Master of Design
Master of Design
Overview This intensive program provides a pathway to advanced industry opportunities, whether you have a background in design and media practice or if you wish to enter these fields from other professional backgrounds. Our degree focuses on integrated and multidisciplinary studios that will underpin the development of professional skills, capabilities…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Overview
This intensive program provides a pathway to advanced industry opportunities, whether you have a background in design and media practice or if you wish to enter these fields from other professional backgrounds. Our degree focuses on integrated and multidisciplinary studios that will underpin the development of professional skills, capabilities and confidence needed for leadership and to dynamically support innovation in freelance, project or design, media and technology business contexts.
Studio-based courses enable you to focus on a specific area of design and digital media practice or put together a suite of courses from across design, material practice and digital media.
Key features
Specialised Studio Practice
Our program allows you to focus your studio-based courses on a specific area of design and digital media or to put together a broad suite of studio courses. Areas of practice include Graphic Communication, Spatial Experiences, Interaction and User Experience (UX) Design, Visualisation and Visual Effects and Future Making: Materials and Objects.
Contemporary Design Contexts
Alongside your studio-based courses, you’ll establish a strong foundation in integrated technology, design thinking, experimentation, strategy and communication. You’ll develop a deep and critical understanding of the role design can play in innovation, the economy and solving global challenges.
Future careers
UNSW’s Masters of Design graduates are highly sought after across a broad range of professional design disciplines in media and technology industries, global institutions, major corporations, creative and bespoke agencies.
Potential careers
Masters graduates secure employment in areas including:
Graphics, media and digital design
UX, responsive design?and app development
Communications, branding and advertising
Design management and strategy
Social innovation and entrepreneurship
Data visualisation and animation
Creative consultancies, design and media studios, design-led businesses
Object, furniture and lighting design
Film, television, online and mobile production and post-production
Environmental, spatial, interior and architectural design practices
Design for retailing, industry events and expos
Design for exhibitions, galleries and museums
Costume, theatre and events design
Design teaching and academia
Jewellery and wearables design
Textile, fabric and fashion design
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
The University of South Australia is a globally connected and engaged university with industry-informed teaching and research that is inventive and adventurous. Ranked in the world’s top 50 under 50^ and with 100% of assessed research rated at or above world-class*, the University is young, innovative and offers students the chance to gain real-world experience.Focused on life beyond the classroom, the University of South Australia offers a practical approach to teaching and learning. Degrees are designed in partnership with industry, giving students opportunities to gain the latest insights and trends and ensuring they graduate career ready.^Ranked in the World’s Top 50 Under 50 – Ranked #29, 2021 QS Top 50 Universities Aged Under 50 and Ranked #46, 2022 THE Young University Rankings*2018 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), 4-digit Fields of Research
