Overview

Master visual storytelling by honing your digital photography skills, capturing the essence of moments in the studio and reality. Embark on a creative journey, weaving captivating narratives through moving images. Unleash your potential with digital effects and animation, breathing life and depth into your creations.

CRICOS Course Code: 058836K

Duration
2 years (6 trimesters, 1152 hours)
Schedule
Full-time *, Daytime
Language of Instruction
English
Mode of Delivery
On-campus
Next session starts September 15, 2025

About the Course

Craft captivating visual stories across diverse realms.

Direct your lens towards the art of digital photography, and pan across both in-studio and outdoor techniques.

Focus on filmmaking, collaborating to splice together thrilling narratives.

Get your career in digital visual effects and animation in frame, and shoot!

Note: you need to apply for the Bachelor of Design Arts. You will commence study in your chosen major during your second trimester of the course.

CRICOS Course Code: 058836K

Opportunities

Purpose-built facilities and equipment

Benefit from specialised resources, like:

  • Photography studio with cyclorama
  • Printing and scanning equipment
  • Audiovisual equipment
  • Props and background paper
  • Computer lab
  • Lighting equipment

Enjoy spacious classrooms and use cutting-edge tools to enhance creativity, gaining practical skills with industry-standard equipment and technology.

Admissions Criteria

  • Local applicants

    • Satisfactory completion of Australian Year 12, or one of the equivalent qualifications as defined under minimum academic entry requirements.
    • An Admission Consultation

    ATAR scores are not used in the consideration of your application. Unscored VCE (or equivalent) is accepted for entry.

    Students must be 18+ years of age at commencement of course.

    Find out more about new exemptions for Year 12 applicants via VTAC

  • International applicants

    • Satisfactory completion of Australian Year 12, or one of the equivalent qualifications as defined under minimum academic entry requirements;
    • Proof of English Language Proficiency (IELTS overall score of 6.0, with no skills band lower than 5.5 or equivalent like TOEFL, Pearson Test of English or CAE);
    • An Admission Consultation.
    • A current Student visa to study in Australia. Australian visas are issued by the Department of Home Affairs;
    • Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC).

    Students must be 18+ years of age at commencement of course.

List of Units

Exploration, Contextual, and Professional Practice Units

Exploration Units

Discover design fundamentals via workshop-based study that focuses on expanding foundational understanding of design.

Workshop: Body (WRKB)
Workshop: Image (WRKI)
Workshop: Message (WRKM)
Workshop: Space (WRKS)
Visual Foundations (ACC111)
Elective: Brand Strategy (ELE001)
Elective: Design & Wellbeing (ELE002)

Contextual Units

Explore the impact of context (e.g., historical, trends, visual thinking, technology, culture) on designers' and artists' work and realisation of vision. Experiment in a collaborative learning environment to articulate and understand key influences on art and design.

Design, History & Culture (AXC111)
Social Trend Forecasting (AXC121)
Design, Issues & Impact (AXC231)
Global Design Culture (AXE241)

Professional Practice

Practising artists and designers provide important insights into contemporary practice.
Hear from a range of local and overseas professionals about what is occurring in the industry and how they are succeeding in their field. Engage in related personal reflection.

Business Principles (ACC241)
Professional Practice & Systems (BPC351)
Professional Placement (APE241)
Personal & Professional Practice (BPC361)
Professional Communication (BCC351)

Design Laboratories

Learn and practise knowledge and skills specific to your major in LCI Design Laboratories, the core of the Bachelor of Design Arts degree. Engage with the full spectrum of the design and artistic process in studio-based labs. Respond to an industry brief, work on a global project with a global brand, or generate ideas to solve contemporary issues. Progress through a series of lab themes (foundational, issues, global, and industry) beginning in trimester 2. Put it all together in your final lab: produce and showcase an advanced body of work that expresses your creative ethos.

Design Laboratory: Foundation (LABX101)
Design Technology (APX121)
Design Laboratory: Issues (LABX102)
Design Sub Major (ASX111)
Design Laboratory: Global (LABX203)
Design Laboratory: Industry (LABX204)
Design Laboratory: Capstone (LABX205)

Inspiring stories

Empower your ambition with our students' success stories. Unlock a career that lives up to your aspirations.

Casual Artist in Studio
Opening new creative avenues. 
At LCI, I wasn’t just another number by Felix Schofield.  
Photographer in an Eco-Friendly Office
Dean’s unique approach? Hands-on learning.  Fast tracking students towards a career in the creative industry.