Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication)

2024 Deakin University Handbook

Year	2024 course information
Award granted	Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication)
Deakin course code	A345
Faculty	Faculty of Arts and Education
Campus	Offered at Burwood (Melbourne), Waterfront (Geelong) For students who commenced prior to 2023 only
Duration	3 years full-time or part-time equivalent
Course Map - enrolment planning tool	Course maps for commencement in previous years are available on the Course Maps webpage or please contact a Student Adviser in Student Central.
CRICOS course code	095257M Burwood (Melbourne), Waterfront (Geelong)
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	Develop theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the forms, functions, processes, languages and materials of visual communication design. Developing the capacity to meet client requirements in a rapidly changing industry setting.
Communication	Effectively communicate ideas using specific language, concepts and media to transmit ideas in response to design briefs.
Digital literacy	Utilize theoretical knowledge and practical skills with digital technologies to achieve user experience design outcomes.
Critical thinking	Acquire skills in critical thinking and the analytical evaluation of design. Critically engaging a range of strategies to achieve professional industry based outcomes.
Problem solving	Utilize design thinking methods to empathise, analyse, ideate, prototype and test complex and ill-defined problems.
Self-management	Initiate autonomous and self-directed management techniques; demonstrating professional responsibility and accountability to a wide range of design projects.
Teamwork	Lead, deliver and perform within a collaborative professional team to deliver industry standard outcomes.
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