This double degree opens up a variety of career pathways for those who want to work as designers across a range of fields or want to understand the role of design in business.The Commerce component provides you with a fundamental understanding of general business principles and allows you to develop specialist knowledge in a business area of your choice. With more than 10 majors to choose from – ranging from accounting to human resource management – you can design a degree to suit your interests and career goals.

The Design degree will provide you with a future-focused, studio-based and research-led design education. You will develop skills, knowledge and professional attributes integrating key design specialisations. Study areas include ceramics, graphics media, jewellery, object design, spatial design and textiles.

Majors

Choose up to two specialisations from the Bachelor of Commerce:

• Accounting
• Business Analytics
• Business Economics
• Business Law
• Business Strategy and Economic Management
• Financial Economics
• Human Resource Management
• Information Systems
• International Business
• Management
• Marketing
• Real Estate Studies
• Taxation

And at least two studio specialisations from the Bachelor of Design:

• 3D Visualisation
• Objects
• Experience
• Graphics
• Interaction
• Textiles

Career Opportunities

• Arts manager
• Business/financial analyst
• Human resource consultant
• Marketing/advertising manager
• Media design
• Performing arts
• Publishing
• Product designer

Accreditation / Professional Recognition

Depending on your course selection, you may meet the education requirement of various professional bodies including Australian Computer Society (Information Systems), Australian Human Resources Institute (Human Resource Management), Australian Securities and Investment Commission (RG-146) (Finance), CPA Australia (Accounting), Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (Accounting), ACCA (Accounting) and Institute of Public Accountants (Accounting).