Savannah College of Art and Design
B.F.A. in UX design
Savannah, USA
BA
DURATION
180 hours
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
USD 41,130 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* total, full-time student for one academic year
Key Summary
About: The B.F.A. in UX design at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) trains students to create approachable, meaningful user experiences for mobile, wearable and health care. Students use state-of-the-art resources to research, design, test interaction design, usability testing, information architecture, UI across SCAD sites in the US, France, and online.
Career Outcomes: Launch your career as a UX strategist, UX researcher, front-end developer, information architect, UI/UX designer, product designer. SCAD graduates have been recruited by Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Volvo, State Farm, and firms across design, tech, and consulting; possible roles include usability specialist and product manager.
Join the SCAD UX program and make tech come alive. From mobile devices to intelligent clothing, automobile interiors to health care informatics, user experience (UX) designers engineer experiences that are approachable, meaningful, and memorable. At SCAD, UX design students employ state-of-the-art resources to research, design, program, and test new products for consumers to enjoy.
Foundation studies: 20 hours
- DRAW 100 Drawing I: Form and Space
- DSGN 100 Design I: Elements and Organization
- DSGN 101 Color: Theory and Application
- DRAW 230 Drawing for Design
General education: 60 hours
- ANTH 101 Introduction to Anthropology
- PSYC 101 Introduction to Psychology
- MATH 104 Mathematics of Computer Science
- COMM 105 Speaking of Ideas
- BUSI 110 Business I: Fundamentals
- CTXT 121 Visual Culture in Context: Pre-Modern Global Perspectives
- CTXT 122 Visual Culture in Context: Making Modernities
- ENGL 123 Ideas to Ink: Critical Concepts in Academic Writing
- MATH 204 Algorithm Design and Analysis
- ELDS 205 Computer-aided Product Design
- BUSI 220 Business II: Economic Principles
- MATH 240 Logic
Major curriculum: 90 hours
- UXDG 101 User Experience Design Methods
- GRDS 205 Typography I: Anatomy, Form, and Space
- IDUS 209 Rapid Prototyping: Analog to Digital Fabrication
- SDES 215 Contextual Research Methods
- UXDG 315 Front-end Visual Interface Design
- UXDG 320 Coding for UX Designers
- GRDS 323 Production for Digital Environments
- UXDG 325 Prototyping Electronics for Designers
- UXDG 340 Interactive Product Design
- GRDS 348 Studio I: Production and Technique
- UXDG 360 Information Architecture
- UXDG 370 Perceptual and Cognitive Human Factors
- UXDG 380 Usability Testing: People vs. the World
- UXDG 390 UX Design Studio I: Innovation
- UXDG 415 UX Design Studio II: The Complexity of Simplicity
- UXDG 450 UX Design Senior Studio I: Researching and Ideation
- UXDG 490 UX Design Senior Studio II: Prototyping and Communication
- Select one of these three options:
- UXDG 479 Undergraduate Internship
- PRO 580 SCADpro Collaboration
- Business-focused elective
Additional electives: 10 hours
Total course of study: 180 hours
Become a product designer. Become a front-end developer. Become an information architect. As human interaction with complex devices and terabytes of data becomes more personal and necessary, the long-term demand for UX designers will only increase.
Launch your career as a professional:
- UX strategist
- UX researcher
- Front-end developer
- Interaction design director
- Mobile application designer
- Product designer/researcher
- UI/UX designer
- UX design analyst
- Visual designer
Get recruited and hired by the best of the best:
- Meta
- Amazon
- State Farm
- Deloitte Digital
- Lextant
- Ernst & Young
- Truist
- FedEx
- Apple
- Microsoft
- Volvo