Australian National University
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Courses included
The Bachelor of Design critically engages with a diverse set of concepts and practices that give students creative agency to respond to our world’s wicked problems. Courses offered in the program encourage research-driven approaches and partnerships with industry to prepare students with transferable knowledge and skills required to engage sustainably and ethically in a rapidly changing world.
The Bachelor of Design combines cutting-edge digital practices with internationally renowned studio disciplines, allowing students to develop agile approaches to design futures.
Students benefit from deep immersion in digital, practical and theoretical modalities. They engage with wide-ranging perspectives of creative practices to forge their own unique path to becoming designers. From coding, to making, to manufacture, students apply hands-on design to digital and physical materials. Students delve into a wide range of fields from visual communication and web design, data visualisation, and interaction design, object design, user experience design, 3D fabrication, service design, sustainable design, design thinking, to strategic design, they experiment in studios to develop expertise in contemporary approaches.
Animation, ceramics, creative code, data visualisation, design, front-end web design, furniture, glass, gold and silversmithing, graphic design, photography, printmaking, product design, textiles, user-experience design, video, visual communication.
Careers in fields including object design, visual communication, data visualisation, user experience design, graphic design, web design, interface design, design thinking and strategic design.
Available as an additional year, subject to progress requirements.
The Australian Government pays part of the tuition fee for this course. The remaining balance is paid by the student. Information about ANU student contributions.
Year 12 qualification: ACT Senior Secondary Certificate or NSW HSC, or equivalent.
Portfolio and interview: Entry is based on meeting both the minimum qualification requirement and a successful assessment of suitability via an interview and portfolio assessment.
In addition to submitting a UAC application, you must register for an interview. Application steps and closing dates.
Refer to the ANU general admission criteria.
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Combined options
ANU flexible double degree options allow you to create your own study program.