Program Details

The Master of Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design is a fully online postgraduate coursework degree. The online nature of the program allows flexibility to study at times that suit a busy lifestyle. It offers you the opportunity to experience, better understand and work within a range of creative disciplines, to enhance and strengthen your own creative process and practice.

You will experience online study with students from different creative backgrounds, professional experiences, locations and cultures. The program will explore theoretical and practical connections between a wide range of creative disciplines, offering you valuable individual and collaborative skills and knowledge in line with contemporary cross-disciplinary creative art and design practice.

Students can also apply for the Graduate Diploma (two semesters full-time) or Graduate Certificate (one semester full-time).

The aims of the program are to:

• Examine theoretical and practical aspects of creative practice across a range of art
   and design disciplines, and explore the cross-disciplinary creative links between
   these disciplines
• Equip you with individual and collaborative skills and knowledge in communication,
   research, theory and creativity in line with contemporary cross-disciplinary
   creative art and design practice
• Equip you with a high-level of cross-disciplinary creative and  investigative skills
• Provide additional options for students through an online approach to
   learning and teaching

Throughout the program, a series of sequential core courses will contextualise your study in a cross-disciplinary creative context. You can tailor your study to suit your own needs by choosing from a wide range of creative electives such as:

• Creative Thinking
• Understanding and Appreciating Art
• Art and Exhibition Curation
• Botanical Drawing
• Branding in the Built Environment
• Collaboration in Graphic Design
• Digital Architecture
• Drawing Studio
• Fashion in Society
• Global Print Advertising
• Textiles for Interiors
• Graphic Design in Society
• Interactive Design
• Lighting Design
• Photography in Visual Sociology
• Sculpture and Installation Art
• Technologically Advanced Textiles
• Digital Concept Art
• Creative Character Design and Animation
• Understanding Urban Design

The Master of Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design is a flexible professional development degree, highly appropriate for those:

The program also aims to improve your value to an employer in any creative industry by providing collaboration and communication skills, essential in contemporary cross-disciplinary creative practice.

Entry Requirements

Applicants to the Master of Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design should have a completed, recognised Bachelor degree with performance at credit average, or completion of the Graduate Diploma in Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design.

In exceptional cases, applicants who submit evidence of other academic and professional qualifications may be considered for admission to the Graduate Certificate in Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design. These applicants must submit a portfolio of their artwork.

Students who enter the Graduate Certificate in Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design can request an upgrade to the Graduate Diploma on completion of the Graduate Certificate program requirements.

Portfolio submission should include approximately twelve images (on a DVD/CD or hardcopy) of recent work.