308121 (v.1) Design Issues Seminar 491

Area:

Department of Design

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0

** 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 1 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

The opportunity to engage with current issues and debates that are topical to discussions of design both within an academic context and within more general discussions in the media. Examination of the issues that surround your own practice and debates those issues with others in a series of structured seminars. Practice and improve presentation skills through presentations at seminars and throughout the initiation of discussion topics. This work will provide contextual background material for the development of the proposal for the design project work that is initiated in the design project development unit. Debates about the relevance of design research to practice as they take place within the international professional design community.

** 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:

100500 Graphic and Design Studios (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

07 - Foreign Languages, Visual and Performing Arts

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
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

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