CUA50720 Diploma of Graphic Design

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for CUA50720 ended on 11 August 2025 — 13 months ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 13 August 2026 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

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Product type
Qualification
Training package
CUA — Creative Arts and Culture Training Package
Currency period ends
11 August 2025
Latest release
Release 3 · 19 October 2022 · 3 releases in all
Supersedes
CUA50715
Superseded by
CUA50725 not equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. CUA50720Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Graphic Design
  2. not equivalent
  3. CUA50725CurrentDiploma of Graphic Design

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • CUA50715CUA50720equivalent15 April 2021

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

  • CUA50720CUA50725not equivalent12 August 2025

    All superseded imported units have been replaced with the most current unit. All deleted imported units have been removed. Deleted units include some which form part of a specialisation within the qualification.

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What CUA50720 is made of

training.gov.au lists 76 units for CUA50720: 9 core and 67 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 9 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
CUAACD531Refine drawing and other visual representation toolscurrent
CUADES413Develop and extend design skills and practicecurrent
CUAGRD501Research visual communication history and theorycurrent
CUAGRD502Produce graphic designs for 2-D and 3-D applicationscurrent
CUAGRD503Produce typographic design solutionscurrent
CUAGRD514Create and manipulate graphicscurrent
CUAGRD515Design and manipulate complex layoutscurrent
CUAGRD516Develop graphic design practice to meet industry needscurrent
CUAPPR513Present a body of own creative workcurrent

Elective units 67 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBCMM411Make presentationscurrent
BSBCRT412Articulate, present and debate ideascurrent
BSBCRT413Collaborate in creative processescurrent
BSBCRT512Originate and develop conceptscurrent
BSBESB402Establish legal and risk management requirements of new business venturescurrent
BSBLEG525Apply legal principles in intellectual property law matterscurrent
BSBMKG437Create and optimise digital mediacurrent
BSBMKG439Develop and apply knowledge of communications industrycurrent
BSBMKG546Develop social media engagement planscurrent
BSBMKG551Create multiplatform advertisements for mass mediacurrent
BSBMKG555Write persuasive copycurrent
BSBPEF501Manage personal and professional developmentcurrent
BSBPMG430Undertake project workcurrent
BSBPRC402Negotiate contractscurrent
BSBTEC501Develop and implement an e-commerce strategycurrent
BSBTWK401Build and maintain business relationshipscurrent
BSBWHS501Ensure a safe workplacenot current
BSBWHS512Contribute to managing work-related psychological health and safetycurrent
BSBWRT411Write complex documentscurrent
CUAACD522Work with photomedia in creative practicecurrent
CUAACD532Create observational drawingscurrent
CUAACD533Select and refine a specialised drawing techniquecurrent
CUAACD534Research and apply light and colourcurrent
CUAACD536Refine 2-D design ideas and processescurrent
CUAACD537Refine 3-D design ideas and processescurrent
CUAANM513Design specifications for animation and digital visual effectscurrent
CUACMP511Manage copyright arrangementscurrent
CUADES412Interpret and respond to a design briefcurrent
CUADES511Implement design solutionscurrent
CUADES512Establish, negotiate and refine a design briefcurrent
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CodeUnitIn this product
CUADIG304Create visual design componentscurrent
CUADIG401Author interactive mediacurrent
CUADIG413Create user interfacescurrent
CUADIG511Coordinate testing of interactive media productscurrent
CUADIG512Design digital applicationscurrent
CUADIG513Design e-learning resourcescurrent
CUADIG516Design interactionscurrent
CUADIG517Design digital simulationscurrent
CUADIG519Investigate technologies for the creation of digital artcurrent
CUAFIM511Source funding for projectscurrent
CUAILL401Develop and refine illustrative workcurrent
CUAILL511Develop professional illustrationscurrent
CUAILL512Refine illustration techniquescurrent
CUAIND411Extend expertise in specialist creative fieldscurrent
CUAIND412Provide freelance servicescurrent
CUAIND512Enhance professional practice using creative arts industry knowledgecurrent
CUAMWB401Develop and implement own self-care plan in the creative industriescurrent
CUAMWB402Manage feedback on creative practicecurrent
CUAMWB403Prepare to work with confronting material and processes in the creative industriescurrent
CUAPHI523Employ colour management in a digital imaging workplacecurrent
CUAPHI524Prepare digital images for pre-press processingcurrent
CUAPHI531Apply visual communication theory to photo imaging practicecurrent
CUAPOS412Manage media assetscurrent
CUAPPR408Integrate disability access and inclusioncurrent
CUAPPR511Realise a body of creative workcurrent
CUAPPR512Develop sustainability of own professional practicecurrent
CUAPPR514Establish and maintain environmentally sustainable creative practicecurrent
CUASOU304Prepare audio assetscurrent
FNSORG501Develop and manage a budgetcurrent
ICPPRN3840Set up and produce basic digital printcurrent
ICPPRN4960Set up and produce complex digital printcurrent
ICPPRP422Digitise complex images for reproductioncurrent
ICPPRP4300Manage colourcurrent
ICPPRP4350Generate complex impositioncurrent
ICPPRP4840Set up and operate automated workflowcurrent
ICTWEB513Build dynamic websitescurrent
SITXEBS003Build and launch a small business websitenot current

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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