Diploma of Information Technology at Charles Darwin University (CDU)

Interaction designers play a vital role in creating digital products that are useable, uncomplicated, and human-centred. If you're looking to develop advanced knowledge about the design process for interactive products this is the program for you. Our professional program for graduates from other fields, to allow you to learn the essential skills to work in the interaction design industry. With the Graduate Certificate in Interaction Design you will develop in-depth technical skills, alongside your degree in a field other than Interaction Design / User Experience Design / Multimedia Design. Your future is in industry, as an interaction designer. You will undertake foundational studies to allow you to achieve a transition to become an interaction designer. Meet the challenges of tomorrow Interaction with electronic devices is a major part of our daily lives. From early childhood onwards we are connected to the internet, telecommunications and networks of computer-based technologies. The emerging challenges in this radically evolving field are not so much with the nature of new technologies, but with their design. How should these technologies be experienced in our lives? How can they support and enhance our everyday practices? What should they help us become? These programs train students to address these issues through the design of new interactive technologies. Program highlights Interaction design professionals work in multidisciplinary teams to address open-ended, real-life design projects. Your program simulates this environment through studio-based and project courses. Students from the course Physical Computing and Interaction Design Studio get to demonstrate their work to peers and industry at our annual student design exhibition. Benefit from a program that offers a flexible study plan. Choose from a large number of elective courses and tailor your studies to suit your interests, your industry, or your career goals.

Broaden your career opportunities or change direction with a postgraduate qualification in Information Technology. If you want to master the basics of IT, the Graduate Certificate in Information Technology is designed for graduates who haven't previously studied the subject. In this half year program, you'll learn core IT concepts and techniques, with a strong focus on computer-based information systems and database technologies. You'll complete four courses from a huge range of options, which cover topics from an introductory to an advanced level, including software systems, database systems, information security, and user-centred design. You'll also benefit from our flexible program. The Graduate Certificate in Information Technology offers such a large number of elective courses that you can tailor your studies to suit your interests, your industry or your career goals. On completion, you can choose to progress to the Graduate Diploma or Master of Information Technology. Because courses in the graduate certificate are taken from the Master's course list, you can transfer study credits to the higher-level programs. Program highlights Advance your skills in web and software development, new IT concepts and techniques. Study courses covering software systems, database systems, information security and more. Tailor your studies to suit your interests, your industry or your career goals. Take advantage of the option to transfer study credits to higher-level programs.

The Graduate Certificate in Technology combines practice-based subjects, called Studios, with elective subjects from across the university, to adapt the course to the needs of students. We understand that's a lot of freedom. In the core Studio, students work with academics and professional peers in collaborative, intensive workshops - honing problem solving skills and critical thinking on professional development. The studio teaches a systems thinking framework for students to apply and synthesise their technical knowledge and skills. The studio provides mentorship and a collaborative practice-based learning environment to develop competencies. The course teach students to think in different ways that enable them to unravel problems, while building postgraduate level content knowledge in subject areas of their choice including postgraduate subjects focused on the intersection of technology and community, and scientific or technological processes or skills.