Adelaide University
Bachelor of Creative Arts majoring in Digital Media and Web Design
Do you dream of designing websites or digital experiences that millions will interact with?
Digital media and web designers shape the way we connect, communicate and engage with the digital world. Whether you’re shopping online, scrolling through your feed, or streaming the latest TV show – your experience has been carefully curated by designers with the user in mind.
Channel your creativity across areas like digital marketing, e-commerce and visual storytelling. Design new digital platforms that are intuitive and user centred. Communicate visual content with impact.
Get ready to design, create and innovate.
Overview
Our Bachelor of Creative Arts majoring in Digital Media and Web Design prepares you for a creative career as a design professional in the digital space.
You’ll explore user experience design principles and examine a variety of digital media to understand how and why audiences engage with digital platforms. You’ll learn to manage projects, design interfaces, websites and new interactive experiences, and build your own professional portfolio. You’ll also consider ethical concepts and how online platforms affect social, cultural and political systems.
Connect with leading creative organisations throughout your degree and gain hands-on experience through internships and industry projects. Collaborate with students across other creative disciplines to solve real-world problems for an industry client.
Combine your major in Digital Media and Web Design with a second, complementary major to enhance your career options.
Gain professional, transferable skills through core creative arts courses, equipping you to work across a range of roles within the creative industries.
What you’ll learn
Our Bachelor of Creative Arts is highly flexible so you can design your degree around your career goals.
Through the Digital Media and Web Design major, you’ll explore design principles and learn how to apply them across digital platforms. You’ll gain practical skills in content management systems, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, digital asset editing and more, to create visually appealing and functioning websites.
As well as building your technical skills, you’ll explore big-picture concepts like audience behaviour, cultural trends in social media, the influence of digital media on society and culture, and possible futures of online platforms.
Throughout your degree, you’ll study courses in subjects including:
- Social media audiences and algorithmic cultures
- Digital design principles and methods
- Web design principles
- Principles of UX design
- Digital project management
- Web development
- Digital mediascapes
- Web design portfolio.
Common core courses will equip you with transferable skills like problem-solving, creative thinking and collaboration. You’ll also develop skills across project management and client relations and get familiar with industry-specific methodologies and techniques like agile and scrum.
You’ll gain hands-on experience working on collaborative projects with a real-world industry client. In your final year, you’ll develop a professional portfolio of work, and complete an internship or major project, building your industry connections and experience.
