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Visual Communication

USC’s industry-focused Visual Communication major prepares you to work as a professional designer. Learn how graphic designers create graphics that communicate messages and evoke responses through the use of colour, texture, typography, images and symbols.

This major allows you to experience all aspects of the design process, specialise in a particular field, or combine interests in layout design, advertising, photography, illustration or branding.

Learn the analytical and problem-solving skills you need to create dynamic ideas, using the theoretical principles and aesthetic design concepts that underpin good design. As part of your major, you will undertake industry projects and internships and create a professional portfolio to display in a shared graduate exhibition.

Career opportunities

Graphic designer, art director, creative director, advertising designer, book designer, illustrator, product designer, photographic editor.

Major (8)

For a major in Visual Communication (previously Graphic Design), students must successfully complete 8 courses:

CourseSemester of offerUnitsRequisites
DES101 Reading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writing
DES105 Changing Planet Earth
DES211 Regions, Change and Sustainability
DES212 Landscapes, Place and People
DES305 Urbanism and Urban Design
DES306 Introduction to Weather and Climate
DES309 An Introduction to Geographic Information Science and Technology

PLUS select 1 course from:

CourseSemester of offerUnitsRequisites
CMN311 Earth Observation: Remote Sensing and Surveying
CMN312 Applied Geospatial Analysis

*Available to be studied online

Minor (4)

For a minor in Visual Communication (previously Graphic Design), students must successfully complete 4 courses:

CourseSemester of offerUnitsRequisites
DES105 Hydrology and Geomorphology
DES211 Coastal Geomorphology
DES212 Indigenous Peoples and the Environment
DES305 Historical Geographies

*Available to be studied online