Graduate Certificate of Architectural Design

2025 Deakin University Handbook

Year	2025 course information
Award granted	Graduate Certificate of Architectural Design
Deakin course code	S541
Faculty	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
Campus	This course is an exit option only
Duration	0.5 year full-time or part-time equivalent
Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition	The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 8
This course is an exit point only from S700 Master of Architecture

Course sub-headings

Course overview

The Graduate Certificate of Architectural Design is available as an exit option from the Master of Architecture. You will expand your knowledge in architecture, design and innovative strategies through creativity. You will l have access to Deakin’s impressive a+b studio, providing an open plan space to work collaboratively and develop your projects.

Fabricate models in our state-of-the-art architecture workshop and experiment with technology, materials and processes. The workshop is fully equipped with 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC routers and traditional tools and machinery.

Graduates of the Certificate of Architectural Design may find employment opportunities in private architectural practices, government organisations and private companies in property development, building and design.

Course Learning Outcomes

Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes	Course Learning Outcomes
Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities	Create an architectural design through the exercise of knowledge, imagination and judgement in the context of economic, social, cultural and environmental responsibility.
Communication	Communicate clearly, professionally and responsibly in a variety of interpersonal contexts using oral, written and visual communication modes to inform, motivate and persuade specialist and non-specialist audiences about architectural ideas, decisions and predicted built outcomes.
Digital literacy	Apply well-developed research, ideation and technical information literacy skills to independently locate, interpret and evaluate information content in a digital world.
Critical thinking	Selectively use linear, critical, logical and/or lateral mechanisms to analyse different forms of information; manipulate and transform information to propose possible solutions.
Problem solving	Effectively research and identify theoretical, cultural, social, technical and environmental architectural problems to establish a sound basis for project inception in familiar and unfamiliar contexts.
Self-management	Accumulate and document specialist knowledge of architecture theories, processes and practice using the frameworks of methodical research, creative activity and capacity for reflection.
Teamwork	Apply interpersonal skills to interact contribute and collaborate in team learning activities and to enhance project potential through shared individual and collective knowledge and creative capacity to optimise complex problem resolution.
Global citizenship	Formulate architectural responses through concern for economic, cultural, social and ethical values inherent in human landscape while consciously integrating quantitative and qualitative perspectives.

Course rules

To complete the Graduate Certificate of Architecture students must pass 4 credit points and meet the following course rules to be eligible to graduate:

DAI001 Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in their first study period
SRA710 Safety Induction Program (0-credit-point compulsory unit)
4 credit points of core units

Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements. See the enrolment codes and terminology to help make sense of the University’s vocabulary.