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Requirements and Learning Outcomes

Earn your Doctor of Science in Information and Interaction Design at UBalt.   

Degree Requirements

D.Sc. in Information and Interaction Design

  • These requirements apply to students entering this program in fall 2024 and thereafter. Students who enrolled earlier should consult the catalog in effect at the time they enrolled.

  • Read the course descriptions.

This 48-credit program requires:

  • IDIA 612 Interaction and Interface Design OR IDIA 712 Topics in Advanced Interaction Design
  • IDIA 640 Humans, Computers and Cognition OR IDIA 740 Topics in Computers and Cognition
  • IDIA 642 Applied User Research for UX
  • IDIA 715 Managing UX Projects
  • IDIA 742 Topics in User Research
  • IDIA 810 Proseminar
  • IDIA 842 Experimental Methods for User Research
  • APPL 631 Intermediate Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences OR IDIA 841 Statistics and Quantitative Analysis for UX

Select four courses from the following:

  • IDIA 614 Sequential Visualization and Analysis
  • IDIA 616 Designing for Mobile Web
  • IDIA 618 Dynamic Web Sites
  • IDIA 619 Interactive Multimedia
  • IDIA 630 Information Architecture
  • IDIA 712 Topics in Advanced Interaction Design
  • IDIA 730 Topics in Advanced Information Architecture
  • IDIA 750 Special Topics
  • APPL 603 Learning and Cognition 

More about the dissertation.

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES

ASSURANCE OF LEARNING: D.SC. OF INFORMATION AND INTERACTION DESIGN

Mission Statement

The Information and Interaction Design doctoral program encourages innovation and discovery in the study of information and interaction. Through interdisciplinary course in topics like cognitive psychology, library science, computer science, user research, and interaction design, student become leaders, innovators, and researchers in the fields of user experience design, user research, and the use of technology in education.

 

Program-Level Student Learning Outcomes

Upon graduating from the D.Sc. in Information and Interaction Design program, students will be able to:

Conduct well-designed quantitative and qualitative user research

Communicate research findings to academic and industry audiences

Evaluate research methods used in user research studies performed by others

Develop information systems that meet the needs of a global and diverse audience and that can accommodate change and growth

Develop new conceptual models and hypotheses of interaction design based on both existing interaction design knowledge and user-centered iterative design

Evaluate the social and cultural effects of information systems and their implementations.