The plan of study is 36 credit hours. It includes four core courses, five to eight selective courses, and zero to three elective courses. Transfer students may be able to transfer in approved graduate courses from an accredited institution.
General core (12 credits)
- INFO-H 541 Interaction Design Practice
- INFO-H 543 Interaction Design Methods
- INFO-H 563 Psychology of HCI
- INFO-H 564 Prototyping for Interactive Systems
Selective courses (15-24 credits)
- INFO-H 517 Visualization Design, Analysis, and Evaluation
- INFO-H 554 Independent Study in HCI (Course permission required)
- INFO-H 561 Meaning and Form in HCI
- INFO-H 565 Collaborative and Social Computing
- INFO-H 566 Experience Design for Ubiquitous Computing
- INFO-H 567 IoT Interface Design for Business Innovation (Course permission required)
- INFO-H 570 Tangible/Embedded
- INFO-H 583 Conversational UI
- INFO-I 575 Informatics Research Design (Required for MS thesis students)
- INFO-I 590 Assistive Technologies
- INFO-I 590 Immersive Storytelling and Experience Design: Disney (Course permission required)
- INFO-I 590 Computer & Information Ethics
- INFO-I 595 Professional Internship (Course permission required, can take a total of six credits)
- HER-V 500 Visual Design for User Interface
Elective courses (0-9 credits)
Any graduate level course on campus that complements your HCI background, including any additional course from the selective list after the first four.
Pre-approved electives
Students must check for prerequisites and course availability from the respective schools and departments.
- HER-V 512 Intro to Design Thinking for Tackling Wicked Problems and Sensemaking
- HER-V 513 Design Methods for Framing Problems
- INFO-B 505 Informatics Project Management
- INFO-H 537 Legal and Social Informatics of Security
- INFO-H 559 Media & Tech Entrepreneurship
- INFO-I 590 Electronic Discovery
- Any NEWM-N 500 level course
Thesis option
The MS Thesis option is reserved for students who possess a demonstrated ability to carry out publishable empirical research. Qualified students must find a research-active faculty member willing to advise them on a thesis by the end of the first semester.
Students taking the Thesis option must take and successfully pass LIS-S 506 Introduction to Research or an equivalent research methods course decided in concert with the thesis advisor by the completion of their first year. It is the student’s responsibility to propose a thesis that can be completed within a two-semester timeline. To do this, students MUST provide their primary thesis advisor with a full thesis proposal and outline that includes a timeline for the writing of the thesis.