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Bachelor of Design Computing
B Design Computing (UAC course code: 511102)
Known to our students as ‘DeCo’, after the prefix
for the units of study we oer, the Bachelor of
Design Computing is a three-year undergraduate
degree in design with electronic media.
Our students go on to become art directors,
creative directors, producers, and developers at
interaction design firms, advertising, marketing
and public relations agencies, animation houses,
and IT consulting companies. If you have
watched a movie on an inflight entertainment
system, played a video game associated with
a Hollywood movie, or recorded a movie
with FOXTEL Remote Record, you’ve already
used interactive multimedia and applications
imagined, designed and developed by one of
our graduates.
This course pushes you to develop your own
design concepts, and then progress these ideas
into working systems that are functional and
a pleasure to use. We emphasise the design
of interactive systems that excite, enrich user
experiences, and are technically robust. We
teach using a studio model, meaning you work
intensively with your lecturers, tutors, and peers
to produce new design works. Our flexible
program includes Australia’s widest choice of
units in design related disciplines, as well as IT,
marketing and commerce, arts and sciences.
This exhibition catalogue shows some of our
recent graduates’ design work, and for more
examples, see sydney.edu.au/architecture/
design_lab.
In addition to working with the latest software
for design including the Adobe Creative Suite,
3D Studio Max, Final Cut Pro, and Max/MSP,
we teach a variety of programming languages
including HTML5, Javascript, Java, PHP,
and Objective C. Our students deploy their
interactive multimedia and applications on
various hardware platforms including iPhone,
iPad, Android-based mobile phones, multi-touch
tables, and Arduino microelectronics boards.
We invite you to engage with design in a
contemporary and forward thinking way in
the Bachelor of Design Computing course.
Our course lets you explore your passion
for design along with the fundamentals of
computing and electronic media. Our industry
advisers tell us that they need people who
can develop technologies and understand the
relevance and appropriateness of design, and
this is what we prepare you to do. For students
who do not meet the ATAR entry score cut-o,
we oer a Flexible Entry Scheme for admission
with a portfolio. For further information about
admissions and the degree program, please visit
our Web site:
sydney.edu.au/architecture/programs_of_study/
undergraduate/design_computing/index.shtml
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