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Humanities and creative industries (HIC)

The Huma­ni­ties and Crea­tive Indus­tries (HIC) spe­cia­list degree lies at the inter­sec­tion of the human sciences and tech­no­lo­gi­cal inno­va­tion. Its aim is to train pro­fes­sio­nals and research scien­tists capable of unders­tan­ding how tech­no­lo­gy struc­tures and shapes our acti­vi­ties and experience.

Presentation

The Huma­ni­ties and Crea­tive Indus­tries (HIC) Master's degree, with its two courses, offers an ori­gi­nal approach to tech­no­lo­gi­cal desi­gn, com­bi­ning desi­gn metho­do­lo­gy with theo­re­ti­cal contri­bu­tions from human and social sciences. When many courses focus on the tech­ni­cal and metho­do­lo­gi­cal aspects of expe­rience desi­gn, we favour an approach that ques­tions the role of tech­ni­cal devices in sha­ping our indi­vi­dual and col­lec­tive experiences.

Stu­dents are trai­ned to conduct field sur­veys and deve­lop a cri­ti­cal ana­ly­sis of user situa­tions with tools from desi­gn and cog­ni­tive sciences. This research-based trai­ning enables them to go beyond stan­dar­di­zed approaches to expe­rience and inter­face desi­gn and to explore the rela­tio­nal, social and eco­lo­gi­cal dimen­sions of technologies.

Professional opportunities

This pro­gramme is par­ti­cu­lar­ly sui­ted to stu­dents from tech­ni­cal back­grounds wishing to deve­lop a ‘reflexive’ approach to inno­va­tion, to desi­gners wishing to dee­pen their know­ledge-span in huma­ni­ties and to stu­dents enrol­led in huma­ni­ties and social sciences inter­es­ted in tech­no­lo­gi­cal desi­gn issues. This new Master's degree opens the way to a wide range of careers in tech­no­lo­gi­cal inno­va­tion, desi­gn and research.

Poten­tial out­lets include:

  • Cor­po­rate research: UX research scien­tists, R&D research scien­tists and engi­neers, inno­va­tion consultants;
  • Aca­de­mic research: doc­to­rate in human and social sciences, public or pri­vate laboratories;
  • Desi­gn and concep­tion: UX desi­gners, pro­duct desi­gners, inter­ac­tion designers;
  • Consul­ting and exper­tise: digi­tal trans­for­ma­tion consul­tants, usage analysts;
  • Inno­va­tion poli­cy fra­ming: think tanks, public ins­ti­tu­tions, Cor­po­rate Social Res­pon­si­bi­li­ty (CSR).

Courses

The degree offers two paths: the “User Expe­rience Desi­gn” path, run enti­re­ly at UTC-Com­piegne and the “Desi­gn & Expe­rience Crea­tion” path, which is the fruit of a part­ner­ship bet­ween UTC-Com­piegne and the École Supé­rieure d'Art et Desi­gn (ESAD) in Amiens. The “Desi­gn & Crea­tion of Expe­rience” course is aimed at stu­dents who alrea­dy have a back­ground in desi­gn, par­ti­cu­lar­ly gra­phic design.

Please note: the Desi­gn and Expe­rience Crea­tion spe­cial­ty is part­ly out­sour­ced to the École supé­rieure d'art et de desi­gn (ÉSAD) of Amiens.

Pedagogical organization

The pro­gramme alter­nates theo­re­ti­cal courses, metho­do­lo­gi­cal semi­nars and prac­ti­cal work­shops over four semes­ters. Each semes­ter com­bines three core courses with three elec­tive courses, enabling stu­dents to build their own path accor­ding to their inter­ests in phi­lo­so­phy, cog­ni­tive science, eco­no­mics, desi­gn, mana­ge­ment or sociology

The first year intro­duces stu­dents to methods for inves­ti­ga­ting and ana­ly­sing situa­tions of use. Stu­dents learn to docu­ment users' actual prac­tices and to ana­lyse how tech­ni­cal devices help struc­ture these prac­tices. In the second semes­ter, this lear­ning pro­cess is dee­pe­ned through concrete case stu­dies and expe­ri­men­ta­tion with dif­ferent obser­va­tion and inter­view methodologies.

The second year is devo­ted to research. Stu­dents car­ry out their own inves­ti­ga­tive work in the UTC-Cos­tech labo­ra­to­ry, lear­ning about expe­ri­men­tal methods and taking part in a research-crea­tion work­shop. A six-month inter­n­ship in a labo­ra­to­ry or com­pa­ny com­pletes the programme.

Contact and documentation

Res­pon­sable mas­ter
San­drine Moran­dat
 +33 (0)3 44 23 44 23
Res­pon­sable de la men­tion
Florent Levil­lain
 +33 (0)3 44 23 41 12
Sco­la­ri­té Master
Mor­gane Boufflers
 +33 (0)3 44 23 73 23
Sco­la­ri­té Master
Chloé Lefevre
 +33 (0)3 44 23 79 53
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