The Bachelor of Arts in Technology and Information Design degree at College Park requires 120 total credits for completion.
Complete 40 Credits in General Education and 45 in the Major
The curriculum requires 40 credits in General Education alongside 45 credits dedicated specifically to the Technology and Information Design major. Students must complete ten core courses and 15 credits of upper-level major electives to finish the degree.
Benchmark courses establish foundational knowledge during the early stages of the program. These required classes include Design Across Campus, Intro to Programming for Information Science, and Innovation Tools and Mindsets.
Build Expertise Through Major Core Courses
Major Core Courses build direct expertise in the field. Students take courses such as Designing Fair Systems, Prototyping and Development Technologies Studio, and the Cross-disciplinary Design Communication Lab.
Faculty Program Director Elizabeth Bonsignore, Ph.D., explained that the program teaches students to frame important problems at the intersection of people and information, design solutions, and deploy and iterate on those solutions.
Choose Six Elective Courses to Tailor Education
Students can also choose six additional elective courses to tailor their education toward specific interests. Available options include Information User Needs and Assessment, Design and Human Disability and Aging, and Privacy, Security and Ethics for Big Data.
Admissions Policies and Career Pathways
Students who are accepted to the university and list Technology and Information Design as their preferred major start directly in the program. Current university students seeking to declare the major must complete a change of major process.
Graduates of the program may pursue careers as designers, planners, technology consultants, project managers, and entrepreneurs across diverse sectors. These fields range from user experience and mobile development to healthcare, law, entertainment, policy, smart-city development, libraries and archives.
