Bachelor of New Media Arts

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Minimum English Language Proficiency Requirements

Students of non-English speaking backgrounds must have an adequate English language capacity assessed under the Australian International English Language Testing System (IELTS). The IELTS score required for admission to this course can be found in Schedule II of the JCU Admissions policy.

Course learning outcomes

JCU graduates are committed to lifelong learning, intellectual development, and to the display of exemplary personal, professional and ethical standards. They have a sense of their place in the tropics and are charged with professional, community, and environmental responsibility. JCU graduates appreciate the need to embrace and be acquainted with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia. They are committed to reconciliation, diversity and sustainability. They exhibit a willingness to lead and to contribute to the intellectual, environmental, cultural, economic and social challenges of regional, national, and international communities of the tropics.

In the context of a JCU graduate on successful completion of the Bachelor of New Media Arts graduates will possess:

Knowledge

• Appraise the global traditions, practices and theories informing creative arts practice;

• Evaluate theoretical and conceptual insights into media arts practice;

• Compare direct experiences of the nature of the global creative industries sector including insights into career management strategies for artists;

• Demonstrate an awareness of indigenous perspectives.

Skills

• Demonstrate a high level of digital technology based expertise in at least one discipline area of creative practice;

• Apply specialist professional knowledge of at least two discipline areas of creative practice;

• Respond to elements of urban and natural tropical environments;

• Employ strong problem solving, research, critical thinking and analytical skills including numeracy where required for contemporary arts practice.

Application

• Practice collaborative enterprise within creative communities emerging within the knowledge economy;

• Demonstrate advanced oral, written and networked communication skills suitable for the contemporary information and communication technologies sector;

• Illustrate an awareness of intellectual curiosity, ethical behaviour and sustainable practice in the arts.

Credit points in major

Single only

Townsville

Maximum time to complete

8 years

Course includes mandatory professional placement(s)

No

Accreditation requirements

Nil

Supplementary exam for final subject

A candidate who has failed a single subject towards the award in their final teaching period and who gained 40% or more of the marks for that subject may be granted a supplementary examination in that subject. However if that subject is required for accreditation, then the criteria specified by that accreditation will apply.

Maximum allowed

48 credit points

Expiry

Advanced standing gained for any subject shall be cancelled 13 years after the date of the examination upon which the advanced standing is based if, by then, the candidate has not completed the course.

Exit with lesser award

Candidates who exit the course prior to completion, and have completed 24 credit points of appropriate subjects, may be eligible to receive the award of Diploma of Creative Arts.

Eligibility

Completion of a pass degree in the Creative Arts with a GPA of 5.0 or higher: or

Other qualifications recognised by the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Law, Business and the Creative Arts as equivalent to the above.

Submit proposal to Honours coordinator by November 30 of the year preceding the study.