Digital + Material

Innovation + Engagement

Combine cutting-edge digital practices with internationally-renowned art and craft studio disciplines in the Bachelor of Design.

Design students will benefit from deep immersion in digital, manual and theoretical studies and a wide overview of creative practices. From coding, to making, to manufacture, students apply hands-on design to digital and physical materials. Students delve into web design, data visualisation, and interaction design, and experiment in studios to develop expertise in the latest digital form and fabrication processes.

This degree prepares students with transferable knowledge and skills required to make their mark on a rapidly changing world.

Explore the complex and fascinating world of genetics and unravel the mysteries of DNA with the ANU Bachelor of Genetics.

You’ll learn how genes hold our hereditary information, study classical genetics, molecular genetics, population genetics, and bioinformatics. You can even follow interests in areas as diverse as plant genetics, evolutionary genetics or medicine and health.

Studying at ANU means you’ll be exposed to ground-breaking research being undertaken by our academics in active research laboratories at the Research School of Biology and the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australia’s national medical research institute.

Find out more about genetics, the degree structure, the university experience, career opportunities and student stories on our website.

Get the inside story on what it’s like to be an ANU student by visiting our student blog.

This program is not available for Semester 2 commencement.

Employment Opportunities

Graduates of the Bachelor of Design may find careers in fields including object design, visual communication, data visualisation, user experience design, graphic design, web design, interface design, design thinking and strategic design.

Graduates of the Bachelor of Design may find careers in fields including object design, visual communication, data visualisation, user experience design, graphic design, web design, interface design, design thinking and strategic design.

Learning Outcomes

1. demonstrate skills and knowledge of the practices, languages, forms, materials and technologies in their relevant discipline;

2. research, develop and evaluate design concepts and processes by thinking creatively, critically and reflectively;

3. apply skills and knowledge to the creation, visualisation and production of design projects;

4. work independently and collaboratively on design projects and respond to project demands;

5. interpret, communicate and present ideas, problems and arguments in modes suited to a range of audiences; and

6. recognise and reflect on social, cultural technological, environmental and ethical issues of creative practice and design considering local and international perspectives.

1. understand and evaluate the significance of genetic information and discoveries in educational and professional contexts;

2. apply a range of skills and laboratory genetic techniques to addressing specific problems in the field of genetic research;

3. use a range of analytical techniques for the interpretation of genetic data to address specific hypotheses;

4. convey and relate professional and disciplinary information and ideas to diverse audiences in effective and appropriate ways;

5. exercise personal, professional and social responsibility by acting as an interpreter of genetic information in the public domain.

Admission Requirements

Prerequisites

ACT: Chemistry (Major); NSW:  Chemistry or equivalent. More information about interstate subject equivalencies can be found here.

Students who do not meet the chemistry requirement may be admitted into the program via a different pathway. Students who:

• Have an ATAR score of 90 or higher, and

• Commence the Bachelor of Science program after completion of the chemistry bridging course available in February through the ANU Research School of Chemistry (or equivalent) and complete CHEM1101 and BIOL1003 with a minimum average of 65%, may then apply to transfer to the Bachelor of Genetics.

Adjustment Factors

Adjustment factors are additional points added to an applicant's Selection Rank (for example an applicant's ATAR). ANU offers adjustment factors based on performance and equity principles, such as for high achievement in nationally strategic senior secondary subjects and for recognition of difficult circumstances that students face in their studies. 

Selection Rank adjustments are granted in accordance with the approved schedules, and no more than 15 (maximum 5 subject/performance-based adjustment factors and maximum 10 equity-based adjustment factors) can be awarded. 

You may be considered for adjustment factors if you have:

• applied for an eligible ANU Bachelor degree program
• undertaken Australian Year 12 or the International Baccalaureate
• achieved an ATAR or equivalent at or above 70
• not previously attempted tertiary study.

Please visit the ANU Adjustment Factors website for further information.

Scholarships

ANU offers a wide range of scholarships to students to assist with the cost of their studies.

Eligibility to apply for ANU scholarships varies depending on the specifics of the scholarship and can be categorised by the type of student you are.  Specific scholarship application process information is included in the relevant scholarship listing.

For further information see the Scholarships website.

Program Requirements

The Bachelor of Design flexible double degree component requires completion of 96 units, of which:

A maximum of 42 units may come from completion of 1000-level courses

The 96 units must include:

36 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:

DESN1002 Visual Communication: Design and Production

DESN1003 Contemporary Design in Context

DESN1004 The Past as Prototype: History, Ethics and Concepts for Design in the Twenty-First Century

DESN2008 Design Thinking: Human-Centred Design Methodologies

DESN3010 Design Studio: Independent Practice

DESN3011 Design Studio: Engagement and Collaboration

A minimum of 6 units from the completion of foundation courses from the following list:

ARTV1020 Figure and Life

ARTV1021 Image and Object

ARTV1033 Hold Everything: Studio Foundation

DESA1021 Precise Drawing and Model Making

A minimum of 12 units from the completion of interdisciplinary concepts and theories courses from the following list:

ANTH1002 Culture and Human Diversity: Introducing Anthropology

ANTH1003 Global Citizen: Culture, Development and Inequality

ANTH2005 Traditional Australian Indigenous Cultures, Societies and Environment

ANTH2009 Culture and Development

ANTH2017 Culture, Social Justice and Aboriginal Society Today

ANTH2025 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

ANTH2026 Medicine, Healing and the Body

ANTH2132 Food for Thought: Anthropological Theories of Food and Eating

ANTH2134 States and Citizens: Anthropological Perspectives

ARTH1006 Art and Design Histories: Form and Space

ARTH1007 Art and Design Histories: Making and Meaning

ARTH2043 After the Bauhaus: Design from the Interwar Period to the Age of Climate Crisis

ARTH2162 Art in the Digital Age

ARTH2167 Issues in Contemporary Craft and Design

ARTH2080 Art and Visual Culture of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1815

ARTH2098 Australian First Nations Art and Culture

ARTH2174 Art, Medicine, Gender from the Renaissance until Today

ENVS1001 Environment and Society: Geography of Sustainability

ENVS1003 Introduction to Environmental and Social Research

ENVS1004 Australia’s Environment

ENVS1008 Sustainable Development

GEND1001 Sex, Gender and Identity: An Introduction to Gender Studies

GEND1002 Reading Popular Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Studies

GEND2023 Gender, Sex and Sexuality: An Introduction to Feminist Theory

GEND2034 Going Public: Sex, Sexuality and Feminism

GEND2036 Excessive Appetites: Sociocultural Perspectives on Addiction and Drug Use

GEND2057 Relationships, Marriage and Family

HUMN1001 Digital Culture: Being Human in the Information Age

HUMN2001 Introduction to Digital Humanities and Public Culture - Tools, Theories and Methods

INDG1001 Indigenous Peoples, Populations and Communities

INDG1002 First Peoples' experiences and ways of being: resilience, agency, resurgence and rights

INDG2001 Indigenous Cultural and Natural Resource Management

PHIL1004 Fundamental Ideas in Philosophy: An Introduction

PHIL1005 Logic and Critical Thinking

PHIL1007 What is Humanity?

PHIL1008 Introduction to Ethics

PSYC1003 Psychology 1: Understanding Mind, Brain and Behaviour

PSYC1004 Psychology 2: Understanding People in Context

PSYC1005 The Wellbeing Formula: The Science and Practice of Making a Good Life

SOCY1002 Self and Society

SOCY1004 Analysing the Social World: An Introduction to Social Psychology

SOCY1006 Society & Technological Change

A minimum of 24 units from completion of design courses from the following list:

DESN2001 Digital Form and Fabrication

DESN2002 Foundations of Creative Code

DESN2003 Creative Data Visualisation: Representing Data in Visual and Material Form

DESN2004 Dynamic Design and Generative Systems

DESN2006 Front-End Web: Crafting Online Experience

DESN2007 Design Fiction: Speculative and Critical Design

DESN2009 Typography in Context: Digital Typographic Design

DESN2010 Making Creative and Critical Technologies: Physical Computing for Art and Design

DESN2012 The Ethics of Making: Design for Reuse and Repair

A maximum of 18 units from completion of studio courses listed in the:

Visual Arts Practice Minor

The Bachelor of Genetics flexible double degree component requires completion of 96 units, of which:

A maximum of 36 units may come from completion of 1000-level courses

The 96 units must include:

60 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:

BIOL1003 Biology 1: Evolution, Ecology & Genetics (6 units)

BIOL1004 Biology 2: Molecular & Cell Biology (6 units)

CHEM1101 Chemistry 1 (6 units)

CHEM1201 Chemistry 2 (6 units)

BIOL2151 Genetics (6 units)

BIOL2161 Genes: Replication and Expression (6 units)

BIOL2162 Molecular Gene Techniques (6 units)

BIOL2202 Experimental Design and Analysis in Biology (6 units)

BIOL3161 Genomics & its Applications (6 units)

BIOL3204 Genetics of Human Disease 1 (6 units)

 A maximum of 6 units from completion of a computer programming course from the following list:

BIOL2001 Introduction to Quantitative Biology (6 units)

COMP1730 Programming for Scientists (6 units)

A minimum of 6 units from completion of a course from the following list

BIOL1009 Diversity of Life (6 units)

BIOL2114 Evolution (6 units)

BIOL2117 Cell Biology (6 units)

BIOL2142 General Microbiology (6 units)

A minimum of 18 units from completion of courses from the following list:

BIOL3002 Plants: Genes and the Environment (6 units)

BIOL3108 Hallmarks of Cancer (6 units)

BIOL3109 Developmental Biology (6 units)

BIOL3141 Infection and Immunity (6 units)

BIOL3144 Advanced and Applied Immunology (6 units)

BIOL3157 Bioinformatics and Its Applications (6 units)

BIOL3177 Advances in Molecular Plant Sciences (6 units)

BIOL3178 Recovering Threatened Species and Ecosystems (6 units)

BIOL3188 ANU SynBio Challenge Team Project (6 units)

BIOL3191 Bioethics and Society (6 units)

BIOL3201 Big Questions in Biology (6 units)

BIOL3205 Genetics of Human Disease 2 (6 units)

BIOL3206 Evolution of Biodiversity (6 units)

BIOL3208 Biology Research Project (6 units)

BIOL3209 Biology Research Project (12 units)

BIOL3213 Australian Wildlife (6 units)

BIAN3113 Human Evolution (6 units)

6 units from completion from a 2000 or 3000 level course from the following subject area:

BIOL Biology

MEDN Medicine

NEUR Neuroscience

Students must achieve a minimum 65% weighted average mark across all Science courses in the Bachelor of Genetics component undertaken in each period (Summer/First Semester/Autumn) and (Winter/Second Semester/Spring) in order to continue in the Bachelor of Genetics. Students who do not achieve a minimum of 65% weighted average mark will be transferred from the Bachelor of Genetics double degree to the equivalent Bachelor of Science double degree

Minors

Bachelor of Design Minors