The Bachelor of Design/Bachelor of Media and Communication is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to harness creativity in design, and bring designs to life in professional communication industries.

Students will gain in-depth knowledge across the discipline of design, as well as additional skills in management, writing, business, media planning and more – making graduates well-prepared for a wide variety of both creative and managerial opportunities in creative communications and media.

All our bachelor degrees include a guaranteed Work Integrated Learning opportunity, which could be a placement, internship or industry-linked project. In this double degree, you’ll work on industry-linked projects relevant to your major areas of study.

Course learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course the student will be able to:

• Bachelor of Design - Demonstrate knowledge and cognitive skills to review critically, analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge and apply this with initiative and judgement in planning, problem solving and decision making in professional practice and/or scholarship
• Bachelor of Design - Demonstrate technical and practical skills, and a broad understanding of key concepts in their chosen field of study
• Bachelor of Design - Demonstrate knowledge and cognitive and creative skills to exercise critical thinking and judgment in identifying and solving problems independently and collaboratively, in diverse contexts
• Bachelor of Design - Apply communication skills to present a clear, coherent and independent exposition of knowledge and ideas to different audiences and stakeholders
• Bachelor of Design - Apply cognitive and technical skills and to principles of sustainability and respectful design to their knowledge and development of their design solution with responsibility and accountability
• Bachelor of Design - Exercise organisational and leadership skills, and demonstrate the ability to plan and execute a project and/or piece of research with groups that may include academics, industry professionals and students
• Bachelor of Media and Communication - Identify and contextualise the impacts of digital transformation on media and communication industries, audiences and professional and creative practices
• Bachelor of Media and Communication - Analyse diverse socio-cultural influences on media and communication practices and their impact on audiences in Indigenous, local and global contexts
• Bachelor of Media and Communication - Demonstrate critical thinking, including theoretical, practice-led and decolonised approaches, within a specialised media and communication discipline
• Bachelor of Media and Communication - Initiate professional approaches to planning, problem-solving and decision-making in a range of media and communication activities and processes, both individually and in collaboration with others
• Bachelor of Media and Communication - Design creative and professional media and communication artefacts that focus on examining the relationship between people and technology for social impact
• Bachelor of Media and Communication - Explore innovative use of new media and communication technologies to engage, influence and build communities for next generation media futures
• Bachelor of Media and Communication - Engage ethical approaches to research methodologies for socially responsible, just and fair content creation strategies
• Bachelor of Media and Communication - Apply learning from Indigenous, global and cross-cultural communication contexts to support accountability, self-assessment and independence in lifelong learning