Curriculum

Curriculum

• Culminating experience - research, project, or internship
• Concentration - professional or academic

Academic

• Should have solid background in programming, data structures & algorithms
• Three courses from master’s level Systems and Theory courses -
• CS 620 Theory of Computation II, CS 621 Discrete Structures II,
• CS 658 Algorithms II, CS 670 Concurrent Programming,
• CS 671 Operating Systems II, CS 673 Networking II
• Electives

Professional

• Should have some background in programming, high interest in CS, ready to work hard
• CS 500 Programming Fundamentals, CS 600 Concrete Mathematics
• Three courses from Interconnected Computing and Data Management & Analysis courses - CS 602 Mobile & Cloud Computing,
• CS 603 Networking & Security, CS 609 Web Programming and Applications,
• CS 610 Survey of Programming Languages,
• CS 611 Software Specification & Design,
• CS 617 Databases, Data Mining, & Big Data CS 618 Computational Biology
• Electives

Important outcomes

Both concentrations

• Programming and data structures / algorithms, working on large software projects

Academic concentration

• CS systems - in depth knowledge of inner workings of CS systems (e.g., OS and networks) and experience working on code for these systems
• CS theory - in depth knowledge of CS theory and experience with algorithm development and analysis
• Preparation for entry into workforce or CS Ph.D. program

Professional concentration

• Interconnected computing - experience using programming and software tools that interface between systems
• Data management & analysis - experience using programming and software tools to store, manage, and analyze data
• Preparation for entry into workforce
• Other information
• Job titles after graduation - software developer, programmer (web, systems, mobile, programming language specific, etc.), administrator (system, network, database, OS specific, etc.), CS instructor