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CS 422 User Interface Design and Programming

3 Hours. User interface design, implementation, and evaluation; user-centered design methodologies, windowing systems, I/O devices and techniques, event-loop programming, user studies. Programming projects.

Prerequisite: CS 340
LSRC 500 Introduction to the Learning Sciences

4 Hours. Key principles of learning, development, and language. Cognitive, social, and affective dimensions of learning. Applicability to diverse learners and contexts of learning.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Ph.D. program in the Learning Sciences or consent of the instructor.
  LSRC 501 Research Methods in the Learning Sciences

4 Hours. Focuses on understanding the components of research design and scientific arguments as they apply to the diverse research issues investigated in the learning sciences.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Ph.D. program in the Learning Sciences or consent of the instructor.
  LSRC 540 Journal Club

2 Hours. Helps students establish guidelines and criteria by which to judge the efficacy of a research effort as presented in published scholarly literature. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Ph.D. program in the Learning Sciences or consent of the instructor.