At USQ, we understand the importance of keeping your knowledge and skills up-to-date, especially if you are looking to upskill or re-skill. That’s why we offer a range of professional development ‘single courses’ that provide you with access to our educational resources, lecturers, and facilities, without the commitment of a full degree.

Throughout the year, there are over 700 courses to choose from. Check out our courses in: Business & Commerce Creative Arts & Media Education Engineering & Built Environment Health & Community Humanities & Communication Information Technology Law & Justice Sciences - Computational Sciences - Lab-Based. Each course is a ‘bite-sized’ experience, with most courses taking just 1 Semester (6 months). Our single courses are perfect if you are looking to upskill in a particular area, need to satisfy professional development requirements, want to refresh your current skills, would like to explore a passion or are looking for a taste of uni life. It is your opportunity to continue into a USQ degree provided you meet the program’s entry requirements. How much will it cost? ... [-]

This course is designed to introduce students to the range of skills necessary to begin a pathway into a career in programming for the Electronic Games industries. C++ Programming Foundations is an introductory level online course that is extremely flexible allowing students to study at their own pace, in their own time and in their own place while still being fully supported in their learning. The course contains detailed self-paced tutorials, numerous exercises, an assessment task for each of its modules that develops a mini computer game over the duration of the study. Course materials include a combination of text-based (Adobe Acrobat) and flash based video tutorials, plus links to websites where appropriate. Successful completion of C++ Programming Foundations enables students to enter directly into more intensive programming courses, such as the Advanced Diploma of Professional Game Development - Specialising in Software Development at AIE.... [-]

This fascinating online course provides anyone with a little musical creativity and a music software program the tools to adapt their skills to creating music for the screen.

The rapid increase in worldwide content creation including film, short film, documentary, corporate video, web series, television series and television commercials is providing an unprecedented opportunity for composers/creators of music to earn an income from their musical works.

You'll study examples by the greatest film composers of all time John Williams (Star Wars), Ennio Morricone (Django Unchained), Hans Zimmer (Inception), Thomas Newman (American Beauty) and many more, to find out how it's done by the masters and how you can apply their techniques to your own original score.... [-]

From the comfort of your keyboard, learn how to shoot quality videos with your iPhone or iPad and create stories on the go, in this five-week online course. Filmmaker and cinematographer Gareth Tillson will lead this course featuring video tutorials, weekly assignments and a weekly online chat session, where you will get real-time feedback from the tutor.

Chat sessions will take place Thursday evenings from 19:30 to 20:30 AEDT.

You will learn all the tips and tricks for professional standard framing, focus, sound, exposure, coverage, and editing -- plus get a glimpse of the myriad of new accessories that are now available to complement this emerging style of film-making. This course is ideal for anyone who wants to make high standard video content on their iPhone or iPad, and it's been designed for people looking to study outside of office hours.... [-]

From the comfort of your keyboard, wherever you may be. Learn with an AFTRS Open's industry expert -- online!

This immensely popular course comprises ten modules with two weekly online chat sessions, a variety of assignments and collaborative activities.

With a strong focus on...

Concept Structure Story Character

...this lively and engaging course makes the task of screenwriting that much easier for emerging writers by imparting the skills of preparation. This is the extensive groundwork you do before you actually start writing.

Participants should begin this course with the germ of an idea for a genre based screenplay. This should not be an idea that has already been written as a screenplay.... [-]

This is an online, ten-week course that will introduce you to the fundamentals of creating viable and original TV drama and comedy series concepts.

Enrolments for this course close on Friday 9th October at 5 pm OR when the course is full. There is an online tutorial session every Tuesday evening 7-9pm from 13th October to 15th December.

The course comprises ten modules with a wide variety of learning activities in a lively online text chat forum and includes:

viewing and analysis of existing drama and comedy online group activities individual assignments and tutor feedback students will be supplied with course notes for individual download.

Specific areas to be explored are the creation of a dramatic world, the 'what if' conceptual question, development and creation of a dynamic protagonist, the use of secondary characters, primary and secondary storylines and assembling a series concept document.... [-]

webisode

ˈwɛbɪsəʊd/

noun

plural noun: webisodes

1. an original episode derived from a television series, made for online viewing.

an online video that presents an original short film or promotes a product, film, or television series.

Led by writer/producer/director Pauline Clague, this intensive, eight week, the online program uses online chat sessions, viewings, readings and AFTRS video tutorials to explore the art of creating a bible for a Webisode series, culminating in personalised feedback on your pitch document from an Australian TV network.

Webisodes are quickly becoming the new short films (Bondi Hipsters, The Katering Show, Funny Or Die, Diddy TV) giving new & emerging filmmakers who have yet to work in series television the opportunity to see how their film ideas might work in a longer format.... [-]