Meeting 2 August 2006

Upper Division Classes

[note: I took the liberty of numbering the courses. This makes it easier to represent paths (see below). I also renamed the courses to "Upper Division" rather than "Year Three" - Ron]

Media:

• 1. narrative
• 2. video
• 3. advanced video
• 4. animation
• 5. game design

• 6. interface design

Advanced interface design beginning with the advent of visual communications and moving type to interfaces for desktop, mobile, and large-scale applications.

• 7. interaction design(2) methods

Examines concepts of design practice and design methods for interaction designers. Students will study a range of design methods for idea generation, requirements gathering, conceptualization, prototyping, and evaluation in a project setting.

• 8. interactive prototypes

Develops programming, scripting, physical computing, and form-making skills for developing combined software, and hardware prototype versions of interactive products and systems.

• 9. design evaluation

Examines evaluation concepts and methods for interaction designers. Analyzes the range of evaluation approaches including informal evaluation, usability, field studies, heuristics, critique and discursive evaluation.

• 10. participatory design

Students learn participatory design as a method for analysis and gathering requirements for design situations that provides an in-depth contextual understanding of the design and enables end-users as designers. Examines the conceptual frameworks for understanding human action and context in organizational design situations. This course assigns small teams to design with industry, non-profit, and government organizations.

• 11. body interface
• 12. installation + performance
• 13. kinesthetic space

• 14. info viz/graphics for viz
• 15. knowledge + info architectures
• 16. HCI 2
• 17. software engineering
• 18. computational media
• 19. authoring environments
• 20. videogame design & programming

• 21. culture

Suggested Paths:

• Game design - Names to appear
• Performance art
• video post production
• video & film production
• future architects
• Information Design and architecture

Required: 1, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17; Suggested electives: 5, 8, 12, 19, 21

• UI designer

Required: 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 16, 17, 19; Suggested electives: 1, 2, 5, 10, 13, 15, 21

• web design and architecture

Required: 6, 7, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21; Suggested electives: 1, 4, 5, 8, 13, 19, 20

• web 2.0 architect
• communications officer
• interactive product designer

Required: 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 21; Suggested Electives: 1, 3, 12, 13, 15, 17

• interaction designer

Required: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 21; Suggested electives: 1, 2, 5, 12, 13, 17, 19

• user experience Design

Required: 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 21; Suggested Electives: 2, 5, 12, 13, 14, 15

• usability professional

Required: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 16, 17; Suggested Electives: 1, 2, 11, 13, 15, 19, 21

• grad school
• theory wonk
• graphic design
• game design
• computer animator
• VR
• installation designer (museums, etc)
• planner (city planner, etc)
• exhibition designer

Required: 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 21 Suggested electives: 2, 5, 11, 12, 16

• info viz
• corporate branding
• network architect
• pre MBA
• software engineer
• toy design
• project manager
• informatics of : media, design, etc