Program Requirements
General Program Requirements:
Number of Credits Required Beyond the Baccalaureate: 30
Required Courses:
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Courses | ||
| CIS 5511 | Programming Techniques | 3 |
| CIS 5515 | Design and Analysis of Algorithms | 3 |
| CIS 5526 | Machine Learning | 3 |
| Select one from the following: | 3 | |
CIS 5512 | Operating Systems | |
CIS 5516 | Principles of Data Management | |
CIS 5642 | Computer Architecture | |
| Electives | 15-12 | |
| Select at most three Big Data courses from the following: | ||
CIS 5512 | Operating Systems 1 | |
CIS 5516 | Principles of Data Management 1 | |
CIS 5517 | Data-Intensive and Cloud Computing | |
CIS 5590 | Topics in Computer Science 2 | |
CIS 5642 | Computer Architecture 1 | |
CIS 5643 | Emerging Storage Systems and Technologies | |
CIS 5644 | Distributed Systems | |
CIS 9665 | Advanced Topics in Data Base Systems | |
| Select at most three Data Analysis courses from the following: | ||
CIS 5523 | Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining | |
CIS 5524 | Analysis and Modeling of Social and Information Networks | |
CIS 5525 | Neural Computation | |
CIS 5535 | Probabilistic Graph Models | |
CIS 5538 | Text Mining and Language Processing | |
CIS 5543 | Computer Vision | |
CIS 5603 | Artificial Intelligence | |
| Select at most two Statistics and domain-related courses 2 | ||
| Select at most one CIS course numbered less than 5500 2 | ||
| Select at most three credits of Independent Study: | ||
CIS 9282 | Independent Study 2 | |
| Capstone Course | ||
| CIS 9995 | Capstone Project | 3-6 |
| or CIS 9996 | Master's Thesis Research | |
| Total Credit Hours | 30 | |
- 1
Course may be selected as an elective if not taken as a core course above.
- 2
Selection of any of these courses requires approval from the student's advisor.
Culminating Event:
Capstone Project:
Under the close supervision of CIS graduate faculty, students complete a capstone project as the culminating event. CIS 9995 Capstone Project is taken for only 3 credits. Students who choose to complete a master's thesis must take 6 credits of CIS 9996 Master's Thesis Research for the capstone.