One of the most satisfying things about teaching at UOW, is to see our students achieve things that they never imagined they would be doing. When our students begin their foundation year, they're very enthusiastic and you can see their creativity and critical thinking really developing. The best thing about creative arts, is that it has the flexibility to cater to you. It's really up to us, we get to create our own piece or composition, that at the end of the degree can all come together, to create a portfolio, for us as artists.
We set up real-world scenarios, as much as possible we emulate an industry based practice. So we're teaching people not only had to be thinkers, and conceptualises but also practitioners in a very real industry world.
All the teaching staff and academics are experts in the areas that they're teaching. For example in visual arts all staff teaching are practising artists. We have musicians and composers, we have theatre play writers, we have actors. So students studying here are really studying with practitioners, people who are experts in their field.
Every student that comes here can engage with technology to the degree where they can make their own album, get that out to the world in a professional way, that in no way is lesser than anything that they would do at any commercial facility.
I think it's really fantastic to see our students develop really close working relationships, these relationships continue beyond University where they continue to make music together.
Through studying, I've met people who have helped me grow and done some exhibitions together, done some collaborative graphic design projects, that have eventuated into a real briefs, with real clients.
The students that we turn out here I think are really well equipped, to begin that journey into the creative industries.
There is a real investment both from students and the teaching faculty in this idea of building a community [Music]
