BA in Design at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009The Department of Design Studies at the Zurich University of the Arts serves the artistic and creative preparation of students for professional practice. This professional practice is through the analysis, development and application of design procedures for the implementation of design tasks in different economic and social areas characterized
The bachelor’s degree leads to a first professional degree and at the same time forms the basis for a further Master’s degree. In the bachelor’s degree students will learn the methodology, classification, terminology and basic questions of their elected deepening know. With the proposed inter-and transdisciplinary projects, students can also responsible for ideas and a subsequent master’s degree develop. The structure of the bachelor’s degree is geared towards the ZHdK for the binding targets. One semester is divided into six modules: a ZHdK-wide compulsory module, two bachelor-specific modules, and three depth-specific modules. The content will be – depending on the occupancy requirements and objectives of the study – certain modules in versions. This is also the fulfillment of the most fundamental principle of the Declaration of Bologna: the option for students.