Master

In Canberra (Australia)

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Canberra (Australia)

  • Start date

    Different dates available

  • Credits

    96

Digital + MaterialInnovation + EngagementThe Master of Design enables students to develop digital literacy and material knowledge to become enterprising professionals across diverse design disciplines. This unique program provides contemporary design education by focusing on cutting-edge practice at the intersection of material and digital domains. A flexible structure allows students to bring together digital and material practices, in ways that broaden and deepen their skills, knowledge and design agility. Engagement and innovation are program foundations. Students will collaborate with expert teaching staff, industry, and public audiences to gain real world experience and develop versatile design expertise. Further InformationEntry to the Master of Design requires a successful assessment of a portfolio of works and other supporting material. Before applying, applicants should consult the ANU School of Art & Design website where the requirements are listed and supporting material submission information is detailed: Interested in writing a thesis? Check out the advanced version of this degree.Please be aware that any courses taken as part of the 24 units from completion of elective courses offered by ANU list will not count towards the advanced degree should you decide to transfer. This is because the advanced degree has no free electives, as they are in practice replaced by a 24 unit thesis.

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Canberra (Australia)
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The Australian National University, ACT 0200

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About this course

A Bachelor degree or international equivalent with a minimum GPA of 5.0/7.0.
Applicants must also have a successful assessment of a portfolio of works.
Applicants with a Bachelor Degree or Graduate Certificate in a cognate discipline may be eligible for up to 24 units (one semester) of credit. Applicants with a Graduate Diploma or Bachelor degree with Honours in a cognate discipline may be eligible for up to 48 units (one year) of credit.
Cognate Disciplines cations
Unless otherwise indicated, ANU will accept all Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) qualifications or international...

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Subjects

  • Staff
  • Composition
  • Performance
  • Design
  • Sound
  • Sound Design
  • Art design
  • Art
  • Collecting
  • Public
  • Project
  • Writing
  • Music
  • Musical
  • Musicology
  • Production

Course programme

The Master of Design requires completion of 96 units, which must consist of:

24 units from completion of the following introductory component:

6 units from completion of foundation theory courses from the following list:

ARTH6004 City Sites: studies in art and urbanity
ARTH6043 Modernism and Postmodernism in Art and Design: 1850-2000
ARTH6162 Cyberculture
ARTH6164 Theories of the Object
ARTH6165 Theories of the Image
ARTH6167 Issues in Contemporary Craft and Design
ARTH6171 Costume, Fashion and Visual Culture

18 units from completion of foundation studio and design courses from the following list:

ARTV6000 Animation
ARTV6003 Video Art
ARTV6006 Photography
ARTV6057 Hands On: Material Language
DESN8001 Design Inquiry: Application of Research

24 units from completion of disciplinary courses from the following list:

DESA6017 Multiples and Production: The Unique Offering
DESN6001 Digital Form and Fabrication
DESN6002 Foundations of Creative Code
DESN6003 Creative Data Visualisation: Representing Data in Visual and Material Form
DESN6004 Dynamic Design and Generative Systems
DESN6005 Form and Fabrication in Context
DESN6006 Front-End Web: Crafting Online Experience
DESN6010 Design Practice: Engagement, Internship and Entrepreneurship
DESN8001 Design Inquiry: Application of Research
DESN8002 Major Design Inquiry: Application of Research
DESN8003 Extended Design Inquiry: Application of Research
MGMT7161 New Venture Creation
MUSC8018 Exhibition Design and Delivery

24 units from completion of the following research component:

12 units from completion of research training courses from the following list:

ARTH8020 Arguing Objects
ARTH8021 Writing About Art and Creative Practice
ARTH8022 Points of View: Independent Creative Art and Media Practice
DART8067 Digital Arts Research: contexts, practices and methodologies

12 units from completion of research project courses from the following list:

DESN8001 Design inquiry: Application of Research
DESN8002 Major Design inquiry: Application of Research
DESN8003 Extended Design inquiry: Application of Research


24 units from completion of elective courses offered by ANU

The following courses are repeatable for credit, up to a maximum of 36 units each, and if repeated must be repeated with a different topic each time. Units from each instance of a course may only be counted towards meeting one requirement.

DESN8001 Design inquiry: Application of Research

DESN8002 Major Design inquiry: Application of Research

DESN8003 Extended Design inquiry: Application of Research

Unless otherwise stated, a course used to satisfy the requirements of one list may not be double counted towards satisfying the requirements of another list.

Master of Design

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