MASTER OF DESIGN

Want to progress to senior roles within the design industry worldwide?

Become an entrepreneurial, successful problem solver who can create and contribute to a variety of design solutions?

Then this program is for you.

The course delivery is blended with online and face-to-face subjects, providing a flexible learning environment, because we know you’re working in demanding roles that also take up your time.

In the core subjects, you’ll explore conceptual challenges and questions of visual expressions in your quest to develop useful, usable and appropriate designs for good.

You’ll explore aspects of the user experience, the role of design in humanising information, and the aesthetic and practical dynamics of effective communication and branding in the international industry landscape.

With a variety of electives to choose from, you can design your course to suit your interests.

Led by highly regarded design professionals, you’ll extend your managerial skills and practice;

build your understanding of strategic processes;

use creative tools and design research;

discover the convergent space between disciplines;

and explore the latest design theories, practice and innovation.

You’ll graduate with skills and knowledge that will take your career to the next level, no matter what field you’re in.

And if you wish, you can enter or exit with a Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma of Design.

CORE UNITS

• Design Content
• Design Identity

ELECTIVE UNITS

• PROJ6000 Principles of Project Management
• Sustainability in Project, Portfolio & Program Management
• PROJ6004 Contracts and Procurement
• Management Information Systems
• Management Perspectives
• MGT601 Dynamic Leadership
• Major project (Advanced)
• Design and Economies
• Research and Innovation
• Design Futures
• Social Enterprise
• Capstone Project

• Extend your managerial skills and practice
• Understanding of strategic processes, creative tools and design research
• Discover the convergent space between disciplines
• Explore the latest design theory, practice and innovation