Bachelor of Design
University of Tasmania - Hobart
Overview
This degree invites you to take part in the redefinition of what design means for Tasmania. Our goal is to embed design within the working fabric of the state, to realise a design-led Tasmania. We believe that design expands beyond objects and interfaces, to interactions and systems.
With renowned designers, creative people, inspiring places and events on your doorstep, Tasmania is the ideal place to study design.
Design permeates every aspect of our lives, we embrace the complexity that it entails. Our design courses will expand your understanding of the world as you learn how to create positive impacts through design. Discover how to inspire others to tell their stories, learn to visualise complex information and data, undertake research and prototyping to meet community needs, or design events and experiences that inspire those around you.
The Bachelor of Design offers the greatest flexibility, with the opportunity to take up to three complete design streams, a second major from another discipline, or even a double degree.
Core Design Studio units emphasise hands-on learning through collaboration with peers, designers and external stakeholders and the creative development and application of knowledge and skills from your selected design streams in a variety of contexts and project briefs.
Combined with design thinking, visualisation and knowledge of design history and ethics, and the opportunity to develop your own projects in the final year, you will graduate with transferable skills that open diverse career pathways in a huge range of industries. The Bachelor of Design also offers a pathway to post-graduate study through Honours and PhD.
Potential Career Outcomes
As well as traditional design disciplines such as graphic design, furniture and product design, and brand design there are a wealth of career options in design, along with opportunities to become an embedded creative in a wide range of industries. Here are a just a few opportunities.
Interaction Design
Interaction design encompasses UX Design (User Experience) and interface design, a growing field that emphasises the holistic experiences and interactions we have with products, systems, and services. For this career path, we recommend focusing your studies on the design of physical objects and digital products. You could also incorporate units from business or spatial design for broader understanding of systems and services.
Digital Product Design
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.
Exhibition Design
Exhibition design emphasises visual storytelling through a wide range of techniques. This may include the display of objects, engagement with digital information, or crafting spatial experiences. Inherently multi-disciplinary in nature, for careers in this area we recommend combining spatial and object design with units from digital and communication design streams to develop a broad design skill set.
Your choice of subjects can path your way to diverse career options. If you have a specific career outcome in mind, our Course Coordinators can assist you to identify choices that are right for you.
Postgraduate study
If you successfully complete this course, you may be also be eligible to apply for a range of other postgraduate courses including Graduate Certificates and Graduate Diplomas and Masters by coursework and research. Filter the course list by Postgraduate to view the current courses available.
ATAR & Selection Rank
The table below shows the ATAR and Selection Rank information for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in 2022.
| ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds | ATAR (excluding adjustment factors) | Selection Rank (including adjustment factors) |
|---|---|---|
| Highest rank to receive an offer | 96.4 | 96.4 |
| Median rank to receive an offer | 69.65 | 69.65 |
| Lowest rank to receive an offer | 42.9 | 42.9 |
<5 - Less than 5 ATAR-based offers were made
Admission Criteria
Please refer to the University of Tasmania website for admission criteria information.
This information is sourced from Course Seeker, a joint initiative between the Australian Government and the Tertiary Admission Centres. View more information on Course Seeker.
University
University of Tasmania
Campus
Hobart
Course Type
Bachelors Degree
Study Area
Arts
Indicative ATAR
42.90
Delivery Mode
On-campus
Duration
Full-time: 3 years, Part-time: Available
Course Link
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- State
- TAS
- Type
- University
- Courses
- 242
- Campuses
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Australian Maritime College, Launceston Cradle Coast Hobart Sydney
Please note that these statistics simply refer to the information we have in our database. This is not an exhaustive list of courses offered at University of Tasmania. Please refer to the institution's website for the most current information.
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