Bachelor of Design (Digital Technologies)
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2025 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Bachelor of Design (Digital Technologies) |
| Deakin course code | A344 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Campus | Offered at Burwood (Melbourne) For students who commenced prior to 2023 only |
| Duration | 3 years full-time or part-time equivalent |
| CRICOS course code | 095256A 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
| ADD101 | Design Thinking |
| ADD105 | Design Fundamentals [replaces ADD102] |
| ADT102 | Interaction Design [replaces ADD103] |
| SIT120 | Introduction to Responsive Web Apps |
| SIT111 | Computer Systems [replaces SIT124] |
SIT124 Exploring I.T. [No longer available for enrolment, replacement unit SIT111]
Level 2
| ADD207 | Environmental Design [replaces ADD203] |
| ADD209 | Design Laboratory [previously ADD104] |
| ADT201 | Digital Experience Design |
| ADT202 | Web and Interface Design [previously ADD201, replaces ADV205] |
| SIT253 | Content 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
| ADD305 | Strategic Design Studio [replaces ADD301] |
| ACC302 | Advertising: Desire, Consumption and the Attention Economy [replaces ADD301] |
| ADD303 | Design for Change |
| ADD306 | Creative Design Studio [replaces ADD304] |
| ALM305 | Media Ecologies [replaces ADD304] |
| SIT317 | Information 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:
| 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
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.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.