SearchAnnouncementsHCII CalendarNo Seminar
NSH 1305 25 November, 2009 4:00pm HCII Seminar Series: NSH 1305 2 December, 2009 4:00pm HCII Seminar Series: Alessio Malizia NSH 1305 2 December, 2009 4:00pm |
Undergraduate Program Curriculum |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Undergraduate Major CurriculumUndergraduate Major CurriculumOverview | Curriculum | Electives | Accelerated Masters | Application | Contact Info | Independent Study
Graphically, the required curriculum for the HCI undergraduate major is shown in a chart. The arrows in the chart represent pre-requisites. So, for example, the Intro Programming and Statistics requirements are pre-requisites for the Intro to HCI course. The major involves courses in Human Behavior, Design, Computer Science, Statistics, Evaluation, and a Project course.
Special NotesAll Computer Science majors must take 05-431 (Software Architecture for User Interfaces). All majors except Computer Science majors must take 05-430 (Programming Usable Interfaces). These courses are not interchangeable, and no exceptions will be honored. HCI double majors are guarenteed a place in one of these courses. During registration period, students will be placed on a waitlist and then entered into the course by seniority manually until the courses are filled. The evaluation and statistics courses are required so that majors will be able to understand and conduct empirical research in HCI. Therefore a mathematically-oriented probability course, such as 36-217 (Probability Theory and Random Processes). does not fulfill either requirement. Design majors do not need to take Communication Design Fundamentals as a prerequiste, since they learn similar material in other courses for their major. HCI double majors are guarenteed a place in 51-422 Basic Interaction offered by the School of Design in the Spring for HCI double majors. Students intending to take 51-422 should visit the design office in MM 110 during registration week to fill out an instructor permission request form. The content of 51-422 is comparable to 51-421 (Fall). It is also the same as 05-650 Basic Interaction Design, which is offered by the HCI Institute in the Spring. 05-650, however, is only offered to Masters of HCI students. Double CountingCognitive Psychology, Communication Design Fundamentals, Statistics, and Introduction to Programming are considered prerequisites, and all other requirements for the major non-prerequisites. All prerequisites can be double counted with any requirements in your primary major. At most three non-prerequisite courses can be double counted with the primary major. ElectivesElectives are intended to provide HCI double majors advanced concepts and skills relevant to HCI or breadth of experience not available from their primary major. Given these goals, most electives will be 300-level courses or higher. Courses at the 100-level and 200-level in ones primary major will not count as electives, although the same course taken by a non-major may. For example, a communication design student cannot take 51-247 Color and Communication as an elective, although a computer science major can. Students can take electives in the HCI Institute or courses relevant to HCI from many other departments on campus. All electives are approved on a case-by-case basis. Undergraduate majors requestion approval of an elective using The HCI Institute's EASy requrements' management system. The director of the undergraduate program will approve the request, ask for more information or reject it. The EASy system then deeps a record of the electives approved for a particular student. A list of popular HCI electives is available at here. Sample PlanBelow are two sample curricula that satisfy the HCI undergraduate major. The first reflects an emphasis in Human Behavior, and the second an emphasis in Design. Courses in black are required courses, and gray courses are electives. Sample Curriculum with emphasis in Human Behavior
Sample Curriculum with emphasis in Design
Sample Curriculum with emphasis in Computer Science
PrerequisitesStatistics The Statistics prerequsite requirement can be satisfied by taking any of the following one or two semester courses, or by receiving credit for courses taken elsewhere (which must be approved by the Undergraduate Advisor prior to signing up for the course). Pre-requisites for the Evaluation courses vary, and are not satisfied in all cases by the same courses that satisfy the requirement for the major. As noted above, the evaluation and statistics courses are required so that majors will be able to understand and conduct empirical research in HCI. Therefore a mathematically-oriented probability course, such as 36-217 (Probability Theory and Random Processes). does not fulfill either requirement.
Evaluation The Evaluation requirement can be satisfied by taking any of the following courses or by receiving credit for courses taken elsewhere.
SchedulingThe chart below lists typical schedules for HCI courses. These change, however, and are NOT guaranteed to be correct. Up to date schedules can be obtained online at https://acis.as.cmu.edu/open/servlet/SOC
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
HCII, Carnegie Mellon University | 5000 Forbes Ave | Pgh, PA 15213 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
