Graphics & Contemporary Society
This fully online course comprises a series of lectures, learning activities and assessment tasks introducing topical issues in contemporary graphic design and its significance in society. These issues include form and function in communication design, pictorial and narrative structures in visual communication, systems of icons and symbols as a global visual language, and the influence of technology on aesthetics and visual experience.

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Non-accredited: AU$680

Design, Interactivity and Emerging Media
This fully online course comprises a series of lectures, learning activities and assessment tasks that seek to discover and understand the underlying language of interactivity. The content includes a broad history of interactive media, questions existing conventions of interactivity, and explores the notions of play and interactive design. The course aims to develop a set of ideas, approaches and practices that are essential to the creation of engaging interactive experiences.

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Non-accredited: AU$680

Seeing Light as a Design Tool
Your learning in this fully online course will be based on demonstrations and experiential observations that seek to understand the effect of light sources on your perception of space. Learning exercise and assessment tasks will include both individual and joint activities to encourage collaborative learning, and will be supported by online resources. Your activities will include problem solving, critical thinking and establishing a design process.

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Non-accredited: AU$680

The Art of Plants and Nature
This fully online course comprises a series of lectures, activities and assessment tasks that seek to increase your visual awareness of plant structures, the analytical and conceptual means by which you see and define them, the possibilities for pictorial and aesthetic outcomes, and the translation of these understandings into your own art/design products. The course centres on visual analysis of natural forms including: structure, growth, environmental influence, issues of symmetry, division, and proportions the investigation of botanical form (plant morphology), and an introduction to some of the descriptions and traditions which make up artistic responses to plants and flowers.

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Non-accredited: AU$680

Textiles: Technology and the Body
This fully online course will look at textiles relating to fashion, interior design and art practice. It will examine key points in political, environmental, ethical and social issues in developing textile technology. Emerging processes and technologies, including computer generated imagery, chemical treatments to fibres altering structure, new woven fabrics, digital printing, developing processes such as nano, bio and touch sensitive fabrics and ‘wonder fibres’ will be examined.

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680

Fashion 1980 - Now
Why do high-heeled shoes feature in the television series Sex and the City? How are fashion, gender and sexuality linked? Why can women now wear a cheongsam dress and trainers? Fashion history and theory is one of the most rapidly developing areas of humanities research, drawing upon new theories of the body, social space, surfaces, ephemerality and popular culture.
This course examines fashion as a vehicle of self-fashioning since the 1980s.

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680

Cross Cultural Sculpture
This is a practical sculpture course that will introduce the student to ways of making culturally blended, contemporary sculpture and installation art through online projects. The influence of colonialism, migration, globalisation, mass media, cultural displacement, multi-culturalism, travel and tourism will be examined. Studio theory components will enhance awareness and understanding of how and why contemporary artists often blend and quote diverse cultural practices in their artwork.

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680

Visual Identity in the Built Environment
It may seem obvious why a fashion boutique stamps a big logo on the front of its commercial premises, however, ask yourself: why do local councils label street signs in their municipality with a council emblem, or why do public parks nowadays have a logo designed to represent them? Most environments we encounter on a daily basis have been designed to carry a specific visual identity or brand. The course explores a range of commercial and non-commercial spaces. It examines how visual identity has been programmed into these spaces and how this affects the user-experience.

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680

Print Advertising for a World Market
This course considers such issues when looking at cross-cultural representation and perception in graphic advertising design. It invites you to analyse some interesting advertising design case studies, with emphasis on print media advertising from magazine ads to billboard posters. Nowadays, with many companies trying to sell their goods in the global market, there is a claim that the developed world has evolved into a global monoculture. Nevertheless, designers and entrepreneurs still need to be aware of cultural nuances.

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680

Textiles for Interiors - Senses and Spaces
Exploring various dimensions of visual aesthetics, you will learn about contemporary trends in textile and interior design, and possible futures of textile design using new digital technologies. These will be placed in an overview of the context of an historical timeline. Through personal analysis, shared experiences and observation, you’ll understand more about how textiles affect your home and work environments. This online course offers you opportunities for both individual and collaborative learning activities. These will include problem solving, critical thinking and establishing design outcomes that support you in developing a heightened awareness of the sensory and spatial influences of textiles on interior settings.

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680

Creative Thinking Processes
This course introduces you to some of the many tools that can facilitate creative thinking. Visual, verbal and physical techniques will be used to help participants understand and apply creative thinking principles such as interconnectivity, non linear (associative) thinking, and use maps, models and metaphors.

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680

Experiencing and Understanding Art
This online course will help give you a better understanding and
appreciation of art. You will learn how to observe and appreciate art from different perspectives, and will be asked to draw on experience and knowledge from your own area of study. Sharing your own perspective with others, and learning how to broaden and contextualise your understanding of artwork and exhibitions are key elements to this course.

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680

Digital Illustration for Concept Art
This course aims to take you through the world of concept art with a focus in its digital pre-production process. The course will have both practical and theoretical aspects about how to use digital tools to produce concept art more effectively. This course will be useful for anyone who wants to experience the process of creating concept art using digital tools.

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680

Spacial Design
This course introduces you to the dramatic changes in Retail, Exhibition and Hospitality design over the past 20 years, and the emergence of innovative, iconic spaces and designers in this area. Participants will examine catalysts behind these changes, explore key examples, and discover new design strategies and methods.

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680

Curating Art and Exhibitions
Today’s contemporary art practice includes temporary and site-specific projects, screen-based, digital and online art. The role of the curator, whether museumbased or freelance, has changed dramatically with the emergence of these new art practices. This course investigates key exhibitions and art projects internationally, providing a range of approaches to curating art today. It focuses on new models of exhibition-making both in traditional and alternative art venues, including public art.

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Non-accredited: AU$680

Society Through the Lens
This course introduces participants to an emerging and rapidly growing discipline, Visual Sociology. As a field that is providing new methods with which to document, evaluate and consequently better understand society through the lens, it is of increasing importance worldwide. 

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680

Draw Your World
Have you ever wished you could draw something from your imagination or from the real world so other people could understand it? This fully online course will introduce you to techniques that will help you to accomplish this. You will learn how to use the key elements of drawing: line, tone, proportion and composition and to understand their expressive uses through experimentation with a broad variety of media including charcoal, pen, pencil, ink
and chalk.

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680

Spacial Design: Retail, Exhibition & Hospitality
This course introduces you to the dramatic changes in Retail, Exhibition and Hospitality design over the past 20 years, and the emergence of innovative, iconic spaces and designers in this area. Participants will examine catalysts behind these changes, explore key examples, and discover new design strategies and methods.

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680

Contemporary Aesthetics in Digital Architecture
How will tomorrow’s built and landscaped environments look and feel? In these first few decades of the digital age, the planet’s leading architects have been discovering the creative potentials of on-screen design tools which behave very differently from pens, slide rules and paper. You will examine how emerging convergences of diverse technologies are influencing how architects aim to reinvent the way buildings look and feel - not only to answer humanity’s next challenges but to continue telling humanity’s stories through aesthetics.

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680

Unraveling Urban Design
This course will take you through a progressive series of lectures drawing on historical and contemporary examples of urban design so that you will be equipped with a strong skill in spatial literacy and urban design potential. 

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680

Visual Interpretations of the Past
Every time any of us walk into a museum, stroll about our neighbourhood, or browse thorough our city, we will inevitably be confronted by visual reconstructions of the past. It is paramount that we are fluent with knowing how integrated they are into our understanding of the past and essential to be able to analyse them from a standpoint that sees them more than pretty pictures. Our appreciation of our own culture and cultures earlier than ours depends on interpreting the images made to visualise the past.

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680

Creative Character Design
This fully online course would suit anyone who wishes to explore characterisation for their own portfolio, the web, comic or 3D worlds. Through individual and collaborative exercises participants will explore considerations required for strong and visual and enduring characters for the screen, page and game environments.

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Fees:
Non-accredited: AU$680