The Bachelor of Design Arts (Honours) degree exemplifies the ANU commitment to research-led education. Building on the Bachelor of Design Arts, it gives you high-level preparation for professional life or a higher degree by research through the development of an advanced knowledge of the research principles and methods and theoretical concepts of design arts, and through the design and implementation of a research project, typically the creation and installation/exhibition of a coherent, imaginative, focused and speculative body of artworks by integrating studio and contextual investigation/research, that leads to the development of new understandings or that provides solutions to complex problems.

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Learning Outcomes

1. pose a significant research question relating to design arts;
2. investigate this question creatively, critically, ethically, and independently, including through sophisticated use of appropriate theory and methodology as appropriate to design arts, and place these investigations in the context of the relevant intellectual tradition; and
3. communicate their research and its findings through an appropriate medium.