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User Experience Design – (M.Sc.)
Kingston University
Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 6,040 - ≈ € 12,520 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Kingston University
This programme runs as part of a suite of six courses available from Digital Media Kingston: MA/MSc User Experience Design, MA/MSc Games Development and MA/MSc 3D Computer Generated Imagery.
This new suite of courses are twinned across the arts and sciences to prepare you for employment in the digital media industry where teams of specialists work together to develop and author innovative digital media projects.
The courses have been specifically designed to utilise the best digital media expertise and resources from across the four faculties of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA); Art and Social Sciences (FASS); Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics (CISM); and Science (SCi). They have been developed in consultation with our industry panel, which includes representatives from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, DreamWorks and Samsung Design Europe.
The emphasis on project and team work provides an industry-focused learning experience where you can hone your own specialist skills in a professional context. Work placements, real projects, internships and an industry mentoring scheme mean these courses will arm you for entry into the fast-growing and highly competitive digital media arena.
What will you study?
In the introductory part of the course, common across all DMI courses, you will work with other students from diverse academic, creative and technical backgrounds to experience the commonalities in professional digital media practice.
The second part of the course looks at the core skills behind user-centred development, focusing on the analysis and design of multimodal, multimedia user interfaces that are easy to use and support compelling user experiences, and discover a range of relevant user theories (psychological, social etc) and their relevance to experience design.
The specialist modules focus on developing and contributing to projects in collaboration with other students from across the full DMI suite. The option modules include a design project, usability engineering, and/or mark-up languages, scripting and other 'high level' programming languages.
For your final project, you will take a professional role (eg user interface designer, user experience designer, information architect etc) in a team with other students to produce a professional piece of work.
Contents
Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.
The full MSc consists of six core modules (two common to Digital Media Institute courses, and four common to Interaction Design), two option modules and a research project.
Core modules
* Digital Interdisciplinary Practice
* Digital Content Production Processes
* Experience Design I
* Experience Design II
* User Factors
* Usability Engineering
Option modules
* E-Technologies
* E-Business
* Introduction to Programming with Java
* Agile Development
* Craft Project
* Live Project
* Projects and Risk Management
* Requirements Engineering and Management
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Requirements
A BSc(Hons) degree or equivalent qualification in a related subject such as mathematics, physics or computer science.
International students must have an IELTS score of 6.5 IELTS or equivalent.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
Accreditation
Many of the courses that we run are accredited and recognised by relevant professional bodies within their respective fields. As part of our commitment to providing quality, relevant courses we seek accreditation and recognition wherever possible. In fact the Higher Education Funding Council of England awarded us a quality rating for 'Excellence in teaching'.
Kingston Business School is also one of an elite number of UK business schools with Association of MBA accreditation of our MBA courses. Plus we have received EPAS accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development for several of our postgraduate and undergraduate business programmes; only the second UK business school to receive this accreditation.
To view a full list of our accreditations, please visit our website.
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