Career opportunities range from positions that involve policy, planning and analysis relating to the creative and cultural sectors, to public communications, media and arts organizations. Graduates will have the creative and critical skills needed to understand and adapt to the rapidly changing contemporary workplace.
CREATIVE PRACTICES
Active arts, live performances and related engagements with contemporary cultural forms in which people themselves are often the raw material for creative expression, together form a vital core of today's cultural sector, where expanding opportunities for work include arts organisations, community and formal education and numerous creative enterprises, in addition to the many broader opportunities that exist for people with the creative confidence, capabilities and communication skills that employers increasingly look for.
CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Converged digital technologies are powering new ways of working across a broad sector of today's creative economy. You will have the knowledge, and also the flexibility, to adapt to job opportunities that we cannot even conceive of yet, given the pace of change. Meanwhile, today's jobs include those in a growing range of enterprises and organisations where employers are looking for confidence in handling these technologies, from retailing to information services, from small media companies to large corporations, from government to the arts.
DESIGN MEDIA
Design-orientated ways of thinking are no longer the preserve of the full-time designer. The new creative technologies are putting design into the hands of more and more people. Employers are looking for people able to communicate both analytically and creatively with other practitioners of media communication in commerce, education, government and the arts.
MĀORI MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
The era of globally successful indigenous media is dawning. As the new creative technologies open up previously closed communications marketplaces to new voices, the practitioners of indigenous media and communication are linking up all over the world to assert themselves. You have an opportunity to be part of this. From grassroots to national level, from arts organisations to commercial broadcasters, the opportunities for work are rapidly expanding with employers looking for those who have the right knowledge and skills.
SCREEN AND MEDIA STUDIES
The media, big and small, have become defining features of contemporary life. From online newspapers to satellite news channels, from video in small businesses to films on the big screen, from computer games to do-it-yourself media on internet social networking services, the opportunities continue to expand as employers look for those who really understand today's challenging media environments.
