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Edith Cowan University (ECU)

  • 19% international / 81% domestic

Master of Professional Design

  • Masters (Coursework)

Provides students with advanced technical and conceptual skills in design, and uses digital media as both a production and a creative tool.

Key details

Degree Type
Masters (Coursework)
Duration
2 years full-time, 4 years part-time
Course Code
J72, 096497J
Study Mode
Online, In person

About this course

Provides students with advanced technical and conceptual skills in design, and uses digital media as both a production and a creative tool.

In the latter stages of the course, students will focus on an advanced design application through the production of a major piece of work that will fuse contemporary studio-based practice and theory with rigorous critical analysis.
Students will be introduced to design thinking as a means of exploring ways of investigating and understanding complex challenges, and user-focused methods of generating ideas. Students will be encouraged to view the design process as a collaborative activity that generates innovation through making and prototyping.
The course will appeal to non-design related practitioners and graduates who wish to upgrade their practice by including design skills as the means to understand and apply the role of empathy in user-centred innovation.

Study locations

Mount Lawley

Online

What you will learn

  • Apply advanced design research processes and methods to investigate, evaluate, and synthesise complex problems, concepts and theories in inter-disciplinary design projects.
  • Reflect critically on advanced design philosophies, principles, methods, and processes, to demonstrate master of inter-disciplinary design practice or scholarship.
  • Apply communication and collaboration skills to design innovative contributions to inter-disciplinary design practice or scholarship.
  • Use high level self management skills to initiate, plan, and execute a substantial design project.

Career pathways

UX Designer (User Experience Designer), Service Designer, Social Designer, Design Strategist