Core Courses For the MSCS and MCS Degree Programs

All Master of CS students must include in their Program of Study at least one course from each of the following three core areas. All Master of Science in CS students must include at least one course each in Programming and Systems and at least two courses in Theory.

Programming Core Courses

• CS 522 Data Mining
• CS 525 Advanced Database Organization
• CS 529 Information Retrieval Systems
• CS 540 Syntactic Analysis of Programming Languages
• CS 546 Parallel Processing
• CS 551 Operating System Design and Implementation

Systems Core Courses

• CS 542 Computer Networks I: Fundamentals
• CS 544 Computer Networks II: Network Services
• CS 547 Wireless Networking
• CS 550 Advanced Operating Systems
• CS 555 Analytic Models of Simulation of Computer Systems
• CS 570 Advanced Computer Architecture
• CS 586 Software Systems Architectures

Theory Core Courses

• CS 530 Theory of Computation
• CS 532 Formal Languages
• CS 533 Computational Geometry
• CS 535 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
• CS 536 Science of Programming
• CS 538 Combinatorial Optimization