About
Teaching in the Department of Design is offered at Bachelor's and Master's degree level.
In six semesters, the Bachelor of Arts in Design teaches subject-specific fundamentals and the necessary skills for entering design-oriented professional practice. Students choose one of seven Majors for their creative and theoretical training: Game Design, Cast/Audiovisual Media, Knowledge Visualization, Visual Communication, Interaction Design, Industrial Design, Trends & Identity. After successful degree completion, graduates work for design, communication and innovation agencies, are employed in the design, development, marketing or media departments of large and small companies, venture into self-employment alone or together with fellow graduates or expand their design expertise with a Master's degree.
In the Master of Arts in Design, designers and design-affiliated professionals deepen their skills in one of the Department of Design's six Majors and achieve professional excellence. The focus is on acquiring a research-oriented working and thinking practice. Personal responsibility, the ability to develop a responsible, interdisciplinary approach to design and the foundations for entrepreneurial action prepare students for subsequent career steps and also guarantee their ability to continue on to higher education.
Major-Minor
Whether design, film, fine arts, music, dance, theater, transdisciplinarity or art education: the ZHdK offers its students a range of courses that is unique in Europe and can be combined across disciplines. In the future, students will be able to sharpen their educational profile individually and decide whether they want to deepen the skills they have learned in their major with content from numerous newly created minors or expand them across disciplines. For a Bachelor's degree program, the application for a major is submitted first, taking into account the relevant admission requirements. In the first year of study, students concentrate on the major; it is only after one year that the individual minors are chosen.
The major-minor study model will be introduced in stages. The Bachelor's degree will start in fall 2023, the Master's degree will follow in 2024 and the minor will be open from 2024.
Majors offered in the Department of Design:
Cast / Audiovisual Media BA
Interaction Design BA MA
Knowledge Visualization BA MA
Industrial Design BA MA
Trends & Identity BA MA
Game Design BA MA
Visual Communication BA MA
Minors offered in the Department of Design:
Experimental Interaction
Health Design
Experience Design
Sustainable Design
Digital Play
Publishing
Social. Media. Storytelling.
Visual Literacy
Student Design Agency
Creators’ Room
Global Design
Design Theory
Serious Games & Virtual Learning Environments