306956 (v.1) Visual Communication 291

Area:	Department of Design
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	7632 (v.6) Design Process 192 or any previous version AND 10005 (v.3) Design in Context 192 or any previous version
Syllabus:	The aim of this unit is to introduce the intellectual and procedural methods inherent in the design process, to enable effective investigation, experimentation and discovery, thereby creating a predisposition towards innovation in preference to predetermined assumptions, formula or convention when undertaking design briefs. As a core study unit for two-dimensional design for second year it covers the design process of research, idea generation, development and implementation. Students are required to pass this unit before they can proceed with their studies in the following streams; Graphic Design, Illustration, Advertising or Photography.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	100501 Graphic Arts and Design Studies
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2009	Charles Telfair Inst Mauritius	Semester 1

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External