further information
Student Central can help you with course planning, choosing the right units and explaining course rules and requirements.
- Contact Student Central
Research and research-related study
Independent research components are embedded across a number of units.
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, and their study discipline or your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.