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This course prepares you to work as a visual communication designer across traditional and new interactive media forms. The combination of strong visual communication skills with studies in interaction and experience design ensures that you have the profile of experience required to succeed in a highly competitive design sector. You will be able to work in a wide range of design practices, from creative advertising to interaction design, leading projects from the conceptual stages through to production and publication.
Why choose this course?
This course is delivered through QUT’s internationally renowned School of Design. It has an interdisciplinary focus that embraces twenty-first century design practice and offers a unique combination of traditional design skills and new technologies within a creative studio setting. Covering design for technologies such as smart phones, data tablets and urban screens, this course provides you with the skills and knowledge required to become a creative and innovative designer. A focus on experimentation, creativity, imagination and design thinking prepares you for a role as a leader in a rapidly changing industry. This exciting combination will give you the competitive edge required to gain employment in the contemporary design industry where the ability to work across new and traditional media is highly valued.
Our studio approach provides you with a fertile environment to develop your creative and technical skills. A focus on experience design and design innovation allows you to explore a range of media and technologies and develop your own personal design style leading to a unique portfolio of design work. You can select a second major from a wide range of study areas offered in business, creative media, design or information technology.
You will work on individual design projects as well as collaborate on industry-based, interdisciplinary team projects. The course provides you with opportunities to...
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Before you start this course we assume you have sound knowledge in these areas:
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We assume that you have knowledge equivalent to four semesters at high school level (Years 11 and 12) with sound achievement (4, SA).
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Design
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Industry
Visual Communication
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Course programme
Units
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Customise your degree
Your interactive and visual design course consists of 19 units in your primary major and four units that are common to all six design majors (architectural studies, fashion, industrial design, interactive and visual design, interior design or landscape architecture).
An additional eight units are taken outside your primary major. After studying for a year you can:
choose a second major (eight units from any approved QUT degree), or
choose two minors (a minor is a specific set of four units drawn from courses throughout QUT), or
choose one minor and four electives.
Minors and majors allow you to tailor your studies to suit your interests and career aspirations. Minors give you breadth of knowledge from two other areas and a second major provides depth in one area.
This means eight units of your course (one quarter of your degree) are taken from outside your primary major. You’ll work alongside students from other disciplines because that is how it will be when you graduate and work in the real world of design. The possibilities are almost endless. Here are some examples that might inspire ideas:
an architecture student could take a minor in interior design and a work integrated learning minor to gain professional industry experience
a landscape architecture student could take a language minor such as Italian to help them work overseas
an interior design student could take a second major in industrial design to aid their ambition to design and manufacture their own range of office furniture
an industrial design student could take a second major in mechanical or electrical engineering to give them a deeper understanding of manufacturing and production
a fashion student could take a minor in business and another in interior design to help meet their dream of launching their own concept fashion store
an interactive and visual design student could take a second major in advertising or marketing and work as a designer for a leading digital agency.
And remember - your second major or minors could be in film, creative writing, music, visual arts, drama or other disciplines across QUT. #
Your course
Year 1
understand the breadth of design process and theory
acquire technical skills
implement your designs across multiple media—from print through to digital
three foundation units covering design, design history and sustainability
units in visual communication, image production, web design, interaction design and design thinking
Year 2
deepen your visual and interaction design skills
focus on contemporary web interfaces - desktop, tablet and mobile platforms
study typography, visual communication theories, generative design processes and interaction design methodologies
commence your second major in areas such as 3D computer graphics, advertising, animation, architecture, art history, fashion design, film and TV, game design, industrial design, interior design, online environments, marketing, public relations or visual arts
Year 3
advanced studies through complex design projects
incorporate advanced visual and interaction design methodologies
study visual information design, tangible and embodied media, and contemporary issues
undertake industry internships in leading design firms locally and nationally as part of your studies
enrol in high-profile projects or international study tours
Year 4
complete a design-led research project - develop your own project, or work on highprofile real-world design projects led by QUT researchers and industry partners
develop a body of work that distinguishes and advances your design interests
design research methods and professional practice studies support this area of study and provide a context for design practice and a pathway to your career
Second degree
Undertaking a second major in one of the six design disciplines also gives you the option of obtaining a second degree*.
After graduation, you can return to complete the remaining 12 units (or equivalent) from your second major to obtain a second qualification. This is usually undertaken part time over two years while working.
Note: This is not a double degree because it is not undertaken simultaneously with the first degree.
Example
A student completes a Bachelor of Design (Honours) (Industrial Design) with a second major in interactive and visual design.
They can then return to complete units in interactive and visual design and graduate with a second design degree in interactive and visual design.
* To pursue a second design degree, this second major must be an approved set of eight units from within a Bachelor of Design (Honours) primary major.
# The choice of second majors may be limited in some disciplines.
Study overseas
Study overseas while gaining credit towards your QUT creative industries degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners. Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in a creative or non-creative discipline area, depending on how they match with your QUT course. Saving your electives for exchange will allow you the most flexibility. For more information, visit QUT student exchange.
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Course structure: 2015 onwardsCreative Industries Second Major optionsCreative Industries Minor optionsCreative Industries Undergraduate University Wide Unit optionsCreative Industries Work Integrated Learning Unit optionsLanguage Options
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