Bachelor of Design and Technology in Visualisations and Graphics

at Western Sydney University - Parramatta City Campus Australia

Turn your passion for language into a world-spanning career. This degree gives you the skills you need to combine travel and career opportunities, both home and abroad. With a Master of Interpreting and Translation behind you, the world truly is yours.

As business and social interactions cross global borders, the need for qualified interpreters and English language teachers continues to grow. At Western, we can help turn your passion for language into a world-spanning career.

Our Master of Interpreting and Translation gives fluent bilinguals the theoretical background and advanced skills necessary to work as a professional interpreter or translator, with particular emphasis on Legal and Medical Interpreting. We also deliver studies in Audiovisual Translation, something no other university currently offers.

Taught at our new, innovative Parramatta City Campus, this degree gives you the skills you need to combine travel and career opportunities, both home and abroad. With a masters from Western behind you, the world truly is yours.

Project management plays an important role in most, if not all, occupations. Be skilled and prepared to apply key project management concepts and practices across a variety of professions.

Our graduates are proficient in domain-specific customising of a project management life cycle and in developing comprehensive project plans involving cost and quality control, managing risks and stakeholders. You will also develop efficient schedules while being able to act as an effective communicator.

Since project management occurs in a team setting, our project managers are taught to master team leadership and to understand team dynamics and behaviour in different team settings.

Industrial design is a vital part of modern-day living. Every day of our lives, we encounter products designed and manufactured with the intention of making our lives easier. It is industrial designers, incorporating a lateral and cross-disciplinary approach to problem solving, who create the most useful products.

The primary focus of our Industrial Design program is ensuring that our graduates are completely industry-ready, able to think strategically and provide innovative design solutions in a commercial context. The program promotes an awareness of the place of design in society and its effect on people, the environment and the economy, and provides students with the ability to work independently or collaboratively.

Technology Entrepreneurship

The Technology Entrepreneurship major is focused on guiding students through all stages of turning their innovative idea into a start-up company. In an entrepreneurial ecosystem, you will learn the knowledge and techniques for opportunity discovery, impact analysis, customer analysis, strategic team-building and leadership, the psychology and ethics of the start-up, funding modelling and financial analysis, growth and exit strategies. We will be helping you with defining your idea, forming a team around it, building a prototype, developing a pitch for investors and running a start-up company.

The Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) program is designed for students with interests in learning to address humanity’s issues and challenges through the development and deployment of technical solutions.

This program spans all major engineering domains and prioritises industry relevance via an emphasis on work integrated learning to ensure students are career-ready on graduation. In addition to becoming technical experts in their chosen field of specialisation, students are also challenged to become collaborative and innovative problem solvers with an appreciation for the importance of sustainability and global citizenship.

Sustainability

Human society is facing ever increasing challenges from changing climate, expanding populations and industrial development. Traditional approaches to solve environmental problems needs rethinking and should consider circular economy, life cycle thinking, climate smartness, digitisation. In this Major, students assess various challenges in provision of water, food, infrastructure and energy then propose design solutions using holistic, futuristic and sustainable technologies and strategies. Through hands-on, real-life projects, students explore solutions that integrate technical, technological (IoT), social, cultural, geographical, regulatory and ethical factors. This major will benefit students aiming for careers such as Environmental Engineer/Scientist/Consultant, Natural Resources Manager, Waste Engineer/Manger/ Consultant, and Sustainability Engineer/ Manager/ Consultant.

At Western Sydney University our Master of Urban Management and Planning degree gives you the education, skills and real world knowledge needed to help shape the future of the way we live.

Located at the center of Sydney’s population growth, our Parramatta City Campus gives you a unique insight into the modern challenges of planning and urban living.

Learning from internationally recognised scholars, you’ll be equipped with a breadth of knowledge and understanding to further your career in planning and management with local, state, national and international agencies as well as in the private and community sector.

The Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) program is designed for students with interests in learning to address humanity’s issues and challenges through the development and deployment of technical solutions.

This program spans all major engineering domains and prioritises industry relevance via an emphasis on work integrated learning to ensure students are career-ready on graduation. In addition to becoming technical experts in their chosen field of specialisation, students are also challenged to become collaborative and innovative problem solvers with an appreciation for the importance of sustainability and global citizenship.

Materials

Since the dawning of mankind an understanding of how materials can be obtained and used has been critical to successful human endeavour. Materials engineers are concerned with the highly technological and dynamic process of understanding, developing, and applying materials (metals, polymers, ceramics, composites) to a range of engineering problems. Students will develop skills necessary to synthesise relevant information so that they can be effective decision makers in a materials context. These skills will serve them well in varied career opportunities associated with biomedical devices, nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing, opto-electronics, energy, aerospace, and sustainable construction.

Graduate destinations include:
Materials engineers, Materials selection specialists, High temperature applications specialists, Extreme environments specialists, Advanced materials processing and development specialists, Semiconductor/electronic materials specialists, metallurgical and related process engineering.

This program aims to equip students with knowledge of the theoretical aspects that underpin interpreting and translation, including linguistics, and with the research techniques necessary to conduct a small research project in the area of interpreting and translation.

It also focuses on practical interpreting and translation skills. The program is suitable for practising interpreters and translators and for very proficient bilinguals wanting to develop or improve their skills, and who wish to contribute to the body of knowledge on interpreting and translation by conducting innovative, much needed research.

Accounting jobs today require expertise and the ability to communicate effectively. By studying the Master of Professional Accounting program you will be provided the opportunity to think critically and communicate effectively whilst engaging with the community through industry partnerships.

The Master of Professional Accounting is an accredited graduate conversion program. It provides opportunities for applicants holding a degree (recognised as equivalent to an Australian three year undergraduate degree) in any discipline, other than an accredited accounting major, to complete the pre-entry educational requirements for CPA Australia, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) and the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA).

The program delivers a contemporary education in accounting principles and procedures supported by knowledge of associated disciplines of law, economics and finance. During this program you will learn how to apply accounting concepts, theories and models through a range of individual and collaborative means, including industry relevant projects and realistic business problems.

Advance your business career with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Western’s acclaimed Sydney Graduate School of Management.

This degree offers a unique range of majors, including Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Human Resource Management, Property, Management, Sustainable Business, Finance and Investment, Marketing, Information and Communications Technology, and Business Analytics.

Wherever you are in your professional journey, the Sydney Graduate School of Management at Western can help take you to the next level. The Master of Business Administration (MBA), arms you with advanced management skills and a comprehensive understanding of the global business environment.

Gaining practical experience is also a cornerstone of the SGSM MBA program, and is supported by our strong links with Australian businesses, such as PWC, Linfox, Deloitte, CNHI, Morningstar and others. You will have the opportunity to complete either a business internship or a business project subject, applying the knowledge you have gained during the program of your degree.

The aim of our MBA is to ensure you emerge with a proven ability to solve real-world business problems and advance your career. You don’t need to have studied business before, or have relevant work experience. We help you develop your expertise as you work through the program. You’ll finish your Master program ready to take on the world.

The only degree of its kind in Australia, the Master of Humanitarian and Development Studies responds to the need for qualified workers in disaster relief and development, in government and non-government agencies involved in humanitarian operations and development practice.

Humanitarian disasters will continue to occur around the world, and there is a continuous need for skilled humanitarian workers. Change makers like you are required to deliver specialist humanitarian aid relief to people dealing with disasters. That’s the focus of our Master of Humanitarian and Development Studies.

This degree encompasses both the aid and health sectors with a focus on rehabilitation and development. Through a mix of practical and theoretical learning you’ll gain an understanding of the complexity of development and see how humanitarian assistance works hand-in-hand with international development aid efforts.

With the Master degree you’ll also gain a truly global point of view with international placement with one of our education partners. Mixing online and on campus learning, the Humanitarian and Development programs are available at a Master, Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate level.