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Become a future innovator and leader
Set yourself for success in the dynamic contemporary digital media industry. This degree’s multidisciplinary approach will develop your technical competency and digital creativity through the study of design methods, electronic audio, visual media, computation, and critical thinking. Combine these skills to produce imaginative concepts, functioning prototypes, digital audio-visual artefacts and assets, and interaction designs for everyday life. Study at the Queensland College of Art’s South Bank campus, in the heart of Brisbane’s cultural precinct, or at the thriving arts and technology community at the Gold Coast campus.
Study creative and interactive media at Griffith
Develop technological prowess, an aesthetic focus, and the ability to embrace emerging career opportunities in creative media technologies. Award majors exist in digital arts and design and media applications.
Digital Arts and Design Award Major
Learn to design interactive experiences ranging from audio-visual installations to experimental mobile apps and websites. Gain a solid grounding in diverse digital media including 2D and 3D graphics, sound, and video. Apply your skills across physical computing, mobile systems, wearable technology, new media arts and games. You’ll be empowered to design and produce imaginative concepts, innovative prototypes, and complete artworks and designs to industry standard.
Media Applications Award Major
Learn essential skills to design, develop and program computer games, web and mobile applications. This major introduces you to various programming languages and their appropriate use, including team programming concepts, development environments, scripting techniques, software tools, life-cycle processes, testing and deployment. You’ll be given a systematic introduction to the development of dynamic, community-based applications. You’ll learn how to integrate web-coding, server-side scripting languages, database systems and native mobile applications.
Choose to do a double major, or undertake one award major plus a complementary specialisation in one of the following areas:
- Graphic and communication design
- Interior design and environments
- Product and 3D design
- Games design
- Animation
- Music technology
- Data science and artificial intelligence
- Information systems
- Computer networks and security
- Software engineering
- Creative entrepreneurship
Julian Cheney
Queensland College of Art graduate
Digital illustrator and designer Julian Cheney fuses modern design aesthetics with diverse sound, visual and interactive elements. Using digital media such as interactive media, film, animation and visual art, the well-travelled Queensland College of Art graduate explores the narratives of identity, self-exploration and the outer and inner realities of existentialism. Julian recently presented a solo art exhibition in Sydney and is currently working on developing an interactive children's book and working towards publishing his illustrative work in collaboration with a fictional story.
Study options
| Degrees | Campus | OP rank |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelor of Creative and Interactive Media | Gold Coast Nathan South Bank |
15 |
| Graduate Certificate in Interactive Media | South Bank | |
| Master of Interactive Media | South Bank |
It is important to check the degree requirements including placement requirements, before you apply.
Career outcomes
You’ll graduate with the creative digital media skills that the world’s leading design and technology employers demand
You’ll be well-placed to meet the need for creators and thinkers, uniquely skilled in the arts, design and code, who can reimagine and reconfigure the way we engage with the world. Leading edge design and technology companies, and arts institutions, are chasing practitioners with high level creative and digital media skills. Future careers are waiting in commercial enterprises, the fine arts sector and government, and independent start-ups. Career outcomes include:
- Creative technologist
- Interactive media developer
- Creative director
- Web design and development
- App design and development
- Digital content manager
- Digital media artist
- Experience designer
- Computer game programming
- Interface design
- Multimedia production
- eLearning design
- Human-computer interaction
- Digital innovation
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Life at Griffith
You can gain more than just a degree at Griffith. With plenty of opportunities to balance life and study, you can make memories and mates to last a lifetime.
August 21, 2017
Griffith named top creative arts school in Australia
Read more about Griffith named top creative arts school in Australia
Key dates
Monday 3 July — Saturday 14 October
Trimester 2
Our second trimester starts on Monday 3 July. Trimester 2 examinations run from Saturday 30 September to Saturday 14 October.
Monday 18 September — Friday 29 September
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Book a 30 minute, personalised appointment with a member of our student recruitment team, to help find the right degree for you and get personalised advice about your study options. You can also find out about scholarships and discover pathways to university. Find out more.
Tuesday 26 September — Wednesday 27 September
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Monday 30 October — Saturday 17 February
Trimester 3
Our third trimester starts on Monday 30 October. Trimester 3 examinations run from Saturday 10 to Saturday 17 February 2018.
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Wednesday 15 November
Postgraduate Information Evening - South Bank
Join Griffith University for a postgraduate information evening and talk to our staff and students about how a postgraduate degree can help you achieve your career goals.
Wednesday 22 November
Postgraduate Information Evening - Gold Coast
Join Griffith University for a postgraduate information evening and talk to our staff and students about how a postgraduate degree can help you achieve your career goals.
Saturday 16 December — Friday 22 December
Know Your Options
Chat online with our expert study advisers after you have received your entry score, to discuss your study options. Find out about pathways, entry requirements and program options, plus what you can do if your score was higher or lower than expected.