About the School
The School of Design, Communication and Information Technology is at the centre of new developments in delivering information and entertainment content through its use of innovative means of delivery, combined with our experience in utilizing existing technologies. While DCIT has recently moved all its graphics, video and audio facilities to new digital equipment, it continues in its teaching and researching into the fundamentals behind these technologies as these inform the practice of professionals such as:
- Journalists
- Graphic designers
- Information systems developers
- Video and audio producers
- Wildlife illustrators and public relations practitioners.
Formed in 2001, the School brings together a range of disciplines that are currently converging in the digital world. These disciplines, including graphic and visual design, communication and media arts, and information systems and information technology are becoming more and more critical as the Internet and online technologies changes the way the world communicates.
Facilities
In the Bachelor of Communication and the Bachelor of Information Technology, our students can study courses as diverse as music video production, 3D animation, website design, television production, and radio and sound recording. They can do this in our state-of-the-art facilities, which include:
- Full broadcast-quality digital television studio
- Radio studio equipped with sound recording facilities
- 11 post-production video edit suites
- Two audio edit suites
- Computer labs equipped with both Apple Macs and PCs.
Achievements
In 2008, our students have had music videos played on RAGE, they have recorded EPs for local bands, and created content for the JETS website and TV. Our graduates have gone on to work at Triple J, and been involved with the creation of films such as Happy Feet, working with Sydney's award-winning animation effects studio Animal Logic.
This year, a cohort of 40 communication students have been given the opportunity to travel to China for a month to work as flash quote gatherers at the Beijing Olympics, with a further 10 students remaining in China to work at the Paralympics. Read more about this story.
Our IT Graduates have gone on to work at international companies such as IBM and CSC, as well as at a range of IT companies and divisions around Australia, in areas as diverse as healthcare and manufacturing.
Our teaching and research emphasises the multidisciplinary nature of our professions, and through interactions with industry our staff and students focus on 'real world' applications to their disciplines. We are leaders in the recognition and support of practice-based research in creativity, and creative endeavours. Further, our areas of research excellence are wide-ranging, and explore the important areas of image analysis and processing, and health infomatics.
The School currently has around 1400 equivalent full time students studying a wide range of courses at campuses in Australia and Singapore, and our numbers have recently gone up as people respond to the range of excellent programs we offer.
