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Art and Design, MA Web and User Experience Emphasis

30 credit hours

The Master of Arts in Art & Design with an Emphasis in Web and User Experience consist of 15 credit hours focused on graduate level research and discovery and 15 credit hours selected from courses associated with the emphasis. Students should expect to be challenged in each course as well as being provided opportunities to enhance their portfolios as they gain valuable skills needed to work in the industry. Students will learn to work with clients, embrace usability experience conventions, use HTML, CSS, & JavaScript to author websites, work with popular Content Management Systems, leverage frameworks and libraries, conduct independent research, and understand the role that digital marketing can make in their work.

Requirements

Major Coursework

15 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

CAH 50000Research Methods

3
CAH 51000Research and Scholastic Writing

3
CAH 55000Graduate Seminar

3
CAH 60000Thesis/Directed Project I

3
CAH 61000Thesis/Directed Project II

3

Emphasis Coursework

15 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

AAD 51000Design with Illustrator

3
AAD 51600Drag and Drop Web Design

3
AAD 52200Motion Graphics

3
AAD 52450Applications for Mobile Devices

3
AAD 52500Desktop Publishing

3
AAD 52700-52799Focus in Design

3
AAD 53001Digital Photography

3
AAD 53100-53199Focus in Interactive

3
AAD 53200-53299Focus in Web

3
AAD 533103D Printing

3
AAD 536003D Graphics

3
AAD 55100Typography I

3
AAD 55400Graduate Web Design I

3
AAD 55501Visual Branding

3
AAD 56400Graduate Web Design II

3
AAD 57440Graduate Web Design III

3
AAD 59000-59999Special Topics

1-3
CAH 53000Arts Entrepreneurship

3
CAH 59000-59999Special Topics

1-3
CINE 58000Editing for Film and Video

3
COM 55000Media Literacy

3
DCS 52200Emerging Platforms and Analytics

3
DCS 55000Personal Branding

3
GAM 570003D Animation

3