School of Communication and Creative Arts

The mixture of disciplines offered within the School of Communication and Creative Arts (SCCA) offers unique opportunities to prepare for the emerging professions of the 21st century.

Combining academic subjects from literature to creative and performing arts, communication, film and digital media, journalism and public relations, the courses within this School offer opportunities for intellectual and artistic exploration together with the professional skills and aptitudes necessary for the flexible workplace of the future

Teaching and research within SCCA are informed by innovative practices, creative thinking and state-of-the-art technologies and methods, and enhanced by the combined academic and professional experience of the School's staff.

The School of Communication and Creative Arts is composed of three discipline clusters which house, coordinate and develop the interdisciplinary patterns of contemporary thinking across communication and creative arts. The three clusters are:

• Text
• Image and Performance
• Communication

SCCA is also home to the Deakin Motion.Lab, which provides facilities and expertise in motion capture for teaching, research and commercial development. The studio aims to build capacity in motion capture in Victoria through providing opportunities for the digital creative industries to undertake commercial projects and research and development in motion capture. The studio provides undergraduate, postgraduate and short course opportunities for study in motion capture, and develops opportunities for interdisciplinary and collaborative research projects involving researchers and artists from creative and scientific disciplines.

SCCA also houses Deakin Creative as the hub of creative practice research within the university and the School. The Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention (CMII), a university strategic research group, is also closely connected to the leading scholars' research in the School and is a site for the development of collaborative research projects that work to foster a vibrant Higher Degree Research culture that resonates with School's key research and teaching strengths.