Tell engaging stories your way

Become a unique storyteller with Charles Sturt University's acting, performance and theatre media courses. Create, produce, design, perform and manage original creative projects and events from start to finish, working across live and digital platforms. From the day you start, you’ll work in our theatres, drama studios, multifunction television studios, set and prop building workshops, costume rooms and outdoor performance spaces.

Communicate creatively

Drive business awareness and success by devising and delivering transformational communication campaigns. Express your creativity and hone your organisational strengths. Get real-world experience at our on-campus communication agency, Kajulu Communications. You could also add a business degree to your public relations or advertising degree with just one additional year of study.

Bring ideas to life

Visualise ideas in unique and compelling ways. From the traditional aspects of animated storytelling to the vast array of digital technology options, studying animation and visualisation at Charles Sturt University lets you combine your creativity with extensive skill development while getting hands-on with our cutting-edge technology. Taught by industry leaders in a collaborative environment, our courses let you explore your visual talents across media industries.

Create and collaborate on engaging visuals

Craft visual messages, generate experiences and uncover stories across a range of traditional and experimental mediums. Harness your skills in image design and visual communication to solve tomorrow’s problems.

Produce compelling content across media

Enthral audiences on screens big and small. Pursue your interests and build your capabilities under the guidance of leading industry practitioners in Charles Sturt University's extensive creative facilities.

Find new ways to communicate

Shape the world of creativity through code, data, research, design and storytelling. Produce compelling content for breakthrough digital platforms. Understand and harness the forces that have shaped the online space and digital economy to build the future of the communication and creative industries.

Get to the heart of the story

Our journalism courses train you in the latest techniques and technologies for planning, creating and managing dynamic content to enthral your audience. From organising digital news feeds to breaking exclusive stories and reporting on the big games, a degree from Charles Sturt University shows you’ve got what it takes to make the news.

Craft performances for stage and screen

Learn to captivate audiences with your unique stories through Charles Sturt University's performance design courses. Work in performance design on digital and live platforms as you create, produce, design and manage events and original creative projects from start to finish. You’ll get hands-on learning from day one in Charles Sturt University’s theatres, drama studios, multifunction TV studios, set and prop building workshops, costume rooms and outdoor performance spaces.

Capture the world through pictures

Turn your passion for photography into a successful business or dynamic career. From analogue to the latest digital imaging, Charles Sturt University’s design and visual arts course will sharpen your technical skills and aesthetic sense to help you become a leading visual problem-solver with the ability to produce innovative, exciting and questioning photo-based work.

Tell stories through sound

Forge a career in the exciting worlds of audio production and broadcasting. Whether adding effects to stage or screen productions, or devising compelling content for radio, you’ll receive guidance from leading practitioners in the field. You’ll also gain extensive practical experience in innovative learning facilities, so you can bring your ideas to life.

Reimagine the possibilities

Combine studio arts experience in traditional mediums with contextual knowledge and contemporary technology. Our courses help you forge connections with expanding public and private museums, galleries and libraries. You will be empowered to expand your career possibilities as an emerging professional artist, curator or educator – or pursue opportunities in arts management.