Bachelor of Digital Innovation

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Bachelor of Digital Innovation

  • Objectives The Bachelor of Digital Innovation is a three year program that prepares students for a career in the digital content industries. This program provides students with a combination of creative and technical knowledge, focused on innovation, necessary for success as digital developers, creators, evaluators, researchers and producers. Graduates from the program will be able to apply and manage digital content tools and technologies in a rapidly changing environment for communication, education, creative production, research and commercialisation.
  • Academic title Bachelor of Digital Innovation
  • Course description About Digital Innovation

    The Bachelor of Digital Innovation is a three year program that prepares students for a career in the digital content industries – designing the multimedia of the future. This program provides students with a combination of creative and technical knowledge, focused on innovation, necessary for success as digital developers, creators, evaluators, researchers and producers. Graduates from the program will be able to apply and manage digital content tools and technologies in a rapidly changing environment for communication, education, creative production, research and commercialisation.


    Career Opportunities

    Graduates of the Bachelor of Digital Innovation will find employment opportunities in the digital content industries, including:

        *games design and development;
        *multimedia/web design and development;
        *interaction and information design;
        *project management;
        *creative online product researchers; and
        *online education.


    Program Structure

    To be eligible to graduate, students must complete 24 courses/144 units of credit.

    Students wishing to graduate with a Bachelor of Digital Innovation degree must successfully complete 24 courses (144 units of credit) as follows:

    Course Code     Course Name

    The following 6 Faculty core courses
    EDED11449     Principles of University Learning
    FAHE11001     Managing E-Learning
    FAHE12001     Communication in the Digital Age
    FAHE12002     Work in the 21st Century
    FAHE13001     Professional Skills
    FAHE13004     The Global Future

    The following 6 compulsory program courses
    DGTL11001      Foundations of Animation
    DGTL11003      Interaction, Information & Interface Design
    MMST11002     Web Design
    MMST11003     Design Perspectives
    MMST11009     Digital Video and Audio
    MMST12009     Web Application Development

    The following 2 collaborative multi-media projects
    MMST13015     Collaborative Multimedia Project Part A
    MMST13018     Collaborative Multimedia Project Part B
    One of the following 6 course pathways

    Digital Media Production (6 course)
    Course Code     Course Name
    COMM12116    Contemporary Photomedia
    DGTL11004      Digital Design and Communication
    DGTL12002      Interactivity and Social Networks
    DGTL13003      Advanced Media Production
    MMST11010     Illustration and Visualisation
    MMST12019     3D Animation

    New Media Studies (6 course)
    Course Code     Course Name
    COMM11005     New Media Studies
    COMM12023     Screen Studies
    COMM12116     Contemporary Photomedia
    COMM12117     New Media Arts
    COMM19114     Working with New Media
    CULT11012     Image and Text

    4 general electives

    Recommended study schedule
    Course Code     Course Name

    Yr 1 - T1
    EDED11449     Principles of University Learning
    DGTL11001     Foundations of Animation
    MMST11003     Design Perspectives
    Plan Elective     

    Yr 1 - T2
    FAHE11001     Managing E-Learning
    MMST11002     Web Design
    DGTL11003     Interaction, Information & Interface Design
    Plan Elective     

    Yr 2 - T1
    MMST12009     Web Application Development
    FAHE12001     Communication in the Digital Age
    FAHE12002     Work in the 21st Century
    MMST11009     Digital Video and Audio

    Yr 2 - T2
    Plan Elective     
    Plan Elective     
    General Elective     
    General Elective     

    Yr 3 - T1
    MMST13015     Collaborative Multimedia Project Part A
    Plan or General Elective     
    Plan or General Elective     
    Plan or General Elective     

    Yr 3 - T2
    MMST13018     Collaborative Multimedia Project Part B
    FAHE13001     Professional Skills
    FAHE13004     The Global Future
    Plan or General Elective     

    Year 1:  6 core courses and 2 elective

    Year 2:  4 core courses and 4 electives

    Year 3:  4 core courses and 4 electives

     

    Students may determine their own schedule based upon credit transfers and personal study requirements. It is important to note that full-time students usually enrol in 4 courses or in 24 units of credit per term and part-time students usually enrol in 2 courses or in 12 units of credit per term.

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