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Design and Human Functioning - GEND4202
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Faculty: College of Fine Arts
 
 
School:  College of Fine Arts
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.cofa.unsw.edu.au
 
 
Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 3
 
 
EFTSL: 0.062 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
None
 
 
Excluded: SDES1103
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course will introduce students to some of the psychological and physical characteristics of individual human functioning as factors in the design of objects, surfaces and spaces. The concepts explored will include the psychology of perception, theoretical approaches to the analysis of human behaviour, basic anatomy/biology/physiology, basic ergonomics and anthropometrics, analysis and measurements of the relationship between the human body and the design of macro and micro environments.

Note/s: Paddington Campus

Excluded: SDES1103

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