Bachelor of Design (Digital Technologies)

2024 Deakin University Handbook

Year

2024 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

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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 by Faculty Board March 2017

Course rules

To qualify for the award of Bachelor of Design (Digital Technologies) a student must complete 24 credit points including:

  • 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
  • AAI018 Academic Integrity (0-credit-point compulsory unit)

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

ADD301Collaborative Design Project (2 credit points)

ADD302Individual Design Portfolio

ADD303Design for Change

ADD304Creative Design Studio (2 credit points)

SIT317Information Technology Innovations and Entrepreneurship

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