CIXD at George Washington University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate CIXD coursework.

• CIXD 2091Systems Thinking and Human-Centered Designopens 6 courses (2.5 directly)
• CIXD 3091Prototyping and Fabrication for Interactionopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• CIXD 3090Human Centered Design for Social Engagementopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• CIXD 4090Interaction Design Thesis I.opens 1 course (1 directly)
• CIXD 6210Interaction Design Capstone I.opens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate CIXD work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 24 CIXD and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 17 more CIXD courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in CIXD. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at CIXD 4091

  1. CFN 1093First-Year Studio
  2. CIXD 2091Systems Thinking and Human-Centered Design
  3. CIXD 3090Human Centered Design for Social Engagement
  4. CIXD 4090Interaction Design Thesis I.
  5. CIXD 4091Interaction Design Thesis II.

• 4 courses deep, ending at CIXD 4193

  1. CFN 1093First-Year Studio
  2. CIXD 2091Systems Thinking and Human-Centered Design
  3. CIXD 3091Prototyping and Fabrication for Interaction

• 3 courses deep, ending at CIXD 6220

  1. CIXD 6010Interaction Design for Service
  2. CIXD 6210Interaction Design Capstone I.
  3. CIXD 6220Interaction Design Capstone II.

• 2 courses deep, ending at CIXD 3085

  1. CIXD 2111Creative Code
  2. CIXD 3085Design Futures

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for CIXD yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CIXD yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

CIXD does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the GWU campus feed.