This program will fine tune your creative abilities  with our state-of-the-art studios, labs, and maker spaces. Industry experts will guide you through practical, real-world tasks.

This hands-on  experience will ready you for the fluid and rapidly changing design industries. You will graduate with a portfolio reflecting both your creative vision and broad media abilities.

This program will give  you the tools to bring your ideas to life. You will foster creativity and promote adaptability in the fast-paced world of art and media. By integrating visual and design learning, you'll be well positioned to carve out a unique creative  path or contribute to diverse organisations worldwide.

Specialise in the following majors:

• graphic design and illustration
• animation and interaction

You’ll learn to create visual material across a variety of visual formats and channels including broadcast, web, film, television, advertising, publishing, and industry.

This program allows you to specialise in one or two majors. Depending on your chosen major, examples of what you will study include:

• graphic design
• web design
• advertising
• publishing
• illustration
• animation
• transmedia
• multi-media
• creative arts
• motion graphics
• interaction design
• game art and design typography
• 3D design
• extended reality

Core Courses:

Complete the following core courses to fulfil the requirements of this program.

• Creative Collaborations
• Design Thinking and Innovation
• Storytelling in Transmedia Practice
• Strategic Creativity
• Studio Q
• The Design Process in Theory and Professional Practice
• Visual Design Principles
• Visual Design Projects

These are courses currently available in "Core Courses", for full requirements and availability always refer to the handbook.

2024 Program Handbook:

The courses shown above are a guide, and don't reflect the exact year-by-year structure of the program, you should always refer to the program handbook for details of the complete program structure, course requirements and availability.

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You will find employment in a variety of roles in many different types of organisations. The list below provides typical job titles for Visual Communication Design graduates.

Professional outcomes

• graphic designer
• creative director
• art director
• exhibition designer
• motion graphic designer
• publication designer

Admission to our undergraduate degree programs usually requires successful completion of a senior secondary school qualification similar to the Higher School Certificate (HSC).

TOEFL paper-based test score of 500;

TOEFL internet based score of 60;

IELTS (Academic) score of 6.0;

PTE GSE score of 50;

Cambridge English: Advanced score of 52.