Master of Arts - User Experience Design
- 1,5 years
- Duration
- 13,250 EUR
- Price
- Oct 2024
- Start
- June 2024
- Deadline
- Master
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Hamburg / Germany
- Location
Program description
Degree awarded by University for the Creative Arts (UCA)
How can design help us live in a rapidly changing world? The MA User Experience Design program at UCA prepares you to become a human-centered, multidisciplinary, research-led designer ready for future challenges and opportunities as well as advanced job or study.
What people think and feel about a custom-made product, service, system, or environment is called "user experience". This intriguing and fast evolving field, which shares characteristics with 3D, environmental, graphic, information, interaction, interface, product, service, social, and other design topics, affects every element of human life. Throughout this course, students will cooperate to test, challenge, and expand their user experience and design methods as they construct new concepts and resilient, multinational, and creative networks.
The MA in User Experience Design will improve your analytical, artistic, technological, research, and critical, collaborative skills. The course uses large-scale projects with industrial partners and postgraduate students. It develops professional teamwork and project management skills and an environmental and socially appropriate portfolio in dedicated studios.
Program structure
Three terms of study and six months of dissertation work make up this 18-month (Level 7) User Experience Design MA.
In addition to participating in a variety of lectures and seminars during the first two terms, you will begin to delve deeper into your creative practice, which will help you later in the course while developing the specifics of your project proposal.
You start working on your master's project in the third term, analyzing and testing the objectives of your proposal over an extended length of independent study.
During the last phase, you will use the information you have learned from your research to produce a final body of work. You can choose to either take a general approach or focus on one of the three specializations listed below in relation to our BA courses: Animation, Illustration, or Graphic Design.
All of this program's modules are available and taught entirely on campus. Through the University for the Creative Arts portal, students will also have additional access to reading materials and courses.
Term 1
- Research and Professional Contexts 1
Term 2
- Research and Professional Contexts 2
Term 3
- Major Project
Price
The fee for 18 months of education is 13250,00 EUR for international students.
Requirements for applicants
The following requirements apply for the start of a Master's degree:
- Minimum age: 21
- Successful completion of a bachelor’s degree from a recognised university
- Consideration will also be given to applicants with a minimum of 3 years relevant managerial experience, demonstrating an ability to study at postgraduate level.
If you do not meet the academic requirements, you may be assessed based on 3 years of relevant work experience (illustration, animation, graphic design or general visual communication), demonstrating your ability to study at postgraduate level.
English language requirements:- Official English Tests
- IELTS – minimum OS 6.0 (with min 5.5 in each component);
- Password test – minimum OS 6.0 (with min 5.5 in each component);
- PTE (Academic) – minimum OS of 56 ( with min 51 in each component);
- TOEFL IBT OS 80 (Listening 17, Reading 18, Speaking 20, Writing 17);
- Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) or Cambridge English Proficiency OS 69 (min 162 in each component)
- LanguageCert International ESOL SELT OS B2 Communicator High Pass (min 33 in each component)
- Duolingo test with an overall score of 105
- Applicants who have an insufficient score in one component (i.e. 5.0 instead of 5.5) but overall meets the required threshold, can sit for an English diagnostic test online. Students based in Germany will also be able to sit for an internal assessment, free of charge, with a successful passing rate of 50%+.
- West African Certificates (WAEC AND NECO only) as a stand-alone with a minimum of C6 in English and issued within the last 5 years. Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) is also accepted with an overall grade C or above. For Tanzania and Cameroon, we request an IELTS (or equivalent certificate).
- WAEC/NECO must be enhanced by a successful (50%+) Internal English Assessment if issued more than 5 years ago.
- You have completed a Bachelor’s Degree in one of the majority English speaking countries within the last two years.
- You have achieved a Bachelor’s Degree from a recognised university (according to ECCTIS UK), where the Method of Instruction was entirely in English (teaching and assessment).
Exceptions
- You do not need to prove your knowledge of English if you have completed a qualification equivalent to a UK degree in: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Ireland, Jamaica New Zealand, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago, UK, USA
About the university
Berlin School of Business and Innovation was founded in 2018.
School has a main campus located in the heart of Berlin and focuses on helping graduates to become exceptional leaders in their chosen field. Our campuses are spread throughout Europe (Berlin, Hamburg, Potsdam, Iserlohn, Barcelona, Paris, and Amsterdam), including Dubai, where we are the only university in the United Arab Emirates to offer German degrees.
Every program we offer is focused on enhancing your practical business abilities and understanding of industry since every course we offer is created with these ideas in mind.
We will provide you with the resources and knowledge you need to succeed in your career, as well as support from academics who are leaders in their fields and have industry-focused research agendas.
All of our courses employ active learning techniques like case studies, field trips to exhibits and businesses, guest lecturers, and in-class debates.
List of faculties in Berlin School
- Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
- Faculty of Creative Industries
- Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics
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