Students from a country where English is not the first language, must obtain a minimum English Language competency level.
IELTS: 6.0 (no band less than 5.5)
TOEFL iBT: 80 overall (min 19 in Writing)
PTE Academic: 50 Overall (min 42 in communicative skills)
Cambridge English: 170
Join a unique degree to extend your career options
If you love being creative and want to study a selection of theatre, performance, creative writing and digital media production courses, but you also want to ensure you have broader career prospects, the Bachelor of Communication (Expressive Arts) is for you.
Expressive arts is unique in New Zealand and was created in response to student demand. As part of your study, you will be able to choose from a range of activities such as devising, directing and writing theatre, writing creative works including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and screenplays, or filming and producing digital video.
Hands-on, relevant skills
The Bachelor of Communication (Expressive Arts) allows you to choose to learn from a range of practical skills in acting, managing productions, wordsmithing, scripting, storyboarding, and video filming and editing. You will also learn how these fit into the everyday activities of a professional communication practitioner and combine them with the leadership skills necessary to effectively manage people.
For example, you might write a travel memoir, produce a music video, or direct an experimental multi-media show based on your original script. You might be immersed in the techniques of improvisational theatre, including games and spontaneity activities, as a way of unlocking and managing your creativity across other media including creative writing. You might find yourself crafting Twitter poetry or learning how your posture communicates instantly to others.
Choose the creative discipline you love
Students told us they wanted a little bit of theatre, or creative writing, or digital media production, or some combination of all three, but not necessarily to focus just on one. So we invented ‘expressive arts’. We call it the ‘triple dip’ major where you can add as much or as little as you like to your degree from any of the three creative discipline areas of theatre, creative writing, or digital media production. You choose what to emphasise, whether it’s one, two or all three of these areas.
Devise, direct and write
As part of your study in the Bachelor of Communication (Expressive Arts), you will be able to devise, direct, write and produce theatre, creative writing and/or digital video productions.
International recognition
Massey University’s communication and media studies programmes are ranked in the top 150 world-wide (by QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) rankings). We are ranked No.1 in New Zealand and in the top 150 in the world for our business administration and communication programmes by ShanghaiRanking.
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Choose your courses for this major from the following list (each course is 15 credits):
No more than 60 credits from:
Speaking: Theory and Practice
Theatre for Change
Creative Processes
Making Plays for Theatre
Writing for Children
Writing Poetry
Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Fiction Writing
Digital Media Production I
Documentary (Non-fiction) Film
At least 60 credits from:
Modern Drama
Theatre in Production
Script Writing
Travel Writing
Advanced Fiction Writing
Creativity in the Community
The Publishing Project
Oceanic Literatures of Aotearoa: Ngā Tuhinga Kōrero o te Moana nui a Kiwa
Tragedy
Advanced Studies in Creative Writing
Life Writing
Digital Media Production II
Surveys have shown that today’s employers seek graduates who are collaborative, creative and can communicate well. They want staff who can give compelling presentations, problem-solve creatively, think originally, analyse perceptively, communicate effectively (both in person and on paper) and work well in teams. They especially want ‘creative disruptors’ in the sense of people who use their imagination to see things differently and propose new alternatives. Learn these skills through expressive arts. When combined with the communication and corporate skills that you learn through your Bachelor of Communication you will have a qualification that can be applied across an amazing range of roles.
Graduates with an expressive arts major are working today in government outreach, social media management, arts publicity, human resources, advertising, marketing and public relations, filmmaking, television and journalism, teaching, theatre and entertainment and creative and professional writing.
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