HCDE at University of Washington

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 HCDE 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 52 HCDE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 48 more HCDE 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 HCDE. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at HCDE 493

  1. HCDE 302Foundations of Human Centered Design I
  2. HCDE 303Foundations of Human Centered Design II
  3. HCDE 351User Experience Prototyping Techniques
  4. HCDE 492Capstone Planning
  5. HCDE 493Senior Capstone

• 4 courses deep, ending at HCDE 410

  1. CSE 142Computer Programming I
  2. CSE 143Computer Programming II
  3. CSE 163Intermediate Data Programming

• 4 courses deep, ending at HCDE 593

  1. HCDE 518User-Centered Design
  2. HCDE 517Usability Studies
  3. HCDE 592Capstone Planning

• 3 courses deep, ending at HCDE 538

  1. HCDE 518User-Centered Design
  2. HCDE 536Interaction Design and Prototyping
  3. HCDE 538Designing for Behavior Change

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for HCDE yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under HCDE yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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