SEJ101 - Design Fundamentals
Unit details
| Year: | 2021 unit information |
|---|---|
| Important Update: | Our aim is to provide you with an optimal learning experience, regardless of how this unit is delivered. For Semester 1/Trimester 1 2021, teaching will be delivered in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. This may include a mix of online and on-campus activities. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates one week prior to the start of Semester/Trimester. Thank you for your flexibility and commitment to studying with Deakin in 2021. Last updated: 16 November 2020 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Cloud (online) |
| Credit point(s): | 2 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.250 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Saleh Gharaie |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | SEE010 or SEJ010 |
| Incompatible with: | SEB121 and SED102 |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 300 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 2 x 2 hour studio per week, 1 x 2 hour online content per week (recordings provided). All students are required to attend and participate in project-based activities for this unit at scheduled sessions during the trimester, including 3 full days during intensive week (typically week 8). |
| Scheduled learning activities - cloud: | 2 x 2 hours of scheduled online studio per week (recordings provided). 1 x 2 hours of online content per week (recordings provided). Students are required to attend and participate in project oriented design-based learning activities at the Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus at scheduled sessions during the trimester, including 3 full days during intensive week (typically week 8). |
Content
SEJ101 focuses on the principles and practice of design. Design is an essential characteristic of professional practice and requires unique knowledge, skills and attitudes common to a number of disciplines. In this unit, students will explore the process of design ideation, definition, prototyping and testing by working on authentic real world problems. The unit will allow students the opportunity to examine humanitarian problems in disadvantaged communities. Learning and assessment activities in this unit will require students to use creative processes to conceive, test and reflect on ideas. Students will be encouraged to view design problem from holistic and atomistic perspectives, paying attention to detail, and showing empathy for biases, values and needs of clients and users. Students will investigate design thinking and strategies, and modelling techniques to generate, evaluate and specify products in order to develop solutions to identified problems.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Locate, collect, identify define problems from client and user perspectives. | GLO3: Digital literacy |
| ULO2 | Use relevant information and design principles to ideate and propose possible solutions, | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Apply design, project management and teamwork skills to implement the design project, utilising critical and creative processes. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO4 | Apply information, graphical and spatial skills and techniques to prototype, test and present a product that is solution to a situational problem | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
| Design portfolio | Design portfolio presentation | 50% | Weeks 4, 8 and 12 |
| Case study report | Written report, 1,000-word maximum | 20% | Week 8 |
| Oral presentation | 5-minute video recording | 10% | Week 8 |
| Group humanitarian design project | Project reports, 3,000- word maximum | 20% | Week 10 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Hurdle requirement
To be eligible for a pass in this unit, students must achieve a minimum of 50% on the portfolio and group report.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SEJ101 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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