{"id":123505,"date":"2020-09-29T15:06:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T07:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/?page_id=123505"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:45:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:45:39","slug":"postgraduate-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/study-areas\/arts-creative-industries\/postgraduate-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgraduate design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advance your design knowledge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our postgraduate design courses offer you the flexibility to shape your degree to best suit your career aspirations. You can study a practice or leadership orientated pathway or a combination of both, allowing you to upskill and hone your management and leadership skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We offer three levels of study which allows you to choose the course and level that best suits your career and lifestyle. Each course level completion leads and provides credit to the next, allowing you to break your study down into more manageable chunks while you work towards your Master (if that is your goal).<\/p>\n\n\n<mimas-block \n        block-name=\"cards\"\n        data-segment=\"dom\">\n\n    \n\n        <div class=\"card-grid\"\n         data-card-size=\"standard\"         data-card-count=\"3\"\n         data-card-background=\"gray\">\n                    <div  id=\"graduate-certificate-in-design\" class=\"card\" data-type=\"\" aria-label=\"graduate-certificate-in-design\"><div class=\"inner\"><div class=\"card__title\"><h3>Graduate Certificate in Design<\/h3><\/div><div class=\"card__content\"><ul><li>6 months full time or part time equivalent<\/li><li>An introduction to the fundamentals of design led innovation<\/li><\/ul><\/div><ul class=\"card__links\"><li><a\n    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aria-hidden='true'><\/span><h3>Designed with industry<\/h3><\/div><div class=\"card__content\"><p>Our courses are designed in consultation with industry, so you\u2019ll graduate with the skills employers want.\u202f <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>                    <div  id=\"real-world-learning\" class=\"card\" data-type=\"\" aria-label=\"real-world-learning\"><div class=\"inner\"><div class=\"card__title\"><span class=\"ico ico-arrow ico--deep-blue\" style=\"--icon:url(https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/study\/wp-content\/themes\/mimas\/src\/img\/icons\/ico-arrow.svg)\" aria-hidden='true'><\/span><h3>Real-world\u202f learning<\/h3><\/div><div class=\"card__content\"><p>Participate in real-world learning through working with our industry partners on live projects.\u202f <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>                    <div  id=\"learn-from-experts\" class=\"card\" data-type=\"\" aria-label=\"learn-from-experts\"><div class=\"inner\"><div class=\"card__title\"><span class=\"ico ico-chevron-fat 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