Hi, I graduated from the Berkeley program in 02. I had a terrific experience, and I've been able to successfully pursue my career interest (interaction design) with the MIMS degree as a foundation.
It is also a highly interdisciplinary program, which can be shaped according to the interests of each student. There are core courses that provide a broad foundation (in technology, information / library science, intellectual property law, socio-technical theories, etc), but you can also take any course offered at Berkeley as long as your advisor and the person teaching the class agree to it. For instance, I took a self-paced Java class in the CS department, and a course in Metaphor in the Linguistics / Cog Sci department. I know that since my time there has been a lot of change in the program, and specifically I think there is a lot of focus on mobile interfaces. Hopefully a current student or recent graduate will chime in with more color... Cheers, Jean-Anne On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:15 PM, j. eric townsend <j...@flatline.net> wrote: > The first question is, "What do you want to do after you graduate?". If > you have a good idea as to the answer, compare what people from these > programs end up doing. > > I have a lot of respect for the students in the IxD program at CMU and have > learned a *lot* taking classes with them. However, I didn't apply to the > IxD program because I'm much more interested in 3D/researchy things than > 2D/applications and getting a job as an IxD type at A4/g5/M$. > > CMU is also big on interdisciplinary work, so while you're doing the IxD > program, you have the opportunity to take classes in other disciplines. > Your options range from things like "Introductory Robotics" taught by a > leader in the field to one-off classes like "Interactive Technology and Live > Performance" (<http://plitforms.ning.com/>) taught by Golan Levin and Matt > Gray. > > Someone from Bezerkeley should chime in as to why their program roxxors. > > --jet > > -- > J. Eric "jet" Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 > > design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ > PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
