UndergraduateArts & Design
Associate Degree of Communication Design
Torrens University Australia, Multi-campus, national, Australia
About this program
This is an exit-only qualification awarded on completion of the first 16 subjects of the Bachelor of Communication Design; it is not open for direct application by prospective students. Sourced from the university's internal Student Hub course-structure document (ACD20), it runs 12 core subjects and 4 electives over two years, extending the Diploma of Communication Design's first-year subjects into typographic systems, Message Meaning Media and a Problem Based Learning Studio.
Cost & duration
English test scores
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Course structure
3 terms of coursework
- Visual Language of Design
- Digital Design Foundations
- Design Context
- Typography
- Design Studio 1
- Design Studio 2
- Publishing and Media
- Design Studio 3
- Message Meaning Media
- Problem Based Learning Studio
- Typographic Systems
- Discover Define Develop Deliver
- Electives (choose four from, one Level 100, two Level 200, one either level): Data Visualisation
- Illustration
- Finished Art
- Interaction Design
- JavaScript Fundamentals
- Light and Lighting
- Camera and Capture
- Motion Design
- 3D Asset Creation
- Animation Principles
- Game Design Principles
- Wayfinding
- Type Generation
- Web App Development
- UX Fundamentals
- Content Management Systems
- Motion Graphic Design
- Commercial Photography
- and others
- 16 subjects (exit award)
- 2 years full time
Career & PR pathway
Occupations this degree typically leads to, and their skilled-migration list status
Graphic DesignerANZSCO 232411
On STSOL, supporting the 190 and 491, not the 189 on its own.
Assessed by VETASSESS
Industrial DesignerANZSCO 232312
On STSOL, supporting the 190 and 491, not the 189 on its own.
Assessed by VETASSESS
Web DesignerANZSCO 232414
On STSOL, supporting the 190 and 491, not the 189 on its own. Also on CSOL, additionally supporting the employer-sponsored 482 and 186.
Assessed by VETASSESS
List membership changes over time and does not guarantee an invitation. See the skilled occupation lists guide and the points calculator before relying on this for a visa decision.
Admissions
Exit-only qualification awarded on completion of the first 16 subjects of the Bachelor of Communication Design; not open for direct application by prospective students
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