Bachelor of Design Honours

Whether you're graduating with a design degree this year or have already graduated, an Honours year with UTS School of Design can take your qualifications, expertise and career potential to the next level. As a UTS Bachelor of Design Honours student, you can choose to:

• Pursue a major project in your existing disciplinary area of Fashion and Textiles, Product Design or Visual Communication (the 'Independent Practice Project'); or
• Apply and broaden your design skills as you develop a major project in response to a real-world problem area (the 'Social Innovation Project'). 

Independent Practice Project

If you have an individual project idea in mind, or you're interested in developing and exploring one, this pathway allows you to do just that. In the Independent Practice Project you'll deepen your design skills as you apply them to your major project in:

• Fashion and Textiles; or
• Product Design; or
• Visual Communication (including photography).

Whichever discipline area you choose, you'll self-lead your project from initial idea through to completion, working in dedicated studio spaces and with access to the wide range of UTS workshops, facilities and production equipment.

Social Innovation Project

This new Honours pathway allows you to situate your Honours project in response to a real-world problem area. It’s a great option if you are looking to broaden your existing design skills into the emerging areas of social and service design. You’ll work on a complex and open problem with industry, research and community partners and be supported to apply collaborative design methods to realise your individual design response.  

You can discover more about projects in Social Innovation at the Design Honours Social Innovation Project page.

The UTS Design Honours Experience

Experiment and consolidate your skills

An Honours year at UTS enables you to research, experiment and drive your own project, consolidating the skills you've learnt in your undergraduate degree. It's an opportunity to originate your own personal style while you develop specialised techniques to take into your career.

Take your portfolio to the next level

As a UTS Design Honours student you'll substantially boost your design portfolio as you pursue your chosen project. This not only gives you an edge in future employment, but will also help you to develop and refine an application into any of the world's leading Masters programs.

Expert and specialist support

Though you'll conceptualise and produce your own design project, you won't do it alone. Along the way you'll draw upon and consult with the respected technical and academic experts from UTS School of Design as well as leading industry mentors, to help you realise your project to its highest potential.  

Immersive experience

Learn in person, in dedicated studio spaces, and build your own network of peers and collaborators in small class settings. You’ll have classes on campus two-days a week – primarily working with peers from your discipline, as well as broadening your outlook with a selection of interdisciplinary classes.

Find out more

To learn more about UTS Bachelor of Design Honours – whether you currently study with UTS or not – you can:

1. Visit the Bachelor of Design Honours course information page
2. Email the Design Honours Director for more information
3. Book a video chat with the director to get your specific course questions answered.

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Brian Lim, Design Honours 2022 (Product Design)
Polypod: Expandable, Design-based STEM toy.