The CCD Postgraduate Diploma and Masters programs aim to:

  • develop innovative teaching and learning models of inquiry and action-based research within the context of CCD practice
  • advance the CCD research agenda through strategic partnerships with the public policy sector
  • consolidate CCD practice strengths in all art forms
  • engage leading practitioners as state, national and international presenters
  • develop and maintain cross-sectoral partnerships with education, community development, justice, health/wellbeing, urban renewal/development, public housing and specific communities (youth, aged, ethnic and indigenous)
  • align multi-discipline resources and cross-sectoral arrangements
  • maintain philanthropic partnerships
  • provide scholarship opportunities for financially disadvantaged, specific ethnic and indigenous students.
Course and subject descriptions and application forms:

The course is co-ordinated by CCD practitioner Sue Clark (arts educator/curriculum designer/strategic planner/researcher/cultural analyst) with CCD field based artists/teachers including Dr Lachlan MacDowall (researcher/writer/new media artist/cultural theorist), Dean Merlino (researcher/musician) Kevin Brennan (writer, producer/project manager/cultural planner), Dr Kathleen Brasher (research) and Shahin Shafaei (digital storytelling and theatre).