Program Overview

Program Overview

The Human Factors Psychology Certificate is designed to provide students with expertise in how people interact with engineered systems and devices. This certificate aims to increase students' understanding of human-centered design and improve interactions between humans and technology.

Program Objectives

The certificate will help advance multiple career paths, including human-focused paths to better understand technology and technology-focused paths to better understand human perspective. Students will gain expertise in understanding and critically analyzing the intersection of technology design and implementation with human capacity and approaches.

Course Requirements

Course requirements include the following:

• PSYCH 5710: Advanced Human Factors
• And three of the following:
  • PSYCH 4720: Psychology of Social Technology
  • PSYCH 5740: Occupational Health and Safety
  • TCH COM 5530: Usability Studies
  • IS&T 5885: Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience
  • BUS 5150: Customer Focus and Satisfaction

Admission Criteria

This program is open to all persons holding a bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree in psychology, business, or a related field, with a preferred minimum of one year of professional employment experience. The minimum undergraduate GPA required is 3.0.