Teaching Television at Universities: Skills for the 'Real World'

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) introduced the first undergraduate degree in 2004 at an Australian University focused specifically on television, called the Bachelor of Creative Industries. QUT brands itself as a university for the 'real world' by being vocationally oriented and hence the aim in developing the content of the degree was to make the students aware of how the television industry worked, the philosophical underpinnings of its current structure and function and how it could work differently