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HCI Courses

HCII on the CMU Schedule of Classes

For the most up to date HCI course listings, and to view a full list of our courses planned for a specific semester, reference the Carnegie Mellon University Schedule of Classes website. Once on that site, you will need to:

  • Select the desired Semester/Year in the dropdown menu,
  • Choose "Human-Computer Interaction (05-xxx)" from the “Department” list,
  • and click the “Retrieve Schedule” button.


Overview of HCI Courses

The following courses and course descriptions are for general reference purposes. HCI course availability, especially electives and special topics, varies from semester to semester.


Required HCI Courses

To view the required HCI courses for a particular program, select the corresponding checkbox below and then click the search button. Please note that these are only the required HCI courses, and not all of the required courses for these programs. Visit your academic program page for full course requirements.

Required HCI Courses Per Program
Course Number (Undergraduate) Course Number (Graduate) Course Name
05-499 05-899 Special Topics: Building Technologies for the Resistance (not offered Fall 2025)
05-499 05-899 Special Topics: Social Agents (not offered Fall 2025)
05-499 05-899 Special Topics: Computational Methods for Interactive Systems (CMIS)
05-499 05-899 Special Topics: Ubiquitous Personal Smart Agents (not offered Fall 2025)
05-499 05-899 Special Topics: Design of Large-scale Peer Learning Systems (not offered Fall 2025)
05-499 05-899 Special Topics: Psychological Foundations for Designing for Impact in HCI (not offered Fall 2025)
05-499 05-899 Special Topics: Visualization in HCI (not offered Fall 2025)
05-499 05-899 Special Topics: Persuasive Design in HCI (not offered Fall 2025)
05-499 05-899 Special Topics: Accessibility: A Guide to Building Future User Interfaces (not offered Fall 2025)
05-499 05-899 Special Topics: Computing for Good (C4G) (not offered Fall 2025)
05-499 05-899 Special Topics: Social Data Science (not offered Fall 2025)
05-499 05-899 Special Topics: Justice Through Design (not offered Fall 2025)
05-499 05-899 Special Topics: Sustainable Design: Materials, Artifacts and Computational Tools (not offered Fall 2025)
05-499 05-899 Special Topics: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, & Ethics (FATE) in Sociotechnical Systems (not offered Fall 2025)
05-499 A 05-899 A Special Topics: The AI Augmented Designer
05-499 B 05-899 B Special Topics: Augmenting Intelligence
05-499 D 05-899 D Special Topics: Human-Centered NLP
05-499 E 05-899 E Special Topics: AI Innovation in the Healthcare Sector
05-499 F 05-899 F Special Topics: Learning Analytics and Educational Data Science
05-499 G 05-899 G Special Topics: Designing for the Present and Future of Work
05-499 H 05-899 H Special Topics: Interactive Extended Reality