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CAS Digital Communication Environments

Why do a CAS in Digital Communication Environments? Reasons include that you want to advance your experimental design practice, acquire new technical skills, reflect on your design decisions in a broader context or that you are interested in research. The topics offered in Digital Communication Environments – Digital Media, Graphic Design, Typography and Design Research – can be put together to create a personalised continuing education programme. This CAS has a modular structure and allows participants to tailor the continuing education programme to meet their individual needs.

Key data

Degree
CAS FHNW Certificate of Advanced Studies
ECTS points
15 ECTS
Next start
after successfully participating in at least 5 weeks of either the Summer or Winter Workshops of HGK FHNW
Teaching language
German / English
Place
Basel
Price
cf. Fees below


Workshop Modules

Upon prior agreement, attendance at five one-week workshop modules with 2 ECTS credits each may be credited towards the CAS Digital Communication Environments. This will count as 10 of the 15 credit points required for the CAS Digital Communication Environments.

Combine your personal CAS continued-education studies based on our currently available workshop modules:

Inquiry by Design

to Inquiry by Design

Design History – the Myth of Swiss Style

to Design History – the Myth of Swiss Style

Poster Design

to Poster Design

Generative Design

to Generative Design

Design Research

to Design Research

Perception Studies

to Perception Studies

Type Design

to Type Design

Institute Digital Communication Environments (IDCE)

Through digital media and the democratisation of communication channels that goes hand in hand with it, the critical handling of their visual and interaction-based design has become decisively more important, because the social relevance of information and communication has thus fundamentally changed.

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Institute Digital Communication Environments IDCE

FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland Basel Academy of Art and Design, Institute Digital Communication Environments (IDCE) High-rise: D 5.03 Freilager-Platz 1 CH - 4142 Münchenstein near Basel