MS Human Centered Design
New York, USA
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
15 Dec 2024
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
USD 1,460 / per credit
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
The MS in Human-Centered Design blends art, design, psychology, and technology in a discipline that focuses on how people interact with machines. Whether you’re building smartphone apps, software for medical systems, business interfaces, or games, the user experience makes or breaks whether or not it’s successful.
The Value Proposition
- Blend creativity with science in an exciting program that dives deep into what makes people fall in love with an app—or delete it immediately.
- Get a thorough theoretical grounding in software design, the psychology of user experience, art theory, and much more in an interdisciplinary master’s program.
- Prepare for an exciting and lucrative career in UX/UI. As more and more organizations recognize the essential role that design plays in technology, the job market for UX professionals is exploding.
Course Overview
The MS in HCD is built from a solid foundation of core courses aimed to train you in concepts and current practices in the world of user experience and design. A wealth of elective courses enable you to focus on your particular area of interest. Two recommended tracks are available for students who’d like to concentrate on development or design and evaluation.
Add Opportunities and Experiences
The MS in Human-Centered Design is an invitation for students to join a lively and collaborative community at Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. With a thriving on-campus presence, Seidenberg offers a multitude of opportunities to all students looking to gain practical experience in their area of choice. Students in the program will have the opportunity to conduct research with faculty guidance, work in teams to prototype new products, and enjoy a huge range of internship and job opportunities. On top of that, you’ll meet an amazing network of fellow students and alumni who will become lifelong friends and collaborators.
The Seidenberg experience includes plenty of opportunities and experiences you won’t get at other places. For example, Seidenberg was the school first in the country to join the Design Factory Global Network—a consortium of 30+ research and engineering institutes worldwide with whom Pace students get to collaborate. Traveling to places like Finland, Geneva, Portugal, and Austria to build real products for paying companies is just part of the Seidenberg student experience with the New York City Design Factory.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Pace University offers students as much financial assistance as possible. Financial Aid can come in many forms, including scholarships and grants, work-study, and student loans. Financial Aid award packages offered by Pace University typically consist of a combination of awards from these types of aid programs.
General Rules Covering All Financial Aid
- Any combination of tuition-specific Pace-funded scholarships, grants, or awards and New York State or other tuition-specific funding cannot exceed your actual tuition charges.
- All financial aid combined may not exceed your Cost of Attendance.
- You must be matriculated in a degree program at Pace University to receive any financial aid other than Alternative Loans. (Note that some certificate program students also qualify). Matriculated means that you are admitted to and enrolled in a degree or applicable certificate program.
- Generally, students must be enrolled at least half-time (6 credits per semester) to qualify for aid. Exceptions are Federal Pell Grants and Alternative Loans.
- To review basic eligibility criteria for Pace University, Federal, and New York State aid programs please visit our General Eligibility section.
Pace Scholarships and Resources
- Institutional Scholarships and Grants
- Federal Grants
- New York State Scholarships and Grants
- Third-Party Scholarship Resources
Curriculum
Required Foundation Courses
- IS 638 Introduction to User Experience Design: 3 credits
- CS 659 Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction: 3 credits
- IS 628 Research Methods and User Experience: 3 credits
- CS 663 Human Factors and Usability Matrix: 3 credits
- IS 630 Prototyping and User Experience: 3 credits
- IS 691 OR CS 665 UX Capstone Project OR Product Development Project: 3 credits
Electives
Development Concentration
- CS 641 Mobile Web Content and Development: 3 credits
- CS 639 Mobile Application Development: 3 credits
- CS 643 Mobile Innovations for Global Challenges: 3 credits
- IS 629 Programming User Interfaces: 3 credits
- IS 612 Introduction to Coding: 3 credits
- IS 623 Information Systems Design and Development: 3 credits
Design and Evaluation Concentration
- IS 690E Information Architecture: 3 credits
- IS 627 Visual Design for Technology: 3 credits
- IS 665 Introduction to Data Mining and Visualization: 3 credits
- IS 617 Information Systems Principles: 3 credits
- IS 676 Foundations of Social and Mobile Technologies: 3 credits
- IS 686 Social and Collaborative Computing: 3 credits
- IS 679 Cognitive Science and Technology: 3 credits
Career Opportunities
Choose Your Career
Apps and technology services that are intuitive, easy to use, and look good require expert design with a focus on the human user. As more and more companies are discovering how important having quality websites and applications is, jobs in user experience abound.
Career Options
- Information Architect
- Product Manager
- Product designer
- Project Manager
- Software engineer
- System Analyst
- UX researcher
- UX/UI designer
- Web designer
- Web marketer
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