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Undergraduate handbook 2005 - Art and Design

Bachelor of Design

Course code: 2128 + Course abbreviation: BDes + Total credit points required: 144 + 3 years full-time + No further intake - this course is operational only for existing students enrolled prior to 2004

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Caulfield)

Course description

The course provides a multidisciplinary design education. Its focus is on the fundamental principles that underlie all designer activities. The design studio units are supported by electives selected from interior architecture, industrial design, visual communications and the specialisations within these disciplines such as photomedia, digital imaging, typography, illustration etc. The course is focused on producing graduates who have the capability to work across conventional design and industry boundaries and who are capable of responding flexibly and creatively to the changing commercial and cultural context of design activity.

Course structure

This course consists of the following areas of study.
(a) Design studios (48 credit points)
This is the major study of the course. There are studios at each year stage.
(b) Complementary studio units (12 credit points)
Students take `Typography' (6 credit points) and `Modelmaking and workshop practice 1' (6 credit points) as compulsory units to support their studio activities.
(c) Theory of art and design (30 credit points)
Students study the theory, context and cultural aspects of art and design.
(d) Drawing and visual structures (12 credit points)
These studies are concerned with the development of perception, communication and visual concepts primarily using drawing media.
(e) Digital imaging (12 credit points)
Students take the faculty's common unit `Digital imaging 1' and a further digital imaging elective in second year. All students may take further computing and digital imaging electives selected on the basis of their design focus.
(f) Electives (30 credit points)
Students take 30 points of electives selected from the range of units offered within the faculty and university. Electives should be determined in consultation with the course coordinator.
(g) Occupational Health and Safety (0 credit points)
A compulsory health and safety unit which deals with issues relevant to art and design.