C09061v1 Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Visual Communication
Award(s): Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Visual Communication (BDesign(Hons))CRICOS code: 077340K
Commonwealth supported place?: Yes
Load credit points: 48
Course EFTSL: 1
Location: City campus
Notes
The first intake for this course will be in 2016.
Overview
Course aims
Career options
Admission requirements
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Course program
Other information
Overview
In the Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication students learn how to create visual messages and experiences that communicate information and ideas across many mediums.
The course allows students to experiment with both traditional and emerging design practices, and develop a visual language that allows them to work across digital, physical and analogue media. This visual language is broad, encompassing typography, interaction and image-making.
This degree prepares students for the evolving nature of design by engaging with the social, technological and ecological context of design practice.
Graduates are industry-ready, thanks to their ability to articulate design practices and process, the degree's internship program, and the curriculum's emphasis on real-world problem solving.
Course aims
The degree has a hands-on, studio-based culture that is supported by a strong theoretical component. Academics encourage both traditional and experimental research methods to help students make work that is conceptually rigorous and socially responsive.
Offering a variety of interdisciplinary subjects, graduates are able to move into their professional lives with the diverse knowledge and skills required to work collaboratively and across disciplines. All students work with industry clients on real-world projects and undertake work experience during their degree.
Career options
There are many career options in a range of fields for graduates, such as digital media, publication designer, graphic designer, interactive media designer, web designer, branding specialist, art director, motion graphics designer, advertising, illustrator, and exhibition designer. Graduates are also equipped with the skills to become writers, researchers, editors and critics, and to apply design thinking in a non-design industry business.
Admission requirements
Applicants must have completed a UTS recognised bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline at an appropriate level.
Students must refer to the inherent requirements for all degrees offered by Design and Architecture in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.
The English proficiency requirement for international students or local applicants with international qualifications is: Academic IELTS: 6.5 overall with a writing score of 6.0; or TOEFL: paper based: 550-583 overall with TWE of 4.5, internet based: 79-93 overall with a writing score of 21; or AE5: Pass; or PTE: 58-64; or CAE: 176-184
Eligibility for admission does not guarantee offer of a place.
Local students
External local applicants must also attend an interview with the program director. Academic transcripts and portfolio are required at the interview.
Internal UTS applicants require a weighted average mark of at least 72.5 across the three years of the Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication (C10308) to secure guaranteed entry. A student with a weighted average mark of above 70 can enrol in the course with the permission of the program director.
International students
International applicants must also attend an interview (via Skype) with the program director. Digital copies of both the academic transcripts and portfolio must be sent to the program director prior to the interview.
Visa requirement: To obtain a student visa to study in Australia, international students must enrol full time and on campus. Australian student visa regulations also require international students studying on student visas to complete the course within the standard full-time duration. Students can extend their courses only in exceptional circumstances.
Course duration and attendance
The course is offered on a one-year, full-time basis. Students may study this program part time after consultation with the program director.
Course structure
Students must complete 48 credit points of honours subjects including a 24-credit-point major project.
Course completion requirements
| 87931 Researching: Contexts | 6cp | |
| 87932 Researching: Materials | 6cp | |
| 87933 Critical Practice: Exploration | 12cp | |
| 87900 Critical Practice: Realisation | 24cp | |
| Total | 48cp |
Course program
The typical course program is shown below.
| Year 1 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 87931 Researching: Contexts | 6cp | |
| 87932 Researching: Materials | 6cp | |
| 87933 Critical Practice: Exploration | 12cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 87900 Critical Practice: Realisation | 24cp | |
Other information
Further information is available from the UTS Student Centre on:
telephone 1300 ask UTS (1300 275 887)
or +61 2 9514 1222
Ask UTS
UTS: Design, Architecture and Building
