Course Details

Qualification

Bachelor Degree

Study Load

Part Time

Study Mode

In Class

Course Location

Australian Capital Territory

Applications Close

Feb 8, 2026

Course Starts

Feb 16, 2026

Duration

3.0 years

University of Canberra

Bachelor of Creative Industries (Acting and Performance)

Pursue your dreams of acting and performance

Discover the craft of acting and performance with a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Acting and Performance). Thanks to our partnership with TAFE Queensland, you’ll be prepared with the skills, knowledge, and outlook to build a sustainable career in the Performing Arts industry. The course offers lively, detailed, and focused training in acting, voice and body skills; regular performance opportunities to play to live audiences; intense development of the acting student’s creative voice as an independent performance maker. Plays, readings, online resources, and academic materials are designed to inspire, challenge and motivate you.

Complete your degree at our TAFE Queensland Brisbane campus where you’ll build the foundations of your career and upon graduation, you’ll be ready to jump into a career, anywhere you choose.

Study a Bachelor of Acting and Performance at UC and you will:

  • Develop a range of highly advanced practical skills and specialised knowledge.
  • Gain lively, detailed and focused training in acting, voice and body skills and gives students regular performance opportunities to perform for live audiences.
  • Unleash your creative voice as an independent performance maker and develop as an actor and performer who thinks for themselves and respects their own ideas and ideals.
  • Gain exposure to plays, readings, online resources and academic materials that have been designed to inspire, challenge and motivate the training actor.

The program is tailored for those students who want to engage in a professional career as a stage or film actor, performing artist or performance maker.

Work Integrated Learning

You’ll be encouraged and supported to find relative work placements, enabling you to experience the reality of working within the industry or a particular company, and the opportunity to build useful networks for a future career.