Course
Requirements for M.S. Human Factors/ Ergonomics
Students
must maintain a GPA of 3.0 or above in all course taken in fulfilling
prerequisites and the 30 graduate units required by the program. The
general requirements for the course completion are as follows.
All graduate students
at SJSU must demonstrate their competency in written English before
they can be admitted
into candidacy. Visit our English Competency Requirement
page for more information.
Electives may be selected from a wide range of graduate courses offered
on the SJSU campus in Industrial Engineering, Psychology, Human Performance
and other departments. The program does develop and offer its own elective
courses from time to time in topics such as usability testing, human
computer interaction and others.
Elective Courses (9 units):
Electives may be
selected from a wide range of options, providing the student with the
opportunity to specialize in a particular area, such as Human-Computer
Interaction, Workplace Ergonomics, etc.
Some of these may
be of interest to you and will fit with your past experience, but remember
that your advisor must sign off on anything before you will be credited
in your degree.
| Potential
Elective Courses: |
| BIOL 261 |
Urban Ecology |
| BIOL 265 |
Environmental
Health |
| CS
151 |
Object-Oriented
Programming |
| CS
152 |
Programming
Language Principles |
| EC 257 |
Economic Analysis
for Ergonomics |
| EDSE 272 |
Hearing Disorders |
| HuP
250 |
Research Methods
(in human performance) |
| HuP
251 |
Analysis of
Research and Issues in Human Performance |
| HuP
255 |
Physiological
Bases of Human Performance |
| HuP
256 |
Environmental
Effects of Human Performance |
| HuP
257 |
Biomechanics |
| ISE
212 |
Human Factors
Experiments |
| ISE
217 |
Human-Computer
Interaction I |
| ISE
219 |
Human-computer
Interaction II - HCI Research |
| ISE
114 |
Safety Engineering |
| ISE
296G |
Cognitive Engineering
for Human Machine Systems |
| ISE
296L |
Seminar in
Usability Testing |
| ISE
298 |
Special Projects
in Human Factors/Ergonomics |
| Psyc
206 |
Psychology
of Individual Differences |
| Psyc
220 |
Seminar in
Experimental Psychology |
| Psyc
240 |
Research Design
and Applied Psychometrics |
| Psyc
255 |
Seminar in
Learning |
| Psyc
256 |
Seminar in
Perception |
| Psyc
257 |
Seminar in
Motivation |
| Psyc
270 |
Seminar in
Industrial and Organizational Psychology |
| MATE. +++ |
Thesis Initiation
(optional) |
| ISE
299 |
Masters Thesis |
Seminar Unit
Registration Graduate Program in Human Factors & Ergonomics Policy
Statement
Each Human Factors/
Ergonomics student is required to complete the 2cr ISE 298 Human Factors/
Ergonomics seminar. The seminar must be attended for a minimum of two
semesters, preferably during the student's first year in the program.In
addition, after completion of the ISE 298 Seminar, each student in the
HFE program is required to return to the Seminar and give two presentations
to the seminar class. The first presentation will be a description of
their thesis proposal and plan following its acceptance by their thesis
committee; the second will be a presentation of their thesis results.
Each student will be responsible for notifying the Seminar leader pertaining
to his/her readiness to schedule each of these presentations.
Students are encouraged
to register for the credits during the first year, while they are attending
the seminar. However, students may sign up for the credits in one semester
(2 credit) or over 2 semesters (1 credit each), and can choose which
semesters to formally sign up for the class. |
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