Bachelor of Design (Digital Technologies)
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2026 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Bachelor of Design (Digital Technologies) |
| Deakin course code | A344 |
| Course Credit Points | 24 |
| Course version | 1 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Course Information | For students who commenced from 2018 to 2022 |
| Final Intake | Offered to continuing students only. The final intake to this course was in teaching period 3, 2022. Students should contact Student Central for course, course map and enrolment information. |
| Duration | 3 years full-time or part-time equivalent |
| CRICOS code | 095256A |
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 rules
To complete the Bachelor of Design (Digital Technologies) you must pass 24 credit points. This includes:
- DAI001 Academic Integrity Module (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in your first study period
- 17 credit points of core units
- 2 credit points of course elective units
- 5 credit points of open elective units
- No more than 10 credit points at level 1
- Minimum of 6 credit points at level 3.
Most units are equal to one credit point. As a full-time student you will study four credit points per trimester and usually undertake two trimesters per year.
Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements.
Course structure
Level 1
| ADD101 | Design and Creative Thinking |
| ADD105 | Design Fundamentals |
| ADT102 | Interaction and UX Design Fundamentals |
| SIT120 | Introduction to Responsive Web Apps |
| SIT111 | Computer Systems |
ADD102 Design Skills and Technologies 1 [No longer available for enrolment, ADD105 replaces this unit]
ADD103 Animation Project [No longer available for enrolment, ADT102 replaces this unit]
SIT124 Exploring I.T. [No longer available for enrolment, SIT111 replaces this unit]
Level 2
| ADD204 | Brand and Product Design |
| ADT201 | Digital Experience Design |
| ADT202 | Web and Interface Design |
| SIT253 | Content Creation for Interactive Experiences |
ADD203 Professional Practice in Design [No longer available for enrolment, ADD207 previously replaced this unit]
ADD207 Environmental Design [no longer available for enrolment]
ADV205 Designing User Experience [No longer available for enrolment, previously ADD201, ADT202 replaces this unit]
ADD209 Design Laboratory [no longer available for enrolment, ADD204 replaces this unit]
Level 3
| ADD305 | Strategic Design Studio |
| ACC302 | Advertising: Desire, Consumption and the Attention Economy |
| ADD306 | Creative Design Studio |
| ALM305 | Media Ecologies |
| SIT317 | Information Technology Innovations and Entrepreneurship |
Plus 1 level 3 general elective
ADD303 Design for Change [No longer available for enrolment]
ADD301 Collaborative Design Project [2 credit points, no longer available for enrolment, ADD305 & ACC302 replace this unit]
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, ADD306 & ALM305 replace this unit]
Course electives
Plus 2 credit points selected from:
| ADA102 | Designing 3D Animated Environments |
| IND101 | Introduction to Aboriginal Studies |
| SIT102 | Introduction to Programming |
| SIT122 | Robotics Studio |
| SIT183 | Interactive 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
Tuition fees will vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, your study load and/or unit discipline.
Your tuition fees will increase annually at the start of each calendar year. All fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD) and do not include additional costs such as textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment, mandatory checks, travel, consumables and other costs.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.