Use your creativity and vision to communicate original and exciting ideas.
Communication Designers communicate information visually.
During this hands-on degree, you'll learn to tell stories through still and moving image, text and interactive media. You'll develop industry-ready skills and use project-based learning to apply them to community- and client-driven projects that have a focus on positive social and environmental change.
Specialise in: Graphic design and typography; Illustration, animation and character design; UX for game design; Visual design for games; 3D modelling and world building; Game narratives and interactive fiction; Web design and mobile app design; Film and photography, or Social media content design and strategy.
Why study Communication Design?
An Otago Polytechnic design degree allows you to develop specialist and transferable skills that are sought after by employers but also well-suited to entrepreneurship and self-employment. You'll graduate as a work-ready designer with strengths in your chosen design field. You'll also have an understanding of your responsibilities as a designer, learning to design better experiences, create more responsive products and services and consider people, planet and place in the process. Throughout your degree, you'll have the opportunities to work with design students from other disciplines and develop communication, organisational and collaboration skills through electives, interdisciplinary, individual and team-based projects.
Benefits of studying with us: You'll gain valuable practical experience from projects, You'll spend 100 weeks in a design studio environment, You'll work with our highly skilled tutors, You'll be prepared for a broad range of creative careers.
Further study options: Advance your design skills with our graduate or postgraduate qualifications in Design or Art, or expand your career prospects with a graduate teacher training programme.
Your workload: There is an emphasis throughout the three-year programme on the development of independent learning skills. This is reflected in the decrease of directed hours over the three years, with an expectation that by the end of year three, you will be an independent learner.
20 Февраль 2023
Otago Polytechnic
Dunedin Campus,
Forth Street,
DUNEDIN,
North Dunedin,
9054, New Zealand
Students need to have achieved a secondary school qualification that is equivalent to New Zealand’s NCEA levels (National Certificate of Educational Achievement). Entry requirements vary from country to country.
If you do not hold the above qualifications, you must demonstrate equivalent qualifications/experience. Mature applicants with work and life experience are encouraged to apply.
International students will be individually assessed to ensure they meet degree-level entry requirements.
If English is not your first language, you must also demonstrate English language skills equivalent to an Overall Academic IELTS 6.0 (achieved in one test completed in the last two years)
Writing band 6.0
Speaking band 6.0
Reading band 5.5
Listening band 5.5, OR
TOEFL Paper-based test (pBT): Score of 550 (with an essay score of 5 TWE)
TOEFL Internet-based test (iBT): Score of 60 (with a writing score of 18)
Cambridge English Qualifications: B2 First, or B2 First for schools, or C1 Advanced, or C2 Proficiency with a score of 169. No less than 162 in each skill;
Pearson Test of English (Academic): PTE (Academic) score of 50 with no band score lower than 42
Language Certificate: C1 Expert IESOL (LRWS) with PASS and no less than Pass in each skill
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By 30 November
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