Certificate
In this course we'll guide you to work with design thinking and design processes, visual language and form, design for inclusive interactions, and strategies and tools for creative enterprise. By understanding major shifts in how design fields now operate, you'll gain foundational design knowledge and a framework for identifying opportunities.
Wherever you are, you can apply design skills to your interests in any sector or current role. Designing communications, services, experiences and new business models - with the technical, problem-solving and interpersonal skills valued in workplaces and community - are but a few of the many ways you can apply design.
You'll be learning by doing with hands-on design activities developing, prototyping and testing ideas, and creating projects through which you can progress your goals. Our practice-based learning approach means your tutors are industry-embedded, guiding you to explore places, cases and practices relevant for you and always connecting people and planet.
You can also develop your design skillset toward a more specialist design role and gain credit towards the Associate Degree in Applied Design. This course expands your learning and offers three stream options: Communication Design, Digital Design and Business Design.
Commonwealth Supported Places are available for this course, see Fees & scholarships for more information.
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We encourage you to apply for the courses you most want to study. If you are not eligible to enter your chosen course right now, the UTAS admissions team will work with you to find the best pathway option.
Enquire online for advice on the application process and the available pathways to study at UTAS.
Domestic applicants who recently completed secondary education (in the past two years)
This course does not use ATAR as part of the admission process. To be an eligible for an offer, applicants must have completed the Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE) or an equivalent qualification.
Domestic applicants with higher education study
To be eligible for an offer, you must have:
Domestic applicants with VET / TAFE study
To be eligible for an offer, you must have completed a completed Certificate III or higher (or equivalent) in any discipline.
Applications on the basis of work or life experience
Applicants without senior secondary, tertiary or VET / TAFE study can complete a personal competency statement.
Applicants may be eligible for an offer if they have relevant work and / or life experiences which demonstrate a capacity to succeed in this course.
This course is not available to international students. Please enquire online for advice on alternative course options.
The Undergraduate Certificate in Applied Design is an introductory course for professional development for those who wish to understand more about design to apply to their current/future work.
The course will give you foundational design skills relevant to various industries and provides a stepping stone for further design study.
After completing the Undergraduate Certificate in Applied Design, you can transition into further study with credit towards an Associate Degree in Applied Design and/or the Bachelor of Design.
The course structure comprises four core 12.5 credit point units
Passes in units in other incomplete courses in this University or another approved tertiary institution may be credited towards the undergraduate certificate and a course plan developed to detail the units required by the student to qualify for the undergraduate certificate. The maximum credit granted will be in accordance with the limits as stated in the Student Participation and Attainment Ordinance.