Bachelor of Design (Digital Technologies)

2024 Deakin University Handbook

Year

2025 course information

Award granted Bachelor of Design (Digital Technologies)
Deakin course codeA344
Faculty

Faculty of Arts and Education

Campus

Offered at Burwood (Melbourne)

For students who commenced prior to 2023 only

Duration3 years full-time or part-time equivalent
CRICOS course code095256A Burwood (Melbourne)

The final intake to this course was in Trimester 3 2022.

Students should contact a Student Adviser in Student Central for course and enrolment information.

Further course structure information can be found in the handbook archive.

Course sub-headings

Course Learning Outcomes

Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes Course Learning Outcomes
Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities Utilize agile, practical and theoretical proficiencies in the unified application of digital design technologies for information, immersion and augmentation. Graduates will be able to meet client requirements in a rapidly changing industry setting.
Communication Interpret and transmit ideas and interactions employing specific language, concepts and technologies to response to intelligent digital application scenarios.
Digital literacy Utilize theoretical knowledge and practical skills to evaluate digital applications with regard to software development.
Critical thinking Develop skills in critical thinking and the analytical evaluation of digital applications. Creatively engage with a range of strategies to demonstrate professional prototyping and industry outcomes.
Problem solving Utilize design thinking methods to empathise, analyse, ideate, prototype and test complex interactive, augmented and human centred design products.
Self-management Initiate autonomous and self-directed management techniques; demonstrating professional responsibility and accountability to a wide range of digital applications.
Teamwork Lead, deliver and perform within a collaborative team to produce broad professional outcomes within a multidisciplinary and agile creative environment.
Global citizenship Critically engage designs capacity to act as an agent of change in multiple contexts. To identify and develop proposals for personal and corporate social, cultural and ethical responsibilities in a global and domestic context

Approved at Faculty Board March 2017

Course structure

Level 1

ADD101Design Thinking

ADD105Design Fundamentals [replaces ADD102]

ADT102Interaction Design [replaces ADD103]

SIT120Introduction to Responsive Web Apps

SIT111Computer Systems [replaces SIT124]

SIT124 Exploring I.T. [No longer available for enrolment, replacement unit SIT111]

Level 2

ADD207Environmental Design [replaces ADD203]

ADD209Design Laboratory [previously ADD104]

ADT201Digital Experience Design

ADT202Web and Interface Design [previously ADD201, replaces ADV205]

SIT253Content Creation for Interactive Experiences

ADD203 Professional Practice in Design [No longer available for enrolment, replacement ADD207]

ADV205 Designing User Experience [No longer available for enrolment, replacement ADT202]

Level 3

ADD305Strategic Design Studio [replaces ADD301]

ACC302Advertising: Desire, Consumption and the Attention Economy [replaces ADD301]

ADD303Design for Change

ADD306Creative Design Studio [replaces ADD304]

ALM305Media Ecologies [replaces ADD304]

SIT317Information Technology Innovations and Entrepreneurship

Plus 1 level 3 general elective

ADD301 Collaborative Design Project [2 credit points, no longer available for enrolment, replacement units ADD305 & ACC302]

ADD302 Individual Design Portfolio [no longer available for enrolment, replacement unit level 3 general elective]

ADD304 Creative Design Studio [2 credit points, no longer available for enrolment, replacement units ADD306 & ALM305]

 

Course electives

Plus 2 credit points selected from:

ADA102Designing 3D Animated Environments

IND101Introduction to Aboriginal Studies

SIT102Introduction to Programming

SIT122Robotics Studio

SIT183Interactive Application Design for Virtual and Augmented Reality

ADA101 Designing 3D Motion [No longer available for enrolment]

SIT123 Data Capture Technologies [No longer available for enrolment]

Plus 5 credit points of open elective units

Fees and charges

Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, and their study discipline or your study load.

Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.

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