Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation courses

The CISI format is unique and draws on cutting-edge educational practices for postgraduate learning. It has been developed to work with deep expertise and quick thinkers looking for new methods and practices that extend thinking and can be worked with in real time. The course harnesses the best of educational technology and mixes this with the value of personal and community building.

All learning in the CISI program is at masters’ level.

You pay as you go and choose how much you need, with options to take a short course, a graduate certificate, graduate diploma or masters. You can scale up or down between each postgraduate award level as you need.

The CISI graduate certificate, graduate diploma and masters courses include access to a dedicated CISI concierge service to support your learning pathway.

As a CISI alumnus, you'll have ongoing access to a platform for idea exchange and a community of like-minded changemakers.

CISI course options

CISI offers a mix of online, hybrid and face-to-face learning. Face-to-face offerings run in intensive conference mode twice a year and are scheduled in advance. 

COURSE	Credit points	COMMITMENT	DURATION	APPLY
Short course	3cp	10 hours/week over 6 weeks	Up to 6 weeks	Apply
Graduate Certificate	24cp	10 hours/week over 6-week sessions	18 months to 2 years	Apply*
Graduate Diploma	48cp	Generally 10 hours/week over 6-week sessions (some subjects run in block mode)	2 to 3 years	Apply*
Masters	72cp	Generally 10 hours/week over 6-week sessions (some subjects run in block mode)	2 to 4 years	Apply*

* Note: The UTS online application portal for CISI Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Masters courses (session 4, 2024) is open from Monday 5 February 2024. Applications for these courses close on 16 June 2024.

 

Short courses

There are multiple short courses (microcredentials) in this suite. They can be taken as stand-alone units or grouped. All will be recognised learning if you decide to do more of the CISI program.

Find out more about CISI microcredentials

Graduate Certificate

The Graduate Certificate is the entry point for the CISI postgraduate course.

Select subjects to suit your schedule and build your creative practice whilst enjoying a stimulating and collegiate learning environment with peers

Find out more about the Graduate Certificate

Graduate Diploma

The Graduate Diploma is the midpoint in the postgraduate course. 

Select subjects to suit your schedule and build your creative thinking and practices while exchanging insights and practices in studio-style learning with a cohort of your peers.

Find out more about the Graduate Diploma

Masters program

The Masters program is the complete postgraduate course. 

Choose from the full suite of subjects to build your creative thinking and practices while exchanging insights and practices in studio-style learning with a cohort of your peers. 

As a Masters’ learner, you can undertake Lab subjects that give you a framework to conduct research and explore innovative change within your own organisation, to design and test experimental projects and to map the strategic conditions for that innovation to flourish in your context. 

Find out more about the Masters program

Course entry dates in 2024

Key to course level: M = microcredential, PG = entry point for the GradCert, GradDip and Masters program

COURSE (Level)	APPLICATIONS CLOSE	PROGRAM STARTS	APPLY NOW
Futures Thinking (M)	27 February	13 March	Apply
Creative Intelligence Catalyser (M)	24 April	4 May	Apply
CISI Masterclass (PG)	16 June	3 July	Apply*
Frame Innovation (M)	20 June	2 July	Apply
Creative Intelligence Catalyser (M)	14 August	28 August	Apply

* Note: The UTS online application portal for CISI Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Masters courses (session 4, 2024) is open from Monday 5 February 2024. Applications for these courses close on 16 June 2024.