Elective Courses

  • Interactive Computing Track: 12 credit hours required; at least 9 credit hours of electives must be taken outside of the specialization. 
  • Digital Media Track: 12 credit hours required; at least 6 credit hours of electives that must be taken outside of the specialization. 
  • Industrial Design Track: 9 credit hours required; at least 6 credit hours of electives that must be taken outside of the specialization. 
  • Psychology Track: 11 credit hours required; at least 6 credit hours of electives that must be taken outside of the specialization. 

Any Specialization course may be taken to fulfill an Elective course requirement for any of the four degree tracks.  Other approved Electives appear in the list below.

A maximum of 3 credit hours of Special Problems in HCI (CS/ID/LMC/PSYC 8903) may count toward the Elective course requirement.

A minimum grade of "C" is required in each of the Elective Courses used to satisfy degree requirements.

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Interactive Computing

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Course Typically taught Website / Syllabus Description
CS 6150 Rarely   Computing for Good
CS 6440 Spring   Intro to Healthcare Informatics
CS 6451 Fall   Introduction to Human-Centered Computing
CS 6452 Fall Fall 2017 Prototyping Interactive Systems
CS 6454 Fall   Qualitative Methods in HCI
CS 6456 Fall   Principles of User Interface Software
CS 6457 Fall Fall 2018 Video Game Design
CS 6460 Fall, Spring Spring 2018, Spring 2019 Educational Technology: Conceptual Foundations
CS 6465 Rarely   Computational Journalism
CS 6470 Spring Spring 2016 Design of Online Communities
CS 6474 Spring Fall 2017, Fall 2018 Social Computing
CS 6730 Spring   Data Visualization Principles
CS/INTA 6745 Fall, Spring   Information and Communication Technologies and Global Development
CS/ID 6763     Design of Interactive Environments
CS 6770/ LMC 6340 Spring   Mixed Reality Experience Design
CS 6795 Spring   Introduction to Cognitive Science
CS 7450 Fall Fall 2017, Fall 2018 Information Visualization
CS 7460 Rarely   Collaborative Computing
CS 7451     Human-Centered Data Analysis
CS 7470 Fall, Spring Fall 2018, Spring 2019 Ubiquitous Computing
CS 7497     Virtual Environments
CS 7632 Fall Spring 2018 Game AI 
CS 7633 Fall Fall 2016 Human-Robot Interaction
CS 8803-ANI Fall   Special Topics: Computer-Mediated Animal Interaction
CS 8803-CC     Special Topics: Computational Creativity
CS 8803-HI Spring   Special Topics: Personal Health Informatics
CS 8803-MAS   2017 Special Topics: Mobile Apps and Services
CS 8803-PP Fall Fall 2018 Special Topics: Physical Prototyping in HCI
CS 8903     Special Problems in Human-Computer Interaction

 

Literature, Media and Communication

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Course Typically Taught Website / Syllabus Description
LMC 6215 Fall or Spring, depending on faculty   Issues in Media Studies
LMC 6310 Fall Fall 2017 The Computer as an Expressive Medium
LMC 6311 Spring Spring 2018 Visual Culture and Design
LMC 6312   Fall 2017 Design Technology and Representation
LMC 6313 Spring Spring 2018 Principle of Interactive Design
LMC 6314   Fall 2017 Design of Networked Media
LMC 6315 Rarely offered   Project Production
LMC 6316   Fall 2017 Historical Approaches to Digital Media
LMC 6317 Fall Fall 2017 Interactive Fiction
LMC 6318     Experimental Media
LMC 6319 Fall   Intellectual Property Policy and Law
LMC 6325 Fall Fall 2017 Game Design and Analysis
LMC 6340 / CS 6770 Spring Spring 2018 Mixed Reality Design
LMC 6399 Fall Fall 2017 Discovery and Invention in Digital Media
LMC 6650 Fall, Spring Spring 2017 Project Studio
LMC 6748     Social Justice, Critical Theory, and Philisophy of Design
LMC 8000     Pro-Seminar in Media Theory
LMC 8001   Spring 2018 Pro-Seminar in Digital Media Studies
LMC 8903     Special Problems in Human-Computer Interaction

 

Industrial Design

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Course Typically taught Website / Syllabus Description
ID 6100 Fall   Intro to ID Grad Studies
ID 6101 Spring Spring 2019 Human-Centered Design
ID 6212 Spring   Grad Studio Two | Health and Wellness
ID 6213 Spring Spring 2019 Grad Studio Two | Interactive Products
ID 6216 Spring   Service Design, Brand & Value Creation
ID 6402 Spring   Visualizing Communication for Interaction
ID 6510     Design for Interaction
ID 6515 Spring Spring 2019 Interface Prototyping
ID/CS 6763 Spring 2014, Spring 2019 Design of Interactive Environments 
ID 6800 Rarely   Advanced Universal Design
ID 6820 Rarely   Web Design, Usability, and Accessibility
ID 7451 Fall   Wearable Technologies for Health
ID 7501 Spring   Craft Exploration Methods
ID 7651 Fall   Consumer Electronics Design
ID 8803-TP Fall   Technology of Poetic Objects
ID 8903     Special Problems in Human-Computer Interaction

 

Psychology

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Course Availability Website / Syllabus Description
PSYC 6011 Fall   Cognitive Psychology
PSYC 6012 Fall   Social Psychology
PSYC 6014 Spring 2015 Sensation and Perception
PSYC 6022 Fall & Spring Fall 2018 Psychological Statistics for HCI
PSYC 6041 Fall   Topics in Cognitive Aging
PSYC 7101 Spring Spring 2019 Engineering Psychology I
PSYC 7102 Fall   Engineering Psychology II
PSYC 7104 Every Other Fall (even years)   Psychomotor and Cognitive Skills
PSYC/CS 7790     Cognitive Modeling
PSYC 8040     Seminar in Engineering Psychology
PSYC 8903 Varies   Special Problems in Human-Computer Interaction

Aerospace Engineering

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Course Availability Description
AE 6551   Cognitive Engineering
AE 6721   Evaluation of Human Integrated Systems

 

International Affairs

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Course Availability Description  
INTA/CS 6745   Information and Communication Technologies and Global Development  
INTA 8803 Fall or Spring Special Topics: Computers, Communications, and International Development  

 

Industrial and Systems Engineering

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Course Availability Website / Syllabus Description
ISyE 6413 Every Spring 2012 Design and Analysis of Experiments
ISyE 6414 Summer & Fall   Regression Analysis
ISyE 6739 Spring & Summer 2014 Basic Statistical Methods
ISyE 6772 Fall & Spring   Managing the Resources of Technological Firms
ISyE 7210 Rarely offered   Real-Time Interactive Simulations

Management of Technology (MOT)

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Course Availability Website / Syllabus Description
MGT 6056 Fall or Spring, depending on faculty   Electronic Commerce
MGT 6057     Business Process Analysis and Design
MGT 6059 F18 Fall 2018 Analysis of Emerging Technologies
MGT 6086     Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity
MGT 6111     Innovation; Entrepreneurial Behavior
MGT 6165     New Venture Creation
MGT 6326 Fall or Spring, depending on faculty   Collaborative Product Development
MGT 6359     Business Strategies for Sustainability
MGT 6450     Project Management
MGT 6772-K/TSA Fall or Spring, depending on faculty Spring 19 Managing Resources of the Technological Firm
MGT 6799     Legal Issues in Technology Transfer
MGT 6789     Technology Ventures
MGT 8803     Big Data Analytics in Business

 

Music

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Course Availability Website / Syllabus Description
MUSI 6001 Every Other Fall   Music Perception and Cognition
MUSI 6002     Interactive Music
MUSI 6003 Every Other Fall   Music Technology History and Repertoire
MUSI 6004     Technology Ensemble
MUSI 6103 S19 Spring 2019 Music Recording & Mixing
MUSI 6203    

Project Studio in Music Technology 
MUSI 7100 Fall & Spring   Music Technology Research Lab

Public Policy

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Course Availability Description
PUBP 6111 Available according to demand The Internet and Public Policy
PUBP 6401 Fall & Spring Science, Technology, and Public Policy

Last modified: Jun. 19, 2018