Program Overview

Get ready to ignite your passions for drama and performance with a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Drama and Performance). Thanks to our partnership with TAFE Queensland you’ll gain the knowledge and experience to initiate and produce creative performances, projects, and events to activate and empower communities. You will study the role of the arts facilitators, educators, producers, and project managers in creating, leading, and facilitating projects for positive social change and real-world impact.

Also suitable for beginners, emerging and established performing artists who want to continue exploring their independent practices, the Bachelor of Creative Industries (Drama and Performance) will engage you in performance theory, professional practice, and develop your entrepreneurial skills.

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 Drama and Performance at UC and you will:

• Engage and empower communities through the arts with this hands-on degree. 
• Develop the skills and knowledge required to initiate and produce creative performances, projects and events to activate and empower communities. 
• Study the role of the arts facilitator, educator, producer and project manager in creating, leading and facilitating projects for positive social change and real-world impact. 

The program is suitable for beginners and emerging and established performing artists who want to continue exploring their independent practices, engaging in performance theory, professional practice and entrepreneurial skills. 

Work Integrated Learning (WIL)
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.

Specialist Major: Drama and Performance
The Bachelor of Creative Industries (Drama and Performance) provides its graduates with the learning and experience to initiate and build creative performances, projects and events. The course is presented in an innovative partnership between TAFE Queensland and the University of Canberra. Graduates will be able to engage as arts facilitators, educators, producers and project managers in creating, leading and facilitating projects that are designed to have social, economic and cultural impacts on individuals, organisations and communities.

Graduates will be able to work across a variety of media and collaborate with performance makers, educational institutions and community organisations. As a graduate, you will learn to operate in varied organisational contexts, engaging in both non-profit and commercial activities. A range of elective units is on offer to expand the student's skills base and knowledge including study in Music, Visual Arts, Gaming, Fashion and Digital Design.