F2025 Bachelor of Design and Bachelor of Global Studies

Double degree courses include the features of the component degree courses, except that electives may be reduced.

Design

The Bachelor of Design is a specialist course structured in four parts. In this double degree you complete:

Part A. Critical contexts

These studies will equip you with the skills necessary to research design issues that enable you to contextualise your own thinking and making in relation to the broader spectrum of global practices. These units will develop your ability to communicate ideas and strategies. Through the duel lens of historic and contemporary practice, you will begin to situate the place of design in society by referencing pivotal art, design and architecture movements. Later units address issues of culture, society and responsible design practices.

Part B. Disciplinary practices

This will assist you to develop the practical and intellectual skills required by art, design and architecture students in the discipline of drawing. This will introduce you to occupational health, safety and environmental training particularly within the context of studying art, design and architecture.

Part C. Studio practices

This is the component of the course through which you will develop key skills and concepts particular to your design discipline.

In the collaborative design studio units you will create purposeful responses to contemporary social, cultural, and environmental challenges by employing co-design principles, mindsets, and methods. You will explore the specialist and transferable characteristics of collaborative design through simple and complex challenges. Through thematic-based projects, you’ll discover Design as a catalyst for collaboration, curiosity, learning, and impactful action. By immersing yourself in these studio units, you will experience the intersection of creativity and collaboration, and experience design as a relational, social, cultural and political practice with tangible impact.

In the communication design studio units you will undertake an exploration of traditional and emergent media and communication processes. You will learn to engage with and manipulate core design elements including typography, imagery, two and three-dimensional artefacts, interactivity, sound and motion, as key components to communication design solutions. Studio-based projects across both print and digital media platforms will develop skills in narrative story-telling, visible language, image construction and manipulation, interactive communication processes, production methods and technologies, and the planning and management of design outcomes.

In the industrial design studio units you will undertake a focused exploration of the range of issues, skills and techniques vital to the realisation of resolved product and object design. The studio units introduce you to the elements of industrial design including usability, form language and manufacturing. By carrying out industrial design projects, you will learn and apply skills in visualisation, interface design, model making, ergonomics, materials, manufacturing and production methods and technologies.

The spatial design studio units provide the opportunity to experiment with creative ideas while gaining an advanced understanding of the principles of spatial design. You will learn to translate your 2 dimensional concepts into 3 dimensional installations. Studio projects range from real client briefs involving cultural, commercial and community organisations to more speculative briefs that explore the opportunities and challenges of a continually transforming contemporary society. Through the sequence of studio units you will learn to create unique spaces and also how to adapt existing spaces to reflect your design ideas.

Global Studies

The Bachelor of Global Studies is a specialist course structured in five parts. In this double degree you complete:

Part A. Core studies and Part B. Global mobility 

You will compare and contrast a range of global challenges and solutions in different historical, linguistic, cultural, and geographical settings, focussing especially on developing an understanding of effective collaboration, communication and leadership across a range of contexts.

Part C. Language studies

The world is multilingual. Studying other languages will help you understand your own place in the global landscape as well as improving your resilience and capacity to embrace uncertainty and complexity. You may continue with a language you have studied previously, or experiment with beginner's level units in any of the eight Asian and European languages offered in the Faculty of Arts. Alternatively, explore units focusing on indigenous languages, literary cultures and global varieties of English.

Part D. Discipline elective studies

You will gain in-depth knowledge of a specific facet or facets of global studies through units grounded in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. These units will provide you with the practical and theoretical skills needed to critically analyse, communicate and formulate innovative solutions to global challenges.

Course progression map

The course progression map provides guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

You must complete 192 credit points, of which 96 credit points are from the Bachelor of Design (including all the requirements in Part A, B and C for the single degree) and 96 credit points from the Bachelor of Global Studies (including all the requirements in Part A, B, C and D for the single degree).