Sneak Peek: Exciting New Course Changes for Creative Production and Communication

Sneak Peek: Exciting New Course Changes for Creative Production and Communication for 2026 video transcript

Hi, I'm Matthew Dabner, a lecturer in the school of Communication in the Faculty of Design and Society at UTS.

In this video I'm going to tell you about some exciting changes that we've been working on to the courses that you will be able to enrol in from 2026 on.

The school that I work in at UTS is home to, among other things, our bachelor of communication, offering training in such fields as digital and social media, journalism, media, business, and the social and political sciences.

We are also the home of 3 well-known creative production courses in animation, media arts and music and sound design.

As of next year these courses will be getting a big refresh, starting with a name change as we introduce our new bachelor of creative production.

I'll tell you more about what this means in a second. But before I do, I should also mention that in the bachelor of communication 2 of their courses are also getting a name change

The bachelor of communication and writing and publishing is changing to creative writing, and our strategic communication course is being rebranded as public relations and advertising.

What can I say? We are engaged in teaching students about communications. So for us, words really do matter and mean something.

So why the changes? Well, I'm glad you asked

At UTS we regularly review and update our courses to ensure that we are offering the best education that we can.

It's our goal to ensure that what we teach our students is up to date and future focused.

We also want to make sure that we are maximizing your future employment opportunities by teaching you skills that you'll need when you enter the workforce. We want you to be prepared for the opportunities and challenges of tomorrow, such as new and emerging technologies like GENAI.

The world is changing fast. So we're changing with it.

By revising and rebranding our courses in media arts, animation and music and sound design. We are bringing together our creative production courses under one roof for the 1st time.

While the foundations of each of these degrees will remain largely the same. Offering these courses as a suite allows us to really enhance your education through a more integrated approach

In the new bachelor of creative production students will benefit from 3 new common core subjects that they will take together on topics tailored to their collective needs.

In this new structure, we will be offering our students the chance to take up to 2 sub majors from the other creative production disciplines or from our friends over in Comms.

If you're a media arts student, for example, you might wish to take a sub major in animation, but also one in media business. If you're in music and sound design. You might want a sub major in media arts.

Submajors are a chance to acquire another specialization and add a set of complementary skills to your degree.

Finally, the newly revised courses have been designed to maximise opportunities for our creative production students to work together on each other's projects, and this will culminate in the opportunity to work even more closely together in our specially designed creative production honours year.

We've also taken this opportunity to refresh and enhance and embed our already strong connections to industry, and make the most of our location in the heart of Sydney's creative precinct.

Of course, during this process we have not forgotten about our friends over in Comms.

Our highly successful and sought after Comms degrees have also undergone a vigorous review, resulting in a new and streamlined structure, a set of refreshed common core subjects and a strengthened commitment to their industry connections. Through our work, integrated learning, framework.

Creative production students will still get access to communications, subjects, and vice versa. And our students, no matter what course they're in, will get the benefit of our school's broad range of general electives taught by our world-class academics.

Have you already applied via UAC for one of our current courses for 2026?

If so, do not worry. You will not have to reapply. All of our recently reaccredited courses are being updated with UAC and our course codes remain the same

Updated course listings with new names and so forth, will be appearing on the UAC website shortly, and also, of course, on our own UTS website very soon.

In the meantime, to learn more about these exciting changes to our 2026 course offerings and the careers that they can lead to. There are 2 upcoming opportunities you should be aware of.

Firstly UTS is holding its annual open day on Saturday, August 30th

This is an opportunity to come to UTS to meet current students and the academics who are teaching these courses and ask them the questions that you may have

On open day. We will also have, course, info sessions, career panel sessions, where we will be talking about the upcoming changes in more detail.

Secondly, if you can't make it to open day because you don't live in Sydney, or you just want a little more information before you decide we will be hosting a sneak peek Webinar. On August 21.

You can register for open day, and for this special sneak peek Webinar, by visiting the UTS website.

For now, though, thank you for listening, we look forward to seeing you at UTS very soon.