Bachelor of Midwifery Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation

Note

This course is not offered to international students.

This course incorporates midwifery theory, science and clinical practice in a range of health facilities. Graduates of the course are competent midwives who have the skills, knowledge and confidence to practise midwifery according to the international definition of the role and scope of practice of the midwife.

Taking a transdisciplinary approach, the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation utilises multiple perspectives from diverse fields, integrating a range of industry experiences, real-world projects and self-initiated proposals, equipping graduates to address the wicked problems, complex challenges and untapped opportunities in today's world.

The Bachelor of Midwifery program prepares students for registration as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. CUA delivered the first Bachelor of Midwifery program in New South Wales.

By focusing on the high-level conceptual thinking and problem-solving practices that lead to the development of innovative, creative and entrepreneurial outcomes, students of the combined degree also gain leading edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world, including dealing with critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship, and the ability to work on their own across disciplines. These creative intelligence competencies enable graduates to navigate in a rapidly changing world.

Innovation and Transdisciplinary program

Transdisciplinarity and Innovation at CUA

All CUA students have the opportunity to develop distinctive capabilities around transdisciplinary thinking and innovation through the TD School. Transdisciplinary education at CUA brings together great minds from different disciplines to explore ideas that improve the way we live and work in the world. These offerings are unique to CUA and directly translate to many existing and emerging roles and careers.

Diploma in Innovation

The Diploma in Innovation (C20060) teaches innovation, supports personal transformation and provides the hard skills needed to support the inventors and inventions of the future. Students come out of the Diploma in Innovation, with the hard skills to create and support sectoral and societal transformation. Graduates are able to fluently integrate ideas, across professional disciplines and are inventors of the future.

All CUA undergraduate students (with the exception of students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation) can apply for the Diploma in Innovation upon admission in their chosen undergraduate degree. It is a complete degree program that runs in parallel to any undergraduate degree. The course is offered on a three-year, part-time basis, with subjects running in 3-week long intensive blocks in July, December and February sessions. More information including a link to apply is available at javascript:void(0);.

Transdisciplinary electives program

Transdisciplinary electives broaden students' horizons and supercharge their problem-solving skills, helping them to learn outside, beyond and across their degrees. Students enrolled in an undergraduate course that includes electives can choose to take a transdisciplinary subject (with the exception of students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation). More information about the TD Electives program is available here.

CUA Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCII)

What is Creative Intelligence?

Opening Title: CUA Think. Change. Do.

Music Plays. Moving images of students in collaborative classroom making presentations to each other in response to Briefs from ABC and Google. (Moving image of BCII students Pranav Naik and Daniel Wasilewsky sitting together in a classroom at CUA)

Moving images of students working in teams deconstructing small, portable, electronic devices such as mobile phones and radios.

Pranav Naik B. Design in Architecture, B. Creative Intelligence and Innovation. Pranav: "Creative Intelligence to me is innovation, it's complexity, its originality, and its art in a sense to me."

Eleanor Crumpton B. Design in Integrated Product Design, B. Creative Intelligence and Innovation. Eleanor: "For me creative intelligence and innovation has really changed from what I originally thought it was, to what it is now. I really had no idea what i was expecting, but now I know its really about thinking in new and different ways." (Moving images of Eleanor engaging in group work and speaking with peers in a classroom setting) (moving images of Lee Hunter from Google speaking with microphone to the summer school class in a collaborative lecture space)

(Moving image of BCII students Becky McCreath and Jake Bayssari sitting together in a classroom at CUA)

Becky McCreath B. Engineering (ICT Engineering), B Creative Intelligence and Innovation. Becky: "Sometimes we're kinda talking about trying to explain how its a whole new way of thinking, so kind of completely different to your core degree. You're learning all of these different problem solving methods, just different ways to look at any problem, which will go with any degree that you're studying, any core discipline and just take it apart.

(moving images of students working in groups, drawing and constructing diagrams using small sticky notes and marker pens)

(Moving images of Lee Hunter addressing whole BCII group in a creative studio space)

Lee Hunter Head of Marketing Innovation, Google Asia-Pacific

Lee: "Creativity and innovation to me is all about a fascination with ideas and exploring what's new." (moving images of Lee speaking with microphone to the summer school class in a collaborative lecture space)

(Moving image of BCII students Jasper Ryan and Eloise Walker sitting together in a classroom at CUA) Jasper Ryan B. Engineering (Civil), B. Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

Jasper: "We focus more on how we're accessing the knowledge, rather than what particular knowledge we are accessing. We can actually say OK, what's this new development and how can we adapt to it? and how can we access this new knowledge while we are in the industry... It makes us a lot more versatile."

(moving images of students engaging in discussion in a creative agency space and then casually chatting in a collaborative lecture theatre)

Dominica Ingui BA. Communication (Public Communication), B. Creative Intelligence and Innovation. Dominica: "I think that creativity in entrepreneurship is particularly interesting in the current social climate because of globalisation. A lot of industries are becoming melded together, there is a lot of cross disciplinary action.

(moving images of Dominica writing notes in a notebook, engaging with another BCII student and referring to a digital screen together)

Eloise Walker BA. Communication (Media Arts and Production), B Creative Intelligence and Innovation. Eloise: "I feel like BCII is a brilliant way to network with people from many different industries.

Pranav: Creative intelligence really becomes a huge platform where you can showcase, explore and discuss your work with people of likeminded ideas.

Daniel Wasilewsky B. Business (Marketing and Management), B Creative Intelligence and Innovation. Daniel: "I find creative intelligence amazing, because I always asked the questions "Why?" and "How can I improve that?". It was always difficult to find people that also believed that. Creative Intelligence allows me to meet people that actually don't just see the world as it is, but see how the world could be."

(moving image of Annabel engaging in group work and typing notes on a laptop computer.)

Annabel Vici B Science, B Creative Intelligence and Innovation. Annabel: "If you have ever thought about something, thought about the way problems are being solved and thought about how you would do it differently… then I think BCII is a really great course for that, because it challenges you to push the solutions that we're coming up with currently.

Ellen Wiltshire BA. Communication (Media Arts and Production), B Creative Intelligence and Innovation. Ellen: I've used methods from BCII that I would use in a completely different way in the course itself, but I've taken it away to my core degree - Media Arts - and applied it to story telling techniques. I've used it in so many facets in other areas of my life as well.

Jarnae Leslie B. Design in Interior and Spatial Design,

B Creative Intelligence and Innovation. Jarnae: The CI mindset is compassionate, its understanding, its open-minded, its curious, its investigative, it pulls things apart - and not necessarily in a destructive way - but to pull it back together again.

Jake Bayssari BA. Communication (Media Arts and Production), B Creative Intelligence and Innovation. Jake: "This is the first time you are able to go into a space, into an area and receive a project, where your curiosity feeds the solutions, feeds the answers, feeds the questions.

Becky: … and we're so equipped to be those change agents, not only… We question all of these things and we come up with ideas and we get to push them. We get to be like, the forefront of innovation, taking all of these ideas out...

Jake: We're the first frontier in change… that's what I'd like to say - and you'll see our names in headlines ten years from now… (Jake gestures with hand indicating a headline above his head) "Change Agents - Jake and Becky" (laughter and smiles from Jake, Becky and film crew)

Music plays. Closing screen "Copyright 2015 University of Technology Sydney."

Ends

Study plan

The following example shows a typical full-time program.

First year

Autumn session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Midwifery Practice 1: Preparation for Practice 92667 6
Foundation of Midwifery Practice 92668 6
Transition to Parenthood 92669 6
Anatomy and Physiology: Pregnancy and Childbirth 92670 6
July session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Problems to Possibilities 81511 8
Spring session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Midwifery Practice 2: Supporting Women 92671 6
Translating Research into Midwifery Practice 92672 6
Promoting, Protecting and Supporting Breastfeeding 92673 6
Introductory Pharmacology and Microbiology 92354 6
Summer session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Creative Practice and Methods 81512 8

Second year

Autumn session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Perinatal Mental Health 92674 6
Midwifery Practice 3: Working with a Woman who has a Complex Pregnancy 92675 6
Power, Politics and Midwifery 92676 6
Care of the Newborn 92677 6
July session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Past, Present, Future of Innovation 81513 8
Spring session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Midwifery as Primary Healthcare: a Public Health Strategy 92678 6
Midwifery Practice 4: Working with a Woman who has a Complex Labour, Birth and Puerperium 92679 6
Optimising Physiological Processes in Childbearing 92680 6
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health: Women and Babies 92681 6

Third year

February session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Creativity and Complexity 81514 8
Autumn session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Midwifery Practice 5: Preparing for Professional Practice 92682 6
International Perspectives 92687 6
Working Within a Strengths-Based Midwifery Model 92685 6
Navigating a Midwifery Career Pathway 92684 6
July session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Leading Innovation 81515 8
Spring session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Midwifery Practice 6: Transitioning to Professional Midwifery Practice 92686 12
Synthesizing Midwifery and Research Translation (SMART) 92688 6
Leadership in Midwifery 92689 6
December session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Initiatives and Entrepreneurship 81516 8
Select 6 credit points from the following: 6
Innovation Internship A 81522 6
Designing Your Future 81550 6

Fourth year

Autumn session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Industry Innovation Project 81531 12
March session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Select 6 credit points from the following: 6
Transdisciplinary Practice at the Cutting Edge 81524 6
New Knowledge-making Lab 81528 6
July session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Select 6 credit points from the following: 6
Innovation Internship B 81525 6
Speculative Start-up 81523 6
Spring session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Creative Intelligence Capstone 81532 12
August session Subject Code Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.
Envisioning Futures 81521 6

Course fees

For relevant fee information, please choose from the following:

Local student

All students at CUA pay tuition fees to contribute towards the cost of their studies.

In 2024 all offers made to domestic undergraduate students will be for Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP), which means that the Australian government makes a substantial contribution towards the cost of your education, and you pay the balance through student contributions.

The amount you pay depends on your area of study and the number of credit points (cp) in which you enrol. At CUA 48 credit points is considered to be one Equivalent Full Time Study Load (EFTSL).

The table to the right shows the amount a student can expect to pay for one year of full-time study (1.0 EFTSL).

Students can choose to pay their student contribution upfront, or if eligible, can defer their fees through HECS-HELP.

In addition to tuition fees, students are required to pay a Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF). The purchase of textbooks and other course materials may also result in additional cost.

You can calculate your student contribution as a percentage of the amounts shown on the table. Fee rates are divided into four bands covering broad discipline areas.  It is important to note that a particular subject within a course may fall within a different band.

For example, if you are enrolled in a 6-credit point Architecture subject, your contribution would be 6/48 x $9,314 = $1,164.

Student contribution amounts for 2025 commencing students

2025 student contribution - Area of StudyAmount for 48 cp
Law, Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce, Communications and Society and Culture$16,992
Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Science$13,241
Allied Health, Other Health, Built Environment, Computing, Visual & Performing Arts, Professional Pathway Psychology, Professional Pathway Social Work, Engineering, Surveying, Environmental Studies, Science and Pathology$9,314
Education, Postgraduate Clinical Psychology, English, Mathematics, Statistics, Nursing or Foreign Languages and Agriculture$4,627

Careers

Career options include practising midwife in hospital, community, public and private settings in metropolitan and rural areas. Career progression opportunities include midwifery education management and research, and consultancy roles such as lactation or midwifery consultant.

By being creative thinkers, initiators of new ideas, scenario planners, global strategists, open network designers or sustainable futures innovators within their chosen field of study, graduates maximise the potential of their chosen profession, making them highly sought after graduates with the ability to identify and develop solutions to some of the most complex issues that face their disciplines and society.

Course structure

Course structure explained

Students must gain a minimum of 144 credit points to complete the Bachelor of Midwifery and 96 credit points in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation. The creative intelligence and innovation subjects are undertaken in accelerated form within July and Summer sessions during the first three years of study, and through one full year of study after completion of the professional degree. The Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation is not offered as a separate degree, but is completed only in combination with the professional degree program.

Full-time students study four subjects a session incorporating midwifery theory, science and clinical practice.

Industrial training/professional practice

This course includes extensive midwifery practice, which is a compulsory component. Students undertake midwifery professional experience in an allocated area health service facility. Clinical placements occur in blocks each session and are in addition to time spent in the midwifery clinical practice laboratories that simulate the clinical environment. The placements involve morning, evening and possibly night shifts. Over the duration of the course, students are also required to follow 20 women throughout their pregnancy, birth and the period after birth. This requires students to be on-call to attend the labour and birth. Students in the final year of their program undertake a prolonged period of clinical experience with much of their time spent in a clinical environment. Students also have the opportunity to complete a rural and remote placement.

All midwifery students must adhere to the requirements in the Ministry of Health policy directive, 'PD2020_017 Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases', prior to commencement of any clinical practice placements.

The policy should be read in full as it outlines students' obligation for screening and immunisation against certain infectious diseases prior to commencing their clinical placement. Students are asked to provide evidence of their immunity or vaccination status, and screening for tuberculosis (TB) status may also be required prior to or at the time of commencement of the first clinical placement. Students should be aware that if they do not meet the requirements of the policy they cannot commence the placement and as a result are not able to complete the course.

Students are also required to undertake a National Criminal Record Check and obtain a National Police Certificate.

In the full-time program, students commence midwifery professional experience in the clinical setting in first year and this continues into second and third years.

In the final year of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation, students can undertake between 6 and 12 credit points of internship (work experience) that relates to innovation within their research, career development or core degree specialisations. For students undertaking 12 credit points of internship, international internships may be negotiated. Students may be required to relinquish intellectual property when they opt in to certain industry-related experiences, particularly relating to internships and capstone projects.

Course completion requirements
Requirement Credit Points
STM90744 First-year subjects 48
STM90745 Second-year subjects 48
STM90746 Third-year subjects 48
STM90839 Core subjects (Creative Intelligence and Innovation) 96
Total 240

Additional information

Course duration

The course is offered on a four-year, full-time basis.

Admission requirements

Admission requirements

Applicants must have completed an Australian Year 12 qualification, Australian Qualifications Framework Diploma, or equivalent Australian or overseas qualification at the required level.

Admission to the combined degree is on merit according to the admissions policy for the Bachelor of Midwifery.

The English proficiency requirement for local applicants with international qualifications is: IELTS Academic: 7.0 overall with a minimum score of 7.0 in each subset; or TOEFL: iBT: 94 overall, reading 24, listening 24, speaking 23, writing 27; or PTE: 65-72 overall with a minimum score of 65 in each subset; or OET: minimum score of B in each of the 4 components (listening, reading, writing and speaking).

Eligibility for admission does not guarantee offer of a place.

Check to see if there are additional admission requirements for this course.

Additional information relating to this course, including the ATAR profile of domestic students who commenced this course in Autumn 2022, is located under CUA' admissions requirements, alongside information relating to the commencing student cohort who were enrolled in this course past the Autumn 2022 census date.

If you don't meet the admission requirements for this course, there may be alternative pathways to help you gain admission.

ATAR and selection ranks

To find out further information regarding ATAR and selection ranks from previous applicants who received an offer to this course, please visit our Admissions Stats Tool

Year 12 adjustment factor scheme

To see a list of courses where HSC subjects provide adjustment factors, please refer to the Year 12 adjustment factors page.

Scholarships and prizes

Scholarships

For Creative Intelligence and Innovation and Health - 2 students

Only for international students

For all domestic students

Only for Aboriginal Australian or Torres Strait Islander students

Prizes and awards

For Creative Intelligence and Innovation and Health - 2 students

Professional recognition

This course is subject to accreditation by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) and approval by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA).

CUA: Handbook

See the Bachelor of Midwifery Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation in the CUA: Handbook for comprehensive course details.

Information for international students

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Domestic students

Before you apply

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How to apply

Domestic applicants can apply via the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC) (opens an external site)

UAC code(s): 609570 (Autumn session)

Make a note of the relevant UAC code before starting the UAC application.

Intake

Autumn Session 2025

Important dates

NOVEMBER 2024
1
Closing date for change of preferences (November Round 1)
8
UAC offers released (November Round 1)
14
Closing date for change of preferences (November Round 2)
21
UAC offers released (November Round 2)
28
Closing date for change of preferences (December Round 1)
DECEMBER 2024
5
UAC offers released (December Round 1)
18
CUA Info Day
18
Closing date for change of preferences (December Round 2)
23
UAC offers released (December Round 2)
JANUARY 2025
2
Closing date for change of preferences (January Round 1)
9
UAC offers released (January Round 1)
16
Closing date for change of preferences (January Round 2)
23
UAC offers released (January Round 2)
30
Closing date for change of preferences (February Round 1)
FEBRUARY 2025
3 - 14
Autumn session orientation
6
UAC offers released (February Round 1)
7
Closing date for change of preferences (February Round 2)
13
UAC offers released (February Round 2)
17
Autumn session commences (main calendar)
27
Closing date for change of preferences (March Round 1)
MARCH 2025
3
Last day to enrol for Autumn session
6
UAC offers released (March Round 1)
20
Autumn census date – last day to withdraw from subjects or apply for leave of absence

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Scholarships, prizes and awards

Scholarships

For Creative Intelligence and Innovation and Health - 2 students

Only for international students

For all domestic students

Only for Aboriginal Australian or Torres Strait Islander students

Prizes and awards

For Creative Intelligence and Innovation and Health - 2 students

International students

Before you apply

Here are a few important things for you to check out before you apply:

You can meet an international student advisor at one of our events worldwide to ask questions and submit an application.

Important dates

Visit the CUA Handbook for full academic dates. Visit essential information for international students for the application closing dates.

How to apply

This course is not available to international applicants. CUA International has information on all courses available to international applicants wishing to study at CUA.

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Scholarships, prizes and awards

Scholarships

For Creative Intelligence and Innovation and Health - 2 students

Only for international students

For all domestic students

Only for Aboriginal Australian or Torres Strait Islander students

Prizes and awards

For Creative Intelligence and Innovation and Health - 2 students