BS in User Experience Design

Bachelor of Science 2024 through2025

User Experience Design

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Students in the BS User Experience Design program are forbidden from minoring in User Experience Design.

Curriculum Requirements

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First Year

  • GD 105 Intro to Visual Design
  • IT 130 Introductory Computing for the Web
  • IT 240 Introduction to Databases
  • UXD 101 Design Principles for User Experience Design
  • UXD 210 Introduction to User Experience Design
  • UXD 220 Prototyping Methods I
Liberal Studies Requirements
  • LSP 110 Discover Chicago
    OR LSP 111 Explore Chicago
  • LSP 112 Focal Point Seminar
  • WRD 103 Composition and Rhetoric I
  • WRD 104 Composition and Rhetoric II
  • 1 Arts and Literature
  • 1 Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Inquiry




Second Year

  • INTD 151 Design Resources Exploration (2 credit hours)
  • GD 232 Typography: Systems
  • UXD 225 Coding Design Frameworks
  • UXD 260 User Experience Research and Evaluation
  • UXD 270 User-Centered Web Design
  • UXD 320 Prototyping Methods II
  • Tools Course (one 2-credit course; see list below)
Liberal Studies Requirements
  • LSP 200 Seminar on Race, Power, and Resistance
  • 1 Arts & Literature
  • 1 Historical Inquiry
  • 1 Philosophical Inquiry (Ethics)
  • 1 Religious Dimensions
  • 1 Scientific Inquiry Lab

Third Year

  • CSS 378 Community-Based Technology Projects
  • INTD 251 Design Portfolio Development (2 credit hours)
  • IT 223 Data Analysis
  • UXD 222 Introduction to Data Visualization Design
  • One (1) 2 credit hours Tools Courses
  • Eight (8) credit hours in Focus Area Electives
Liberal Studies Requirements
  • 1 Arts & Literature
  • 1 Historical Inquiry
  • 1 Philosophical Inquiry
  • 1 Religious Dimensions
  • 1 Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Inquiry
  • PSY 105 Introductory Psychology I

Fourth Year

  • UXD 329 Ethics, Data, Artificial Intelligence and Human Centered Design
  • UXD 394 User Experience Design Capstone I (EL)
  • UXD 395 User Experience Design Capstone II (capstone)
  • Sixteen (16) credit hours in Focus-Area Electives

Focus Area Electives

Students must select the required number of Focus Area Elective credit hours from the following list:

  • CMNS 201 Business and Professional Communication
  • CSEC 345 Human-Centered Cybersecurity
  • GD 109 Web Design Tools Workshop
  • GD 110 Web Design
  • GD 200 Graphic Design: Form
  • GD 215 Web Design for Commercial Projects
  • IT 212 Applied OO Programming
  • IT 238 Interactive Web Scripting
  • IT 320 Content Management Systems
  • IT 330 User Interface Development for Interactive Systems
  • UXD 227 Artificial Intelligence Tools in User-Centered Design
  • UXD 381 Quantitative Design Research Methods
  • UXD 382 Qualitative Design Research Methods
  • UXD 390 Special Topics in User Experience Design

Tools

Students must select the required number of Tools Course credit hours from the following list:

  • EXP 210 Design and Fabrication for Physical Space Workshop
  • EXP 250 Hardware Design Basics Workshop
  • GD 150 Illustrator Workshop
  • GD 151 Photoshop Workshop
  • GD 152 Indesign Workshop
  • UXD 251 Ui/Ux Prototyping Workshop

Open Electives

Open Elective Credit Hours are required to meet the minimum graduation requirements of 192 hours. Open electives may be taken from any unit at DePaul.

Liberal Studies

The Liberal Studies program is the general education portion of the curriculum at DePaul University. Students must earn a grade of D or better in all courses taken to satisfy these requirements. The only exception is the Capstone course which is considered also a major requirement and WRD 103 and WRD 104 in which students need to earn a C- or better.

Students may choose to take some CDM courses that carry Liberal Studies credit but they cannot double count them if they are part of the major requirements. A complete list of courses that carry Liberal Studies credit can be found on the Liberal Studies website along with an overview of the Liberal Studies requirements for this program. Students can search for courses that satisfy a particular Liberal Studies requirement on campusconnect.

Note Students must complete an ethics class as one of the Philosophical Inquiry or Religious Dimensions requirements. Students must take one of the following ethics courses: CSC 208, IT 228, PHL 248/MGT 248 or REL 228/MGT 228. In this sample schedule the ethics requirement replaces one of the Philosophical Inquiry requirements.

Students must complete PSY 105 Introductory Psychology I as one of the three required Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Inquiry requirements.

Although students are free to take course requirements in any order they choose, provided they have mastered the course-specific prerequisites, it is strongly recommended that students follow these year-by-year suggestions, especially regarding the first-year major courses.

Courses offered in the student's primary major cannot be taken to fulfill LSP Domain requirements.

Although students are free to take course requirements in any order they choose, provided they have mastered the course-specific prerequisites, it is strongly recommended that students follow these year-by-year suggestions, especially regarding the first-year major courses.

Courses offered in the student's primary major cannot be taken to fulfill LSP Domain requirements.

Degree Requirements

Students in this degree must meet the following requirements

  • complete a minimum of 192 credit hours (generally 48 courses)
  • Earn a grade of C- or higher in WRD 103, WRD 104, and all Major and Minor courses
  • Earn a grade of D or higher in all other Liberal Studies and Open Elective courses
  • maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher

Students who earn a cumulative DePaul University GPA

  • between 3.500 and 3.699 will graduate cum laude
  • between 3.700 and 3.849 will graduate magna cum laude
  • of at least 3.850 will graduate summa cum laude

For DePaul's policy on repeat courses and a complete list of academic policies see the DePaul Undergraduate Handbook in the Course Catalog.