Vision Statement

Dean: Professor Amanda Lawson

The Bachelor of Creative Arts is the major degree offered by FCA.  It has continued over some 25 years to provide strong creative, practice-based training across key creative disciplines, in conjunction with a distinctive theoretical component which is linked to contemporary arts practice, as well as a unique set of opportunities for double degree or minor studies in other disciplines.

The BCA has recently had a major review and is being re-launched with a new focus in 2011 – a focus on multidisciplinary intersections such technological and theoretical skills, project management capabilities, professional links and fostering deeper creative exploration.

We offer three other degree programs, each with a specific vocational focus which meet market demand in new or high growth professional areas:
Bachelor of Journalism
Bachelor of Digital Media (in partnership with TAFE Illawarra – this degree is a national first)
Bachelor of Performance (the only practice-based degree of its kind in the state outside exclusive NIDA, and one of a handful across the country)

We also offer extensive partnerships across Faculties in the program areas of:
Digital Media
Journalism
particularly with Arts - the BCMS - and Informatics.

As with the BCA, our degrees and programs produces graduates who may pursue highly directed, individual creative careers or who may chose to work in and across the rapidly growing sector of the creative industries.  All our graduates enjoy a practical, experiential educational environment in addition to a thorough grounding in relevant and portable critical and analytical skills.

It has become increasingly apparent that the Faculty of Creative Arts is an outstanding – indeed unique - national and international model of co-location of creative and professional disciplines that is rendering it a force within current creative education with great capacity to attract students from across the state as well as beyond. 

Our claims to distinction in creative training are supported by our outstanding staff of practitioners across creative disciplines.  We contribute at influential national policy levels in the arts and research sectors and significant numbers of our team work professionally at the highest levels in their art forms.  This close-knit team reflects into the student experience:  our students form strong cohorts within their disciplines and increasingly are being provided with opportunities for professional and cross-disciplinary experiences within their degrees.