A background in Computer Science is not required to take this course, although the class size is restricted and there are a limited number of positions available for non-CS students.

The most important prerequisite for this course is an ability to write, speak, and understand English.

Overview of HCI 
Historical and intellectual perspective; emergence of graphical user interfaces; case studies; Conceptual and methodological approaches; integration with software engineering and business models. 

The Process of Developing Interactive Systems
Design and evaluation; considering work contexts in design; software development environments; development tools. 

Interacting with Computers
Vision, hearing, and display design; touch, gesture, and marking; speech, languages, and internationalization; users with special needs. 

Psychology and Human Factors
Human information processing; designing to fit human capabilities; aspects of human movement, cognition and perception. 

Research Frontiers in Human-Computer Interaction
Groupware and computer-supported cooperative work; customizable systems and intelligent agents; hypertext and multimedia; virtual reality and cyberspace. 

Many of the readings can be found in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000 by Ronald M. Baecker, Jonathan Grudin, William A.S. Buxton, and Saul Greenberg (Morgan Kaufmann, 1995, ISBN 1-55860-246-1). This book can be picked up used, borrowed, or purchased online from the usual places: Amazon and Chapters. There are also two  copies of this text available for short term loan from the CS Reading Room.