The Design Major enables students to develop digital literacy and material knowledge in cutting-edge design practice and research. Students are introduced to fundamentals and choose from courses that bring together experimentation, collaborative and independent project work and research in ways that broaden and deepen skills, knowledge and design agility. A flexible structure allows students to develop creative agency to respond to our world’s wicked problems. Students develop their design through research-driven approaches and partnerships with industry.
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate an understanding of the technical, cultural and conceptual aspects of design practice;
- generate, develop and evaluate ideas and concepts using critical, technical and creative skills through design projects;
- critically reflect upon and evaluate design artefacts; and
- interpret, communicate and present ideas in modes suited to a range of audiences.
Other Information
DESN3010, DESN3011, and DESN3012 are capstone courses for this major and intended to be taken in the final year of study. Students must have completed DESN1002, DESN1003 and at least 12 units of 2000-level DESN-coded courses to enrol.
Requirements
This major requires the completion of 48 units, which must include:
A maximum of 18 units of courses at 1000-level
A minimum of 18 units of courses at 3000-level
30 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:
DESN1002 Visual Communication: Design and Production
DESN1003 Contemporary Design In Context
DESN3010 Design Studio: Independent Practice
DESN3011 Design Studio: Engagement and Collaboration
DESN3012 Design Studio: Professional Practice
6 units from completion of a course from the following list:
DESN2007 Speculative and Critical Design
DESN2008 Design Thinking: Human-Centred Design Methodologies
12 units from completion of courses from the following list:
DESN1004 The Past as Prototype: History, Ethics and Concepts for Design in the Twenty-First Century
DESN1005 Precise Drawing and Model Making
DESN2001 Digital Form and Fabrication
DESN2002 Foundations of Creative Code
DESN2003 Creative Data Visualisation: Representing Data in Visual and Material Form
DESN2004 Autonomous Agents
DESN2006 Front-End Web: Crafting Online Experience
DESN2009 Typography in Context: Digital Typographic Design
DESN2010 Making Creative and Critical Technologies: Physical Computing for Design and Art
DESN2012 The Ethics of Making: Design for Reparative Practices
DESN2015 Supporting Bodies: Now that we're here, where do we sit?
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