Graduate certificate in Design Management
- Country Canada
- Course Duration 1 year
- Course Type Full Time
- Courses Campus On Campus
- Language Specification IELTS
- Program Level Post-Graduate
- Education Required 2-Year Undergraduate Diploma
- Admission intake SEP
- Minimum GPA 50
Application Charges
| Application Fee | Tution Fee |
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| CAD 110 | CAD 19,710 |
Application Date
| Application Start Date | Application Closing Date |
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2022-12-05
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Program Description
This postgraduate program in Design Management builds the skills needed to lead a multidisciplinary design team. You will learn how to develop design strategies for products and services based on business objectives. This program teaches practical tools and interpersonal facilitative skills, as well as the business knowledge required to manage a consultancy or corporate design division.Who should take this program:
- Design professionals with a global perspective who want to become active partners in helping firms develop and grow through expanded participation in strategic management.
- Designers looking to enhance their career opportunities in supervisory or management positions.
- Designers seeking to integrate strategic design into the workplace.
- Designers with an entrepreneurial spirit looking to start their own company.
Your Field Education Options
A mandatory Design Management Internship (DESN1031) course is taken in semester 2. An external field placement role is not guaranteed in this course; students who are not placed externally will engage in a Work Integrated Project. The work term is a total of 120 hours, part-time, over an 8-week period. The Design Management Internship provides students with exposure to a Design Manager in a Canadian workplace environment.
Program Learning Outcomes
The graduate demonstrates the ability to:
- Manage multidisciplinary design groups using practical working models of management systems.
- Analyze evolving market needs to identify design strategies required for the development of new products and services.
- Plan, implement and control project plans that are flexible and reflect the evolutionary environment of the design process.
- Enhance leadership skills, management skills and design expertise through the development of personal professional development strategies and plans.
- Establish working relationships with clients, customers and designers which maintain and strengthen their loyalty to their organization, as well as recognize design discipline protocols.
- Develop and implement business strategies to recruit clients and new business opportunities.
- Design and deliver sales presentations persuasively and accurately in oral, written, graphic and digital form.
- Formulate and present comprehensive business plans for design projects.
- Develop design strategies based on perceived value, competitive pressures and corporate objectives.
- Evaluate results of design activities using criteria relating to application of best practices, costs and profits.
Extra Notes
* NOTE : The Tuition Fee is subject to change Semester wise, as such for exact Tuition Fee kindly see the Website of the respective University.
* NOTE : Pathways : Students who want to pursue a Graduate Degree through a particular University but are unable to meet the university requirements for the GPA, GRE/GMAT or English Language scores, have to take up an additional academic and language support i.e. pathways in order to ensure the admit and study at the desired University.
* NOTE : Pathways : Students who want to pursue a Graduate Degree through a particular University but are unable to meet the university requirements for the GPA, GRE/GMAT or English Language scores, have to take up an additional academic and language support i.e. pathways in order to ensure the admit and study at the desired University.
