Human Factors/Ergonomics. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

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Prerequisites: Computing Literacy GER course, Scientific Literacy GER course. Through lectures and "hands-on" experiments, this course will challenge the student to explore objects and environments as sensory and psychological experiences that effect human comfort, efficiency, function and emotion. Emphasis will be put on empathizing with the user with particular attention to those individuals with special physical, cognitive or occupational needs.