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QUT (Queensland University of Technology)

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Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Communication (Entertainment Industries)

  • Bachelor

Combine business and entertainment industries to enhance local and global career opportunities in roles such as managing major entertainment projects.

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor
Duration
4 years full-time
Course Code
409522, 096579G
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Feb, Jul
ATAR
70

About this course

Highlights
  • Develop business skills and be able to think creatively and critically, communicate professionally, make ethical business decisions and work in a global context.
  • Get equipped with the critical thinking skills and professional know-how to successfully navigate the dynamic creative practices, industrial structures, and legal mechanisms in such global industries as film, television, music, games and sports.
  • Benefit from an original and engaging curriculum design that includes fully integrated work experiences, practical, hands-on projects, global study excursions and cutting-edge research.
  • Business acumen gained from your double degree will enhance your career opportunities in local and global entertainment industries. Options include managing specific entertainment projects or investigating the broader patterns of international entertainment.
Highlights
  • Develop business skills and be able to think creatively and critically, communicate professionally, make ethical business decisions and work in a global context.
  • Get equipped with the critical thinking skills and professional know-how to successfully navigate the dynamic creative practices, industrial structures, and legal mechanisms in such global industries as film, television, music, games and sports.
  • Benefit from an original and engaging curriculum design that includes fully integrated work experiences, practical, hands-on projects, global study excursions and cutting-edge research.
  • Business acumen gained from your double degree will enhance your career opportunities in local and global entertainment industries. Options include managing specific entertainment projects or investigating the broader patterns of international entertainment.

Entry requirements

Year 12 early offer scheme

If you're a current Queensland Year 12 student you may be eligible to receive an offer for this course on the last day of Queensland Year 12 before receiving your ATAR or selection rank.

Find out more about the QUT Year 12 Early Offer Scheme
Prerequisites

Satisfactory completion of Year 12 in an Australian school system or equivalent.

Study locations

Kelvin Grove

Gardens Point

What you will learn

Bachelor of Business

Our business degree equips you to confidently enter the modern business world. It combines key business research and contemporary business best practice and sets demanding standards to create your future career options.

Develop business skills and be able to think creatively and critically communicate professionally make ethical business decisions and work in a global context.

Graduate with deep knowledge and experience in your chosen major equipping you as a professional in your chosen discipline. You can study accounting advertising economics finance human resource management international business management marketing or public relations.

Business acumen gained from your double degree will enhance your career opportunities in local and global entertainment industries. Options include managing specific entertainment projects or investigating the broader patterns of international entertainment.

Bachelor of Communication (Entertainment Industries)

This course equips you with the critical thinking skills and professional know-how to successfully navigate the dynamic creative practices industrial structures and legal mechanisms in such global industries as film television music games and sports among others.

Entertainment industries are constantly changing especially in the digital era. This course equips you with the critical thinking skills and professional know-how to successfully navigate the dynamic creative practices industrial structures and legal mechanisms in such global industries as film television music games and sports among others. By graduation you will learn how to research implement and critically assess a range of strategic activities from identifying talent developing pitches and negotiating contracts to engaging culturally diverse audiences and evaluating the impact of new technologies.

This course is one of the first and only courses of its kind. It was developed in close collaboration with key entertainment industry professionals and draws heavily from the research of top scholars in the School of Communication including the Digital Media Research Centre.

You will interact throughout the course with industry leaders and the very best teachers in the field. You also will benefit from an original and engaging curriculum design that includes fully integrated work experiences practical hands-on projects global study excursions and cutting-edge research.

Our graduates work as producers researchers publishers agents and promoters in diverse areas such as film and television large-scale performances radio programming cultural and games productions theme parks and more. You will be qualified for roles in organisations that produce entertainment or become self-employed in generating new entrepreneurial forms of entertainment for the future.

Career pathways

Careers and outcomes

Business acumen will enhance your career opportunities in local and global entertainment industries. Career options include managing specific entertainment projects or investigating the broader patterns of international entertainment.

Possible careers
  • Accountant
  • Advertising professional
  • Economist
  • Entertainment director
  • Entertainment entrepreneur
  • Entertainment manager
  • Financial advisor/analyst
  • Human resource manager
  • International business specialist
  • Manager
  • Marketing officer/manager
  • Producer
  • Promoter
  • Public relations officer/consultant

Course structure

In order to complete this course you must complete a total of 384 credit points made up of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Business and 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Communication (Entertainment Industries). You will undertake the two components of the double degree concurrently.

Business component

You must complete:

  • business core units (96 credit points)
  • a business major (96 credit points) choosing from:
    • accounting
    • advertising
    • economics
    • finance
    • human resource management
    • international business
    • management
    • marketing
    • public relations.

Accounting students will undertake 6 specified business core units and 10 accounting major core units in order to meet professional recognition requirements.

Communication component

You will complete:

  • four core units (48 credit points)
  • a communication major (144 credit points) in entertainment industries.
Study overseas

Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners. Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in either degree area depending on how they match with your QUT course.

In order to complete this course you must complete a total of 384 credit points made up of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Business and 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Communication (Entertainment Industries). You will undertake the two components of the double degree concurrently.

Business component

You must complete:

  • business core units (96 credit points)
  • a business major (96 credit points) choosing from:
    • accounting
    • advertising
    • economics
    • finance
    • human resource management
    • international business
    • management
    • marketing
    • public relations.

Accounting students will undertake 6 specified business core units and 10 accounting major core units in order to meet professional recognition requirements.

Communication component

You will complete:

  • four core units (48 credit points)
  • a communication major (144 credit points) in entertainment industries.
Study overseas

Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners. Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in either degree area depending on how they match with your QUT course.