Attributes, outcomes and skills: Master of Film and Television (MC-FILMTV)

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this course, graduates should be able to:

adapt knowledge of screen making and production processes to the evolving demands of contemporary practice;
engage in creative risk taking and experimentation;
investigate, analyse and synthesise complex concepts and theories that contribute to professional screen practice or scholarship;
critically engage with practice-led research principles and methods in creating screen work;
communicate knowledge and ideas to diverse audiences using robust evidence-based arguments;
apply cognitive, technical, business and creative skills to solving screen making problems and challenges;
apply critically reflective, self-directed and cooperative learning practices to independent screen projects;
produce screen-based works of a professional standard whilst exhibiting personal autonomy and accountability;
exhibit creative and flexible leadership, working collegially and collaboratively across multiple contexts with diverse stakeholders;
develop a flexible and resilient strategic career pathway in a changing industry landscape;
nurture their own and others' artistic vision.

On completion of this course, graduates should be able to:

work autonomously, use expert judgement, with knowledge, adaptability and responsibility as a practitioner and learner;
work as a leader showing initiative and openness and with creativity and initiative in new situations;
work collaboratively, responsibly, and flexibly across disciplines, with a diverse range of stakeholders to effectively communicate, interpret and analyse with a capacity for critical thinking;
establish clear and attainable project goals;
determine and embrace the commercial viability of ideas;
network, broker, mentor and lead others in the skills of problem solving;
demonstrate a positive self-concept that facilitates effective action through self-regulation and motivation to successfully navigate challenges and manage conflict;
demonstrate resilience (working under pressure).

Graduates of the Master of Film and Television will be:

screen professionals that are respected industry storytellers, acknowledged through their knowledge, practices, dispositions and creativity applied across disciplines;
empowered cultural agents who demonstrate leadership as ethical storytellers and resilient collaborators that can work productively within complex professional screen environments;
multidisciplinary screen artists with strategic, creative, entrepreneurial and critical thinking skills that underpin research and translation, for local and global challenges;
commercially-aware screen practitioners who work at the intersection of creativity and business, who use evidence-based decision-making skills;
allies that acknowledge and respect Indigenous cultural knowledges, creative practices and diplomacies and Creative and Cultural IP.

Last updated: 4 October 2024