Description: Explores emerging opportunities enabled by cheap sensors and networked computing devices. Small research projects will be conducted in teams, culminating in project presentations at the end of the term. Section will cover material relevant to the project, such as research methods, software engineering, teamwork, and project management. 

Prerequisites: Any course from the following: CSE 131, CSE 132B, COGS 102C, COGS 121, COGS 184, COMT 111B, COMT 115, ECE 111, ECE 118, ECE 191, ECE 192, or ICAM 160B; or consent of instructor.

Website: CSE-118/218-Fall24

Description: This course focuses on design and evaluation of three-dimensional (3-D) user interfaces, devices, and interaction techniques. The course consists of lectures, literature reviews, and programming assignments. Students will be expected to create interaction techniques for several different 3-D interaction devices. Program or materials fees may apply.

Prerequisites: CSE 167; restricted to CS25, CS26, CS27, and EC26 majors. All other students will be allowed as space permits.

Website: CSE-165 (Spring 2025)

Description: Concerns the latest developments in digital data capture, analyses, curation, and dissemination for cultural heritage. Introduction to geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis, and digital technologies applied to documentation and promotion of cultural heritage and tourism. Lectures and lab exercises.

Prerequisites: Upper division standing or consent of instructor.

Description: Students develop artworks and performances in current virtual environments. Projects may be done individually or in groups in multiplayer games, immersive life platforms, or mixed reality projects and performances. Exploration of theoretical issues involved will underlie acquisition of techniques utilized in the construction of virtual environments. Materials fees required. 

Prerequisites: VIS 142; CSE 11 recommended. Open to visual arts majors and ICAM minors only. Two production-course limitation.

Description: Students will implement time- and process-based projects under direction of faculty. Projects such as software and hardware interfacing, computer mediated performance, software art, installation, interactive environments, data visualization and sonification will be produced as advanced study and portfolio project. Program or materials fees may apply. Two production-course limitation. 

Prerequisites: VIS 145A or ICAM 102. Open to ICAM and speculative design majors and computing and the arts and speculative design minors.

Description: Students pursue projects of their own design over two quarters with support from faculty in a seminar environment. Project proposals are developed, informed by project development guidelines from real-world examples. 

Prerequisites: VIS 145A and one course from VIS 141B or VIS 145B or VIS 147B or MUS 172. Open to ICAM majors only.

Description: SYN 100 is a project-based course that builds upon foundational skills by taking a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to complex global problems. 

Section B Documenting and tracking climatic change is a complex task. In particular, climatically endangered natural and cultural heritage sites are disappearing at a rapid pace. Their digital documentation can both preserve our knowledge of their current state but also serve as a tool for education and communication on climatic change to a broad audience.  In this SYN100 class, students will work in cross-disciplinary groups to design projects around the problem of digital documentation of climatically endangered sites. A special emphasis of the class will be on utilizing VR/AR, photogrammetry, GIS, and gaming engines as platforms of digital documentation and dissemination. The course is open to all majors and will introduce students to the topics and related tools mentioned above.