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Arts & Creative
Are you one of those with endlessly over?owing ideas and creative
expressions waiting to be unleashed into the world? Or you might be one of
those who just love to immerse themselves in colours, sketches, drawings
or anything artsy. If so, arts & creative might be what you are looking for.
Arts & Creative contains a brilliant range of course options in the
visual and performing arts, behind-the-scenes production and
technology ?elds as well such as multimedia, digital and graphic
design. It permits you to pursue the things that you really love
and explore and re?ne your creative talents.
The excitement and glamour of the visual and performing
arts prove to be appealing, especially among the young and
talented ones. After arts & creative industries were rebranded
as ‘creative industries’ in some institutions, there was a shift in
the pro?le of the ?eld. Arts are usually con?ned in museums
and galleries, inviting guests to view it. Now, there is the talk
of the ‘creative economy’ driving all types of business and
organisations. The increasing number of artists working in
corporations and studios is all thanks to the digital medium.
There is a signi?cant number of those quali?ed in the course
working outside specialist creative organisations.
It is a good idea to look for bachelor degrees in creative arts, visual
arts or ?ne arts that offer one of the many creative specialisations
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if you are determined to enter the arts industry. Behind-the-scene
courses and specialisations are also interesting, which include areas
such as arts management, costume design and sound production.
There are also arts courses that focus more on learning such as
art history. Technology-based arts specialisation in graphic design,
animation and computer-aided design will usually be found in
specialist degree courses.
You should be prepared if you are to apply for the course as
admission into some arts courses is highly competitive and those
involving performance or production will require auditions and/
or portfolios that display work and talents. Rather than going
through the tertiary admission centres, quite a number of
applications go directly to the institution.
When you have decided to be an animator, graphic designer,
photographer, opera singer or circus performer, where do you
go? Universities are one option. Although they have not always
been the traditional stage of visual and performing arts, there are
some specialist colleges of art or performing art that date back