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Bachelor of Design
Minimum 3 years, up to a maximum of 7 years 
Hobart, Launceston
Minimum 3 years Hobart, Launceston 
CRICOS 098158A
Flexible studios and teaching spaces
Access cutting-edge studio spaces where your ideas will flourish and thrive.
Create design solutions for real clients.
Associate Degree and Bachelor students meet potential employers and gain valuable work experience through real-world industry and community projects.
Tasmania inspires your design learning experience.
Our inspiring landscapes, thriving creative scene, and entrepreneurial spirit all inform your studies to help your ideas flourish and thrive.
Imagine and create the future we want to live in
The Bachelor of Design is a future-focused course that teaches you how to prototype and test ideas in a participatory way to facilitate systemic, equitable and regenerative change.
You will study core units in design studio and design thinking, as well as history and ethics. These provide a solid foundation of creative process thinking that you can apply across any situation, helping bring your ideas to life. You will also study the Design Practices major, then customise your learning with one of our five contemporary design streams.
In the elective space of your degree you can choose to study more design units, or expand your knowledge across any discipline of the University. You can even pick up a second major to provide complementary skills.
Study options in this degree
A major is an area of focus in your degree. During your studies, you’ll study the Design Practices major, as well as a series of units in an area that interests you. You also have the option to study a second stream of specialist design units from this degree, or source a major from elsewhere in the University, such as the new major in Sustainability. Find out more at What is a Major?
Gain the professional knowledge and skills to work with teams or create your own business. Combine your creativity with key areas of business: project and event design, communications, and marketing.
Engage your creativity in the multidisciplinary practice of visual communication and pursue a career in traditional fields such as graphic design, or explore new horizons in contemporary spaces, galleries and interpretation sites.
Digital design is a rapidly expanding area as technology comes to pervade every aspect of our lives from websites, to computer programs, apps and games. Combine digital design with a second major in Games and Creative Technologies to extend knowledge and skills in the development of digital objects, or focus on the growing world of tech-embedded smart products, by combining Digital Design, Object Design, and electives in programming.
Pursue your passion for hands-on making and materials, while developing skills and knowledge in craft and digital fabrication processes and manufacturing. Perfect for a career in furniture and product design, and the design of wearable objects.
Combine knowledge and skills from the fields of architecture, interior, landscape and urban design to pursue careers in areas like exhibition and event design, or fabrication of pop-ups across a range of industries.
Find out more about what you'll study, entry requirements, fees and scholarships - and to apply.
Associate Degree in Applied Design
Minimum 2 years, up to a maximum of 5 years Hobart, Launceston
This course may not be available to international students. Please see our international page for courses that are offered to international students.
Career relevant practical learning
Flexible studios and teaching spaces offer creative environments for interactive learning utilising a range of modern and traditional equipment.
Create design solutions for real clients.
Meet potential employers and gain valuable work experience through real-world industry and community projects.
Tasmania inspires your design learning experience.
Our inspiring landscapes, thriving creative scene, and entrepreneurial spirit all inform your studies to help your ideas flourish and thrive.
Create change by applying hands-on design skills for positive impact
In this course you’ll combine foundational design knowledge in design thinking, processes, forms and language with a skills focus in one of three design streams: Communication, Digital and Business. You’ll engage with industry-connected projects, practices and expectations, and explore design ethics and histories to contextualise your design work.
Study options in this degree
A major is an area of focus in your degree. During your studies, you’ll choose an area that interests you, and then study a group of units related to that area. Find out more at What is a Major?
Gain the professional knowledge and skills to work with teams or create your own business. Combine your creativity with key areas of business: project and event design, communications, and marketing.
You can expand your education in this stream if you choose to continue your studies in the Bachelor of Design after graduation.
Engage your creativity in the multidisciplinary practice of visual communication and pursue a career in traditional fields such as graphic design, or explore new horizons in contemporary spaces, galleries and interpretation sites.
You can expand your education in this stream if you choose to continue your studies in the Bachelor of Design after graduation.
Create new virtual worlds and possibilities through learning about web and user experience design, interactive design, and combining your creativity with technology to enhance human experience and design possibilities.
You can expand your education in this stream if you choose to continue your studies in the Bachelor of Design after graduation.
Find out more about what you'll study, entry requirements, fees and scholarships - and to apply.
Undergraduate Certificate in Applied Design
Minimum 0.5 years, up to a maximum of 1 year Hobart, Launceston, online
This course may not be available to international students. Please see our international page for courses that are offered to international students.
Career relevant practical learning
Flexible studios and teaching spaces offer creative environments for interactive learning utilising a range of modern and traditional equipment.
Gain valuable work skills
Learn about design thinking and design processes, visual language and form, and strategies and tools for creative enterprise.
Commonwealth Supported Places available
Study with tuition fees subsidised by the Australian Government
Become a change agent in a constantly changing world
Design is at work in every aspect of human existence. We are inherently change agents and with a design education, you can make change towards creative adaptation and positive impact in our constantly changing world.
In this course we’ll guide you to work with design thinking and design processes, visual language and form, design for inclusive interactions, and strategies and tools for creative enterprise. By understanding major shifts in how design fields now operate, you’ll gain foundational design knowledge and a framework for identifying opportunities.
Find out more about what you'll study, entry requirements, fees and scholarships - and to apply.
Career opportunities
Careers relating to design are growing across many industries. Here are some of the top careers projected to grow in the next five years^.
- Co-Design
Co-design emphasises the process of design through the engagement of diverse stakeholders. This process is increasingly used by leading businesses, government departments, public institutions and community organisations to imagine and prioritise opportunities for transformation and development. As well as learning skills in creativity and collaboration developed in core studios, you might choose to combine units from business with other design streams to refine your skills in communication and stakeholder engagement. - Design Strategist
Be the strategic mind, unpack complex problems through research and empathy to identify the needs of people and living systems. Design strategists uncover insights in behaviour and environments and facilitate collaboration and change. They work across all sectors from the design of products to leading social and cultural change. - Event Design
Whether cultural festivals or corporate conferences, design is fundamental to the participant experience and success of events from initial planning and marketing to event production. Combine skills across business, spatial and communication design streams to become a leader in event design with a wealth of world class events on your doorstep. - Interaction Design
Encompassing UX Design (User Experience) and interface design, this is a growing field that emphasises the holistic experiences and interactions we have with products, systems and services to ensure that they are meaningful, accessible and functional. Interaction designers create a dialogue between the physical, emotional and environmental worlds across the entire user journey, from acquisition to use, maintenance or disposal. For this career path, we recommend focusing your studies on the design of physical objects or digital products. - Systems Design
In an increasingly complex and inter-connected world, the future is less defined by elements and more by their relationships. Systems design emphasises an understanding of processes and opportunities for transformation towards more efficient, robust and sustainable operations. Working across a wide variety of fields, we recommend combining business design with digital or spatial design, or a second major in sustainability.
19.4%
Fashion, Industrial
and Jewellery
Designers
Projected increase by 2025
12.9%
Graphic and Web
Designers, and
Illustrators
Projected increase by 2025
16.2%
Interior Designers
Projected increase by 2025
^ National Skills Commission five year projections from November 2020 to November 2025.
