Units
The individual subjects inside each degree: what’s taught, how it’s assessed, and when it runs.
4,303 units
| Code | Unit | Faculty | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| DDD30011 | Compositing for Visual Effects This unit delivers advanced software technique for compositing photographic images. Students explore digital image compositing through investigative and experimental frameworks in order to discover, practice and understand technique. Buildi… | Design | 3 |
| DDD30013 | Publication Design This unit explores the formal, organisational, and craft aspects of publication design to enable innovative and experimental typographic and publication design. The emphasis will be on critical thinking, advanced visualisation and the appli… | Design | 3 |
| DDD30015 | Visual Storytelling This unit enables students to extend their skills acquired in previous units of study and apply them to complex communication problems. Students will extend their skills with advanced exploration and use of image making and photomedia techn… | Design | 3 |
| DDD30020 | Interaction Design for Mobile Devices This unit of study aims to introduce fundamental design and technical methodologies in designing interactive outcomes for mobile devices. Students will identify and apply industry best-practice to inform project development. This knowledge… | Design | 3 |
| DDD30022 | Motion Graphics Project This unit of study aims to integrate motion graphic techniques to create an advanced motion graphics outcome. Students will identify and apply industry best practice to inform project development; this knowledge may be applied to commercial… | Design | 3 |
| DDD30036 | Professional Attributes for Design This unit aims to develop students' professional attributes and fine-tune their industry and design skills in preparation for graduate employment. It will provide students with an opportunity to improve their entrepreneurial skills, develop… | Design | 3 |
| DDD30038 | Project Management and Practice This unit will assist students to enhance their professional skills and knowledge in relation to the practice of design. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the many management issues relating to design projects. They will closely… | Design | 3 |
| DDD30042 | Photomedia Capstone Project In this unit students explore new opportunities for photomedia practice through research, development and application of concepts, skills and knowledge acquired in previous units. Students will be expected to articulate complex visual ideas… | Design | 3 |
| DDD30046 | Commercial Photography on Location This unit gives students an understanding of the different lighting methods required for location photography. New lighting techniques specifically for location purposes will be introduced and explored. Students will learn the different lig… | Design | 3 |
| DDD30048 | Communication Design Strategy This unit requires students to develop a strategic communication design project from initiation, design production and evaluation. Students will synthesise knowledge from design research methods, critical theory and design practice to exami… | Design | 3 |
| DDD30051 | Wearable Technology Design Studio Fashion is a dynamic sector that is in constant flux. This unit will advance understanding of new technologies and apply them to wearable textile and fashion outcomes. Fashion items such as, technology-enabled wearable garments, smart jewel… | Design | 3 |
| DDD30053 | Fashion Design Capstone This unit serves as the culmination of the students' academic studies, merging their research, design and practical skills in a presentation of their design collection and a portfolio of work that meets a professional standard. Students wil… | Design | 3 |
| DDD30054 | Professional Fashion Practice Fashion professional practice spans various industry sectors well beyond garment production. In this unit, students will explore these varied employment opportunities by collaborating with an industry-engaged project. Students will mirror i… | Design | 3 |
| DDD40001 | Methods for Design Research This unit prepares students for creative and qualitative research in academic and practical contexts. It introduces principles and methods for qualitative data collection, analysis, and the generation of reliable knowledge to tackle complex… | Design | 4 |
| DDD40002 | Design-Led Innovation: Research Project Students engage in research approaches that are relevant to contemporary communication design practice. The aim is to equip students with methods and processes that enable them to interrogate the role and significance of communication desig… | Design | 4 |
| DDD40016 | Bureau: Industry Projects This unit is designed to deepen students’ understanding of professional design practice while cultivating advanced employability skills. Through an internship hosted by Swinburne University, students will engage in directed, experiential le… | Design | 4 |
| DDD60030 | DFM: Design Innovation and Disruption This unit builds creative confidence; advancing skills in design thinking, innovation mind-set, prototyping and developing holistic design solutions, while exploring theories and ethics underpinning design innovation practices. It features… | Design | 6 |
| DDD70031 | DFM: Designing Futures This unit develops expertise in applying innovation methods to create meaningful design solutions; advancing skills in conceptual thinking, experimentation, prototyping and co-creation. It features industry and/or Design Factory Global Netw… | Design | 7 |
| DDM20003 | Digital Video Camera Techniques This unit introduces students to the basic principles of digital video camera technology, industry terminology and the art of cinematography. Students will develop camera movement and production lighting skills as well as an introduction to… | Design | 2 |
| DDM30005 | Motion Design New Technologies This unit provides advanced skills in specialised software related to Motion Design practice. Through practical tasks and critical exploration of the relationship between design concepts and software capabilities, students will extend their… | Design | 3 |
| DES30061 | Industry Placement 1 This unit builds students' knowledge and academic performance by offering experiential, discipline-specific learning through an Industry Placement. Students will be given opportunities to apply and develop existing design skills, experience… | Design | 3 |
| DES30062 | Industry Placement 2 This unit further extends students' practical knowledge and academic performance by offering experiential, discipline-specific learning through an Industry Placement. It provides students with opportunities to refine advanced design skills… | Design | 3 |
| DEV2011 | Early human development from cells to tissues Developmental biology encompasses numerous disciplines, including embryology, anatomy, molecular and cellular biology, as well as evolution and genetics. This unit covers the key events involved in early human development, including gametog… | Science | 2 |
| DEV2022 | Human anatomy and development: Tissues and body systems This unit investigates the structure of the human body and organ systems (gross anatomy and histology), including their developmental origins. You will gain a deep understanding of how the structure of the human body (both macro and microsc… | Science | 2 |
| DEV3011 | Experimental developmental biology and disease modelling This unit introduces you to the concepts and experimental systems in developmental biology. How gene expression is regulated during development and thereby leads to the development of differentiated cells and tissues is considered. Communic… | Science | 3 |
| DEV3022 | Developmental and anatomical basis of human health and disease This unit explores developmental anatomy, including new insights into the molecular and foetal/maternal regulation of the development of major organ systems. You will consider how genetic and/or environmental anomalies during gestation can… | Science | 3 |
| DEV3032 | Stem cells in development, disease and regeneration This unit is structured into four overarching themes. It begins with an introduction to pluripotency, reprogramming and the microenvironment, followed by a focus on stem cell biology in reproductive development and fertility. The characteri… | Science | 3 |
| DEV3990 | Action in anatomy and developmental biology research project This unit provides the opportunity for high achieving students to work with an academic supervisor and complete a research project in Developmental Biology. The research project may be chosen from a list of projects available at the beginni… | Science | 3 |
| DGN1000 | Design studio 1 Design studio 1 immerses you in both the creative and critical aspects of design. Through hands-on exploration - drawing, photography, digital imaging, paper crafting, and 3D mixed media modelling - you’ll develop an understanding of how to… | Art, Design and Architecture | 1 |
| DGN1303 | The language of graphic design In this unit you will study the work of innovative visual designers from Modernism until the present. You will analyse how designers use pictorial images and words to convey meanings; and how they achieve this by employing a form of visual… | Art, Design and Architecture | 1 |