Graduate Diploma in Creative Industries

Untap your creative leadership potential

Take your career a step further with a Graduate Diploma in Creative industries. Develop a strong understanding of the creative sector and learn to engage with audiences and markets in digital environments while building networks that will help shape your career.

Tailor your course to suit you with the option to choose from a broad range of units including marketing, user-experience, conservation, entrepreneurship, digital leadership, and finance for creative business. Get inspired by guest lecturers and course content from leaders working at the cutting edge of the creative and cultural industries.

For those working locally, you'll take advantage of a growing Creative Business sector and be ready to take advantage of the ACT government's ambitions to cultivate Canberra into Australia's arts capital.

Designed as the second step in the Creative Industries suite, the Graduate Diploma in Creative Industries can be added on to Graduate Certificate in Creative Industries or started from the beginning.

Study a Graduate Diploma in Creative Industries at UC and you will:

• Create, pitch, and develop strategies for creative projects and businesses.
• Anticipate, identify, and develop knowledge of key technological developments and their relevance to creative practice.
• Understand and manage change and uncertainty to confidently produce novel solutions.
• Engage respectfully with Indigenous approaches and knowledge to strengthen the creative sector.

Career opportunities

• Exhibition Producer
• Campaign Manager
• Executive in the GLAM sector
• Creative Director
• Publicist
• Communication Strategist
• Creative Entrepreneur
• Creative Agency Owner/Director
• Public Servant across Creative/Cultural Divisions

Course-specific information

Designed as part of a nested series, you can choose to continue studying a Master of Creative Industries simply by adding on additional units of study.

To be eligible for the Graduate Diploma of Creative Industries, applicants must have an undergraduate degree (AQF level 7) or equivalent as approved by the University Admissions.