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Course	Course Title	Fall 2025	Winter 2026	Spring 2026	Summer 2025
COMP_SCI 110	Intro to Computer Programming	10-10:50 MWF Horn	10-10:50 MWF (2 sections) Bain	9:30-10:50 TuTh Kuzmanovic
COMP_SCI 111	Fundamentals of Computer Programming I	1-1:50 or 2-2:50 MWF Bain	11-11:50 MWF Sood	1-1:50 MWF Sood
COMP_SCI 150	Fundamentals of Computer Programming 1.5	12-12:50 MWF (2 sections) Geisler	1-1:50 MWF (2 sections) Kurdia	11-11:50 MWF Geisler	9-12:30pm MTWThF (2 weeks) Kurdia
COMP_ENG 203	Intro to Computer Engineering- https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/electrical-computer/academics/courses/	MTuWF 11-11:50 Szefer
COMP_ENG 205	Fundamentals of Computer System Software		MTWF 2:00-2:50 Joseph
COMP_SCI 211	Fundamentals of Computer Programming II	12:30-1:50 TuTh Hummel	9:30-10:50 TuTh (2 sections) Y. Zhang	2-3:20 TuTh Hummel
COMP_SCI 212	Mathematical Foundations of CS Part 1: Discrete mathematics for computer science	9:30-10:50 TuTh Racz	11-11:50 MWF Agarwal	11-11:50 MWF Agarwal	1-1:50 MWF (8 weeks) Agarwal
COMP_SCI 213	Intro to Computer Systems	9:30-10:50 TuTh Dinda	2-3:20 TuTh (2 sections) Ghena	2-3:20 TuTh Hardavellas
COMP_SCI 214	Data Structures and Algorithms	11-12:20 TuTh (2 sections) St-Amour	11:00-12:20 TuTh (2 sections) Bhagavatula	11:00-12:20 TuTh (2 sections) St-Amour
COMP_SCI 217	Data Management and Information Processing		12:30-1:50 TuTh Hu	9:30-10:50 TuTh Hu
COMP_SCI 260, 460	Introduction to Law and Digital Technologies	9:00-10:20 T Linna & Villasenor (Lab: 10:30- 11:50 (CS 260 & 460))
COMP_SCI 262	Mathematical Foundations of CS Part 2: Continuous mathematics for computer science			9:30-10:50 TuTh Vijayaraghavan
COMP_SCI 295, 396, 496	AI and Experimental Narrative			3:30-4:50 TuTh Horswill
COMP_SCI 296	AI and International Security			9:30-10:50 MW Subrahmanian
COMP_SCI 298	CS Research Track Program	1-3:50 F Bhagavatula
COMP_SCI 301	Introduction to Robotics Laboratory		12:30-3:20 TuTh Argall
COMP_SCI 302	Artificial Life		1-2:20 TuTh Kriegman
COMP_SCI 303	Full Stack Software Engineering		6-7:20 MW Tse	6-7:20 MW Tse
COMP_ENG 303	Advanced Digital Design	TuTh 12:30-1:50 Gu		TuTh 3:30-4:50 Gu
COMP_SCI 307	Introduction to Cryptography	12:30-1:50 TuTh Wang
COMP_SCI 308	Foundations of Security	12:30-1:50 TuTh Bhagavatula		11-12:20 TuTh Bhagavatula
COMP_SCI 310	Scalable Software Architectures		3-5:50 W Hummel	3:30-4:50 TuTh Hummel
COMP_SCI 311	Inclusive Making			11-12:20 MW Worsley
COMP_SCI 312, 412	Data Privacy			2-3:20 TuTh Bhagavatula
COMP_SCI 313, 413	Tangible Interaction Design and Learning			3:30-4:50 MW Horn
COMP_SCI 314	Technology & Human Interaction		9:30-10:50 TuTh Gergle
COMP_SCI 315, 415	Design, Technology, and Research	12-2:50 F H. Zhang	12-2:50 F H. Zhang	12-2:50 F H. Zhang
COMP_SCI 320	Proving Properties of Programs with Mechanized Logic
COMP_SCI 321	Programming Languages	2-3:20 TuTh Dimoulas	11-12:20 TuTh Findler	11-12:20 TuTh Findler
COMP_SCI 322	Compiler Construction		5 -6:20 TuTh Geisler	5 -6:20 TuTh Geisler
COMP_SCI 323	Code Analysis and Transformation
COMP_SCI 324, 424	Dynamics of Programming Languages			2-3:20 TuTh Dimoulas
COMP_SCI 325	Artificial Intelligence Programming	11-11:50 MWF Riesbeck
COMP_SCI 326	Introduction to the Data Science Pipeline	12:30-1:50 TuTh (2 sections) Hu			1-4:30 MTWThF (2 weeks) D'Arcy
COMP_SCI 329	HCI Studio		10-11:20 MW Jacobs	11-12:20 MW H. Zhang
COMP_SCI 330	Human Computer Interaction	3:30-4:50 TuTh Kay		TBD Worsley	1-3pm TTh (8 weeks) Lotsos
COMP_SCI 331	Introduction to Computational Photography
COMP_SCI 332	Online Markets	9:30-10:50 MW Hartline
COMP_SCI 333	Interactive Information Visualization	3:30-4:50 MW Hullman		TBD Kay	11-12:30pm MW Sarma
ELEC_ENG/COMP_ENG 334	Fundamentals of Blockchains and Decentralization			TuTh 2-3:20 Guo
COMP_SCI 334	Introduction to Computational Linguistics
COMP_SCI 335	Intro to the Theory of Computation	11-12:20 MW Agarwal	12:30-1:50 TuTh Agarwal
COMP_SCI 336	Design & Analysis of Algorithms	3:30-4:50 MW Khuller & Agarwal	3:30-4:50 TuTh Makarychev	3:30-4:50 TuTh Agarwal	1-2pm MWF Kalhan
COMP_SCI 337	Intro to Natural Language Processing	3:30-4:50 MW Birnbaum
COMP_SCI 338	Practicum in Intelligent Information Systems	11-12:20 TuTh Hammond	11-12:20 TuTh Hammond	11-12:20 MW Hammond
COMP_SCI 338	Practicum in Intelligent Information Systems
COMP_SCI 339	Intro to Databases	12:30-1:50 MW Rogers		9:30-10:50 TuTh Rogers
COMP_SCI 340	Introduction to Computer Networking	5-6:20 TuTh or MW Carisimo	12:30-1:50 TuTh Kuzmanovic
COMP_SCI 341	Social Networks Analysis			3:30-6:20 Th Contractor	Remote/Asynchronous (5 weeks) (2 sessions) Contractor
COMP_SCI 341	Social Networks Analysis (CS 341-SA)
COMP_SCI 343	Operating Systems	12:30-1:50 TuTh Ghena	2-3:20 MW Dinda
COMP_SCI 344	Design of Problem Solvers
COMP_SCI 345	Distributed Systems			11-12:20 TuTh Bustamante
COMP_SCI 346	Microcontroller System Design	3:30-4:50 TuTh Ghena (Lab: F 1-2:50 OR F 3-4:50pm)		3:30-4:50 TuTh Ghena (Lab: F 1-2:50 OR F 3-4:50pm)
COMP_SCI 347, 447	Conversational AI			3:30-4:50 TuTh Forbus
COMP_SCI 348	Intro to Artificial Intelligence	2-3:20 TuTh Birnbaum	9:30-10:50 TuTh Rubenstein	11-12:20 MW Elkind	9:00-10:30 MW (Sync: Class meets remotely) Alam
COMP_SCI 349	Machine Learning	9:30-10:50 TuTh Wood-Doughty	9:30-10:50 TuTh Wood-Doughty	11-12:20 TuTh Wood-Doughty	9:00-10:30 TuTh (Sync: Class meets remotely) Alam
COMP_SCI 350	Introduction to Computer Security	9:30 -10:50 TuTh Chen
COMP_SCI 351-1	Intro to Computer Graphics	2-3:20 MW Geisler
COMP_SCI 351-2	Intermediate Computer Graphics
COMP_SCI 352	Machine Perception of Music & Audio		3:30-4:50 MW Pardo	3:30-4:50 MW J. Smith
COMP_SCI 353	Natural & Artificial Vision	11-12:20 TuTh Alexander
COMP_SCI 354	Computer System Security
COMP_SCI 355	Digital Forensics and Incident Response
COMP_SCI 358	Introduction to Parallel Computing	5-6:20 TuTh Hummel
COMP_ENG 361	Computer Architecture I	MW 12:30-1:50 Joseph
COMP_ENG 362	Computer Architecture Project		TuTh 11-12:20 Joseph
COMP_SCI 362, 462	Foundations of Quantum Computing and Quantum Information	9:30-10:50 MW Vijayaraghavan
COMP_ENG 365, 465	Internet-of-Things Sensors, Systems, and Applications
COMP_SCI 368, 468	Programming Massively Parallel Processors with CUDA		11-12:20 TuTh Hardavellas		10-1:00pm TTh (5 weeks) Hardavellas
COMP_SCI 371	Knowledge Representation and Reasoning		12:30-1:50 TuTh Forbus
COMP_SCI 372, 472	Designing and Constructing Models with Multi-Agent Languages
COMP_SCI 374	Causal Graphical Models		3:30-4:50 TuTh Wood-Doughty
COMP_SCI 376	Game Design and Development	4-4:50 MWF Horswill
COMP_SCI 377	Game Development Studio
COMP_SCI 380	Software Quality Engineering			10-10:50 MWF Y. Zhang	Does not meet (async) Y. Zhang
COMP_SCI 387	Responsible Software Engineering		3:30-4:50 TuTh St-Amour
COMP_SCI 388	Software Engineering Beyond Programming		11-12:20 TuTh St-Amour
COMP_SCI 392	Rapid Prototyping for Software Innovation	3-3:50 MWF Riesbeck
COMP_SCI 394	Agile Software Development		3:30-4:50 MW Riesbeck	9:30-10:50 MW (Riesbeck) or TuTh (Warren)
COMP_SCI 396	Advanced Graphics Seminar: VR/AR Systems
COMP_SCI 396	Declarative Programming for Game AI	1-1:50 MWF Horswill
COMP_SCI 396	Reasoning and Planning in the Foundation Model Era		9:30-10:50 MW Li
COMP_SCI 396	Computing, Ethics, and Society			3-4pm MWF Jacobs	11-12:30pm TTh (Sync: Class meets remotely) Ge
COMP_SCI 396	Differential Privacy: from Foundations to Machine Learning
COMP_SCI 396	Intro to Web Development	5-6:20 MW Tse			Remote/Asynchronous Chavez
COMP_SCI 396	Social AR/VR Studio
COMP_SCI 396	Fairness in ML	2-3:20 TuTh Wood-Doughty
COMP_SCI 396	Communicating Computer Science			3:30-4:50 MW Bain
COMP_SCI 396	Advanced Graphics Seminar
COMP_SCI 396	Advanced Offense and Defense in Cybersecurity
COMP_SCI 396	Software Design Principles and Practices	10-10:50 or 1-1:50 MWF Y. Zhang
COMP_SCI 396	Algorithms for Collective Decision Making		11-12:20 TuTh Elkind
COMP_SCI 396, 496	Advanced Algorithm Design through the Lens of Competitive Programming
COMP_SCI 396, 496	Data Management Seminar		9:30-10:50 TuTh Rogers
COMP_SCI 396, 496	Human-AI Interaction Research
COMP_SCI 396, 496	Programming Languages Seminar
COMP_SCI 396, 496	Security and Privacy Education
COMP_SCI 396, 496	AI Perspectives			2-4:50 F Alam
COMP_SCI 396, 496	AI for Science and Business			3:30-6:10 Th Choudhary
COMP_SCI 396, 496	NUVention Media		12:30- 3:20 Th Gilbert & Birnbaum
COMP_SCI 396, 496	Advanced Topics in Ubiquitous Computing			2-4:50 Th Ahuja
COMP_SCI 396, 496	CS Education Research in the Community		5-6:20 TuTh Horn	8-9:20 TuTh Worsley
COMP_SCI 396, 496	Computing, Ethics, and Society
COMP_SCI 396, 496	Misinformation and Disinformation in the Age of AI
COMP_SCI 396, 496	Computing and Sustainability			9:30-10:50 TuTh Arora
COMP_SCI 396, 496	Pedagogical Design in CS			12-1:20 MW Bain
COMP_SCI 396, 496	Machine Learning and Sensing	3:30-4:50 TuTh Ahuja		3:30-4:50 TuTh Ahuja
COMP_SCI 396, 496	Mobile and Ubiquitous computing	9:30-10:50 TuTh Arora
COMP_SCI 396, 496	Computational Commutative Algebra			TBD Pasechnik
COMP_SCI 396, 496	LLM-Assisted Security		TBD Chen	TBD Chen
COMP_SCI 397	Seminar in Statistical Language Modeling
COMP_SCI 397	Transformative CS Education			6:30-9:20 M Horn
COMP_SCI 397	Topics in HCI and Design
COMP_SCI 397	Seminar in Large Language Models
COMP_SCI 397	Applied AI for Software Development
COMP_SCI 397	Software Studio	9:30-10:50 TuTh Kurdia		9:30-10:50 TuTh Kurdia
COMP_SCI 397, 497	Advanced Topics in Compilers
COMP_SCI 397, 497	Sports, Technology and Learning	12:30-1:50 MW Worsley
COMP_SCI 397, 497	(Special Topics) Innovation in Journalism & Technology	2-3:50 TuTh Hammond & Wise	2-3:50 TuTh Wise & Hammond
COMP_SCI 397, 497	Multimodal learning analytics and interaction analysis
COMP_SCI 397, 497	Advanced Multimodal Interfaces and Analysis Research
COMP_SCI 397, 497	Selected Topics in Computer Networks			12:30-1:50 TuTh Kuzmanovic
COMP_SCI 367, 467	Wireless and Mobile Health (mHealth)			5-6:20 TuTh Alshurafa
COMP_SCI 397, 497	Innovation Lab: Building Technologies for the Law		2:35-5:30 Tu Linna Jr. & Hammond
COMP_SCI 398	Research Track Practicum
COMP_SCI 401	Introduction to Graduate Studies in Computer Science	11-12:20 TuTh Bustamante
COMP_SCI 407	Advanced Topics in Modern Cryptography		9:30-10:50 TuTh Wang
COMP_SCI 409	Swarms and Multi-Robot Systems	2-3:20 TuTh Rubenstein
COMP_SCI 410	Quadrotor Design and Control			12:30-3:20 Th Rubenstein
COMP_SCI 416	Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning			5-7:50 Tu Liu
COMP_SCI 432	Mechanism Design
COMP_SCI 433	Wireless Protocols for the Internet of Things			12:30-1:50 TuTh Ghena (Lab: F 11-12:20)
COMP_SCI 436	Graduate Algorithms			TBD Makarychev
COMP_SCI 437	Approximation Algorithms	11-12:20 TuTh Makarychev
COMP_SCI 440	Advanced Networking
COMP_SCI 445	Internet-scale Experimentation		11-12:20 TuTh Bustamante
COMP_SCI 446	Kernel and Other Low-level Software Development			2-3:20 MW Dinda
COMP_SCI 449	Deep Learning	11-12:20 TuTh Demeter	11-12:20 TuTh Demeter	11-12:20 TuTh Pardo
COMP_SCI 450	Internet Security	11-12:20 TuTh Chen
COMP_SCI 454	Computational Optics			3:30-4:50 TuTh Alexander
COMP_ENG 452	Advanced Computer Architecture I		TuTh 2-3:20 Hardavellas
COMP_ENG 453	Parallel Architectures			MW 3:30-4:50 Joseph
COMP_ENG 456	Modern Topics in Computer Architecture
COMP_ENG 459	VLSI Algorithmics	MW 2-3:20 S. Ogrenci
COMP_SCI 461	Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing	12:30-1:50 TuTh Demeter		12:30-1:50 TuTh Demeter
COMP_SCI 463	Generative Deep Models			2-4:50 W Pardo
COMP_SCI 469	Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Robotics	12:30-1:50 TuTh Argall
COMP_SCI 474	Probabilistic Graphical Models
COMP_SCI 496	Topics in Computational Imaging		9-11:50 F Alexander
COMP_SCI 496	The Design of Technological Tools for Thinking and Learning
COMP_SCI 496	Advanced Topics on Deep Learning			5-7:50 W Liu
COMP_SCI 496	Quantum Computer Systems		11-12:20 MW Smith
COMP_SCI 496	Special Topics In Data Systems Seminar			3-5:50 W Crotty
COMP_SCI 496	Engineering Modern Cryptographic Protocols			2-4:50 W Wang
COMP_SCI 496	Qualitative Reasoning Seminar
COMP_SCI 496	Visualization for Scientific Communication			2:30 -5:20 M Kay
COMP_SCI 496	Foundations of Reliable Machine Learning
COMP_SCI 496	HCI Methods for Health Research
COMP_SCI 496	Advanced System Security
COMP_SCI 496	Logic In AI
COMP_SCI 496	Modern Discrete Probability
COMP_SCI 496	Learning in Networks
COMP_SCI 496	Graduate Social Network Analysis	2-5pm F Contractor
COMP_SCI 496	Intro to Type Systems	11-12:20 TuTh Findler
COMP_SCI 496	Academic Job Search
COMP_SCI 496	Transformative AI and the Learning Sciences
COMP_SCI 496	Theory of Gradient-Based Optimization in ML
COMP_SCI 496	Emerging Risks for Humans Interacting with Technologies
COMP_SCI 496	Agent AI		2-4:50 M Li
COMP_SCI 496	Advanced Topics in Approximation Algorithms
COMP_SCI 496	Quantum Computer Applications and Programming			11-12:20 TuTh Smith
COMP_SCI 496	Data Economics	2-3:20 MW Hartline
COMP_SCI 496	Evolutionary Computation	2-3:20 TuTh Kriegman
COMP_SCI 496	The Expansion Phenomenon in Computer Science	11-12:20 TuTh Mohanty
COMP_SCI 496	Engineering Interactive Systems
COMP_SCI 375	Digital Musical Instrument Design
COMP_SCI 497	The Design of Tools and Technologies for Computer Science Education
COMP_SCI 497	Calibration (Foundations of Trustworthy ML)
COMP_SCI 497	Advanced Database Systems		3:30-4:50 MW Crotty
COMP_SCI 497	Prediction for Decision-Making			2-4:50 Th Hullman
COMP_SCI 497	Recent Highlights in the Theory of Machine Learning

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