Interactive Media, User Experience Design Concentration, B.S.

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Interactive Media Requirements

This program requires a total of 50 semester hours: 1) 26 semester hours from the core courses listed below and 2) 24 semester hours completed in one of the following concentrations: Advanced Media Production, User Experience Design, and Purposeful Game Design. The semester hour value of each course appears in parentheses( ).

Complete all of the following Core courses - 26 semester hours:

CISC 120 - Programming I (4 semester hours)
IMED 110 - Introduction to Digital Design (2 semester hours)
IMED 140 - Introduction to Interactive Media (2 semester hours)
IMED 170 - Visual Design Fundamentals (3 semester hours)
IMED 240 - Interactive Media I (4 semester hours)
IMED 340 - Interactive Media II (4 semester hours)
IMED 370 - Producing Creative Projects (3 semester hours)
IMED 440 - Interactive Studio (4 semester hours)

User Experience Design Concentration - 24 semester hours

Complete all of the following courses - 24 semester hours

IMED 220 - Sociotechnical Theories (3 semester hours)
IMED 225 - Design Tools and Processes (3 semester hours)
IMED 270 - Research Methods for Interactive Design (3 semester hours)
IMED 280 - Usability and Interface Design (3 semester hours)
IMED 325 - Interactive Design Perspectives (3 semester hours)
IMED 355 - Users and Populations (3 semester hours)
IMED 358 - Patterns and Contexts (3 semester hours)
IMED 450 - Design Studio (3 semester hours)

Recommended Sequence for the Full-time Student Completing the User Experience Design Concentration

The sequence that appears below was developed based upon the availability of specific courses each semester and the successful completion of course prerequisites.

First Year

Fall Semester

ENGL 105 - College Composition (3 semester hours)
or
ENGL 106 - Academic Writing and Critical Thinking (3 semester hours)
MATH 120 - College Algebra (3 semester hours)
GEND 102 - The Creative Mind I (3 semester hours)
GEND 112 - The Scientific Mind: Physical Sciences (3 semester hours)
IMED 140 - Introduction to Interactive Media (2 semester hours)
SEMR 100 - Cornerstone (1 semester hour)

Total semester hours: 15

Spring Semester

COMM 110 - Speech (3 semester hours)
GEND 103 - The Creative Mind II (3 semester hours)
GEND 113 - The Scientific Mind: Life Sciences (3 semester hours)
CISC 120 - Programming I (4 semester hours)
IMED 110 - Introduction to Digital Design (2 semester hours)

Total semester hours: 15

Summer Semester

Optional

Second Year

Fall Semester

ENGL 200 - Advanced Composition and Technical Writing (3 semester hours)
IMED 170 - Visual Design Fundamentals (3 semester hours)
IMED 270 - Research Methods for Interactive Design (3 semester hours)
IMED 280 - Usability and Interface Design (3 semester hours)
MATH 280 - Introductory Statistics (3 semester hours)

Total semester hours: 15

Spring Semester

IMED 220 - Sociotechnical Theories (3 semester hours)
IMED 240 - Interactive Media I (4 semester hours)
IMED 225 - Design Tools and Processes (3 semester hours)
GEND Electives (3 semester hours)
SEMR 200 - Steppingstone (1 semester hour)

Total semester hours: 14

Summer Semester

Optional

Third Year

Fall Semester

IMED 298 - Project I (3 semester hours)
IMED 325 - Interactive Design Perspectives (3 semester hours)
IMED 355 - Users and Populations (3 semester hours)
IMED 370 - Producing Creative Projects (3 semester hours)
MATH 150 - Applied Mathematical Reasoning (3 semester hours)
SEMR 300 - Keystone (1 semester hour)

Total semester hours: 16

Spring Semester

IMED 340 - Interactive Media II (4 semester hours)
IMED 365 - Internship (3 semester hours)
IMED 358 - Patterns and Contexts (3 semester hours)
Electives (6 semester hours)

Total semester hours: 16

Summer Semester

Optional

Fourth Year

Fall Semester

GEND 351 - Organizational Mind (6 semester hours)
GEND Electives (3 semester hours)
IMED 450 - Design Studio (3 semester hours)
IMED 498 - Project II (3 semester hours)

Total semester hours: 15

Spring Semester

GEND 201 - The Civic Mind (6 semester hours)
IMED 440 - Interactive Studio (4 semester hours)
SEMR 400 - Capstone (1 semester hour)
Electives (3 semester hours)

Total semester hours: 14

Summer Semester

Optional