Master of Creative Industries
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2025
TUITION FEES
AUD 12,500 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for international students | $10.600 for domestic students
Introduction
JMC’s postgraduate degrees in creative industries deliver a critical understanding of the creative industries.
Focused on real-world production standards, JMC's postgraduate degrees in creative industries will give you the freedom to explore, create, and apply your skills while developing your own concept into commercial reality. It will build your creative network, strengthen your critical thinking, and extend your practice.
JMC’s degrees in creative industries integrate practical, creative, and entrepreneurial units, designed to develop your creative skills to industry expectations and standards.
Why Study your Masters at JMC?
- Hand-picked mentors for your specialization.,
- Accommodating study hours - classes are based outside of traditional work hours.
- Curriculum balanced between creative, exploration, entrepreneurialism and commercial application
Course Duration
Mindful of your work and general life commitments, the Masters of Creative Industries is available over 4 semesters. Study hours are accommodating and based outside of traditional work hours. For those who are unable to complete the Master's, a Graduate Diploma is an available exit point after the successful completion of 2 semesters, and for domestic students only, a Graduate Certificate after the successful completion of 1 semester.
International students may complete the program in 2 years. The program must be completed full-time in order to satisfy student visa conditions.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
$3,000 grant
To help our master’s students take their work to the next level, we have now introduced the MCI grant, which gives our master’s students the opportunity to apply for a grant of up to $3,000 to use towards the creation or marketing of their project!
For more information about scholarships, please visit the institute website.
Curriculum
Semester 1
- Creativity and Creative Industries - MCI101
- Innovative Creativity - MCI103
- Collaborating on a Creative Project - MCI102
Semester 2
- Scoping the Project - MCI201
- Producing Your Creative Project - MCI203
- Interrogating Creative Intent - MCI202
Semester 3 + 4
- Developing the Project - MCI301
- The Creative Business - MCI303
- Project Documentation - MCI402
- Researching Your Field of Practice - MCI302
- Market Ready - MCI401
- Impact - MCI403
Program Outcome
Learning Outcomes
When you graduate, you will have an innate knowledge of the creative industries sector, and a highly applicable skill set, including but not limited to:
- In-depth knowledge of the creative industries, specifically within your field of specialisation.
- The ability to successfully realise value in the creative economy.
- The principles of good research and the gathering and analysis of reliable data.
- Familiarity with the innovators, innovations and recent developments within and from the creative industries, specifically in your field of specialisation.
- The key principles of project design and management, as well as recent developments in business models within the sector.
- Technical and communication skills to analyse and evaluate the impact of technological change on the relationship between creativity and society, and, where possible, the ability to implement those changes in the design of your own project.
- Cognitive, creative and technical skills to investigate, critically analyse and synthesise trends in consumer tastes and consumption, technical contemporary best practices and your own production project.
- The cognitive, technical and creative skills to evaluate at an abstract level what the final project might look like – based on concept development demos and extrapolation from those demos.
- An understanding of the business management principles required to successfully conduct your business interest within the creative industries, and specifically within your field of specialisation.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Related Careers
- Recording Artist
- Music Producer
- Producer
- Game Designer
- 3D or 2D Animator
- Composer
- Actor
- Artist Manager