Electives
Specialise or explore new opportunities.
Electives enable you to enhance and customise your degree, taking you closer to your aspirations. By carefully selecting your electives throughout your degree you can build your art and design capabilities to create a specific career outcome. It is an opportunity for you to take control of where you want to end up professionally.
This page is just a selection of the electives on offer within the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture.
Creative Coding
Learn how coding is used by artists, designers and architects to translate their ideas into new forms of creative expression and communication.
Creative Sustainability
Develop your practice-based knowledge through applied approaches to researching, making, learning and knowing with a focus on environmental sustainability. You’ll use a diverse set of design skills to respond to complex real-world issues with creative solutions.
Designing for Sustainability
How do we reduce the negative impact of human production on the environment? Exploring production, consumption and exchange you’ll learn about life cycle analysis tools, recycling, re-use, dematerialisation and reduction and come closer to designing sustainable objects and environments.
Design Thinking
Apply the skills and strategies developed by designers for approaching material problems to a wider range of problems and situations. Designers use a range of conceptual and communication approaches to explore and reconsider the context in which we work, as well as what should or could be achieved. Used by Google, IBM and a range of successful companies, design thinking is also a key element of many entrepreneurs’ ‘tool kits’.
Immerse Yourself in the World of Ideas, History and Theory
Art, Design and Architecture all offer units exploring the histories and ideas shaping the work of artists, designers and architects. If you’re interested in becoming a cultural commentator, a critic or cultural writer, or want to broaden your understanding of the histories and contexts of making then learn from some of Australia’s leading experts here at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture.
Learn About Indigenous Australian Creative Practices and Ways of Knowing
Engage with Indigenous culture in an appropriately experiential way. This unit will enable you to develop a deep understanding of the relationship between Indigenous culture and the impact of Country on Indigenous cultural products and relationships to place and situated experience.
Service Design
‘Services’ are carefully considered human-centred experiences with objects, artefacts or places connected by a system or systems of use. Taking case study examples of creating and organising the provision of a service you’ll explore your own ideas while learning how to create work flowcharts, experience testing techniques and information graphics to communicate ideas and realise solutions.
Advertising
- Advertising Design 1 and 2
Digital and Computer-Aided Design
- 3D animation
- 3D design and visualisation
- 3D digital modelling for artists
- 3D modelling and virtual space
- Creative coding
- Creative expression through physical computing
- Digital audio/video
- Digital imaging
- Digital imaging for art
- Digital processes for art and design 1
- Web design
Design Thinking
- Design thinking
- Advanced design thinking
- Design thinking approaches
Drawing
- Drawing 1
- Drawing: advanced studies 1 and 2
- Drawing: conceptual studies 1 and 2
- Drawing: the body 1
- Drawing: anatomy 1 and 2
- Product drawing
- Engineering drawing
Film and Photography
- Art and design in film
- Art and the moving image
- Digital imaging for art
- Film practice
- Photographic processes
- Photography 1
- Advanced photography
- Photography history and theory
- Video art and the moving image
Furniture Design
- Furniture 1 and 2
Illustration and Animation
- Conceptual illustration
- Illustration as design
- Illustration for animation
- Illustration for narrative
- Introduction to contemporary illustration
Jewellery
- Contemporary jewellery practice 1, 2, 3 and 4
Mobility Design
- Mobility design 1, 2 and 3
Packaging, Product Design and Manufacturing
- Design for manufacturing
- Materials and manufacturing 1 and 2
- Model-making and workshop practice
- Mould-making and casting for design
- Packaging design
Painting
- Painting introduction: materials and methods
- Abstraction and non-objective painting
- Representational painting: narrative and figuration
- Sound in the space of art
- Interventions: feminist and conceptual practices
Printmaking
- The contemporary print: etching and relief printmaking
- Artists’ books 1 and 2
- Screen printing and the contemporary poster
Spatial Design/Interior Architecture
- Exhibition design
- Contexts in spatial design studio practice
- Advanced technologies for spatial design 1 and 2
- Sensory design
- Studies in interior architecture
- Contemporary interior architecture
- Interior architecture history and theory
Typography
- Digital font design
- Typography 1, 2 and 3
