| Week # | Week of | Tuesday class | Thursday class | Due dates |
| 1 | 22-Sep | (n/a) | The high cost of poorly understood requirements. What are requirements & who are customers? Overview of course. [Activities: Context diagrams, SSM stakeholder classification, planning customer interviews] | |
| 2 | 9/29/1997 [Tue: RE National Awareness Day (UK)] | Overview of ScenIC. | ScenIC continued. Obstacles and scenarios. Operational definitions. | Tue: Read IC paper Thu: Read ScenIC guidebook. |
| 3 | 6-Oct | Other goal-refinement approaches KAOS. Business process reengineering and i*. | Objectives/scenarios presentations and feedback | Thu: Objectives and scenarios |
| 4 | 13-Oct | Functional specifications | Other scenario-based approaches. Use cases in OOA. | |
| 5 | 20-Oct | Model-based formal specification. | [Possible late start at 4:45] Interviewing technique. Joint application design. | Thu: Functional spec. |
| 6 | 27-Oct | Functional spec. presentations and feedback [Possibly no class or shortened class] | [No class: Irvine EDCS Workshop] | |
| 7 | 3-Nov | Context in requirements engineering. Design ethnography. Participatory design | Contextual inquiry | Tue: Read Beyer & Holzblatt Parts 1&2. Thu: Select work situation for CI project. |
| 8 | 10-Nov | Contextual inquiry | Contextual modeling & analysis [Possible late start at 4:45] | Thu: Read B&H Part 3. |
| 9 | 17-Nov | Contextual modeling and analysis | Contextual analysis | Tue: Affinity notes |
| 10 | 24-Nov | Contextual design | [No class: Thanksgiving Holiday] | Tue: Consolidated models. |
| 11 | 1-Dec | (Joint with CS 6144) ScenIC View requirements presentations & critique | Course review. | Tue: Requirements document Tue: B&H Parts 4&5. |
| 12 | 8-Dec | (n/a) | (n/a) | No final |