Awards and Graduation
Progression
Design Studies subjects
Elective stream
Exchange
Assessment policy

The Bachelor of Design offers four distinct professional areas of specialisation:

• Fashion and Textile Design
• Industrial Design
• Interior Design, and
• Visual Communication.

Design students are required to undertake a Professional Core Program specific to each individual course, as well as elective studies or a sub-major to their degree. The four courses also share a number of subjects within the Design Studies strand.

The following regulations are to be read in conjunction with the University's Rules and By-law, as contained in the UTS: Calendar and online at:

www.uts.edu.au/div/publications/policies/index.html

These regulations relate to the majors in the Bachelor of Design course: Fashion and Textile Design; Industrial Design; Interior Design; and Visual Communication.

Awards and graduation

New course (phased in from 2003)

A student is deemed to have completed the educational requirements for the Bachelor of Design degree when he or she has achieved 192 credit points comprising the following:

• 138 credit points from the Professional Core Program
• 24 credit points of Elective subjects
• 30 credit points of Design Studies subjects.

Progression

A student must pass all prerequisites at one level of study before being eligible to proceed to the next level. This requirement may be varied with the approval of the Director of Program or the Responsible Academic Officer.

Design Studies subjects

All design students are required to undertake 30 credit points of Design Studies subjects offered by the Interdisciplinary Studies Unit. All subjects are 6 credit points and one semester in duration.

These subjects examine what is common to the different forms of designing and the interface between design and other disciplines and professions. They develop creative thinking within a critical framework. They foster openness to difference and alternative futures while establishing criteria for judgment about the value of designed proposals. They enhance students' abilities to work collaboratively and reflect individually. Through these subjects, students acquire an understanding of, and skills in, a range of design research:

1. research for design – investigating the cultural contexts of design problems and solutions
2. research of design – reflecting upon and explaining the nature of creative design processes
3. research by design – exploring and articulating what can be discovered about situations through designed interventions.

Not all subjects are offered every semester and are subject to change in 2004. Contact the Faculty for details.

85500 Creativity in Design
85502 Design History¹
85503 Thinking Design¹
85504 Design Ecology
85505 Design, Culture and Contemporary Thought
85506 Design and Asia
85507 Theories of Change
85508 Criticism and Argument
85700 Interdisciplinary Project

Footnotes:
1. This subject is undertaken in Year 1.

Elective stream

Students are required to undertake 24 credit points of elective subjects. This may be in the form of a sub-major – 24 credit points in a single specialist area – or freely chosen by students from a variety of electives offered by the different faculties in the University.

Design electives

Electives/sub-majors offered by the design programs are (all subjects are 6 credit points):
88304 Illustration 1
88404 Illustration 2
88504 Illustration 3
88604 Illustration 4
88305 Photography 1: Documentation, Introduction to Black and White Photography
88405 Photography 2: Communication, Intermediate Black and White Photography
88505 Photography 3: Fabrication, Introduction to Colour Photography
88605 Photography 4: Construction, Introduction to Studio Photography
88306 Textiles: Print
88406 Textiles: Alchemy
88506 Textiles: Form
88606 Textiles: Installation
88308 Introduction to Design for 2D Animation
88408 Advanced Design for 2D Animation
88503 Introduction to Production Design
88603 Advanced Production Design
88309 Transportation Design 1
88409 Transportation Design 2
88509 Transportation Design 3
88609 Transportation Design 4
88310 Design and Sustainable Human Futures 1
88410 Design and Sustainable Human Futures 2
88510 Design and Sustainable Human Futures 3
88610 Design and Sustainable Human Futures 4
88311 Furniture Design 1
88411 Furniture Design 2
88511 Furniture Design 3
88611 Furniture Design 4
88333 Design for Theatre – Contemporary
88444 Design for Theatre – Classics
88555 Design for Theatre – Special Performance
88666 Design for Theatre – Self-devised Project
88323 Exhibition Design – Practice
88424 Exhibition Design – Concepts and Strategies
88525 Exhibition Design – Process-based Project
88626 Exhibition Design – Methods of Interpretation Project
88330 Cinema and Design to 1960
88430 Cinema and Design from 1960
88100 Object and Accessory Design 1
88200 Object and Accessory Design 2

Exchange

The Design programs offer students opportunities to undertake concurrent study at approved institutions overseas. The Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building has a Memorandum of Understanding with institutions in Canada, Germany, Japan, Korea and the United Kingdom. The following subject is used for concurrent studies overseas:

89964 Concurrent Study Design

Assessment policy

This policy statement has been adopted in accordance with the University's policy on assessment. Successful implementation of this policy requires understanding, commitment and active participation in assessment processes by both students and staff. It is important that staff and students are familiar with the policy and that they work to ensure that assessment processes are conducted as consistently and fairly as possible.

The assessment period for the Bachelor of Design is one semester.

A semester program for each subject is provided to students by the third week of the semester. This program provides, in more detail than the subject description, an outline of the content, staffing, teaching/learning strategies, pattern of assignments, assignment weighting and basis of assessment planned for the semester. The basis for assessment is spelt out in the semester program for each subject. Attendance and participation in classes may be a prerequisite for a Pass assessment in all subjects. Achievement of a subject's aims becomes difficult if many lectures, seminars, tutorials or studio/workshop sessions are missed.

The assignment conditions set by the subject lecturer define, as necessary, the submission format, the submission deadline and the assessment criteria. The submission deadline is the date and time at which the assignment is due. Assignments are required to be delivered to the subject lecturer, or to the person nominated by the subject lecturer to accept submissions, before the deadline.

Late submissions are not accepted. The only exceptions to this policy can occur where prior arrangements have been made with the subject lecturer. Students are strongly advised, in their own interest, to make an incomplete submission on time rather than to seek acceptance of a late submission.

Incomplete assignment submissions will be accepted before the deadline and will be assessed, and any students who believe themselves to have been prevented by disability or misadventure from completing an assignment may attach to their submitted work a written explanation of the circumstances preventing completion.

Subject assessments are compiled by coordinating examiners, in consultation with staff teaching the subject and with the Director of Program. In the compilation of subject assessments, assignment marks are weighted to reflect the duration, importance and effectiveness, as a measure of competencies, of the various assignments. Each grade proposed is based upon a percentage score.

A Conceded Pass or R result can be awarded to a student by the Examination Review Committee. This is given to a student whose mark is just below the Pass/Fail boundary. In any one semester a student may be awarded one Conceded Pass only, and in order to be granted that, must have achieved passing grades in all other subjects attempted and a weighted average mark of 55 or greater in that assessment period.

The Examination Review Committee meets to consider consolidated results. Medical and other properly submitted evidence about factors affecting a student's performance plus records of absences and approved leave are considered. When approved and adopted by the Examination Review Committee, results become official and are released to students by the University's Student Administration Unit.