Plan of Study for CDS Master's Students

Required Course Work

• Required Undergraduate Stem Work and CS Core (These do NOT count towards your graduate degree credits.)
• COSC 1436 Programming Fundamentals I
• COSC 1437 Programming Fundamentals II
• COSC 3318 Database Management Systems
• COSC 3319 Data Structures and Algorithms
• COSC 4318 Programming Languages
• COSC 4327 Computer Operating Systems
• MATH 1420 Calculus I
• STAT 3379 Statistical Methods in Practice
• Course Work Requirements
All CDS MS students must earn a minimum of 30 units of graduate credits to earn their degrees:
• 21 hours of CDS core credits (7 courses), and
• 9 hours of track credits (3 coureses)
  • CDS core courses:

    	CDS (Thesis)	CDS (Non-Thesis)
    COSC 5318 Database Systems	✓	✓
    COSC 5319 Algorithm Design and Analysis	✓	✓
    COSC 5327 Operating Systems	✓	✓
    COSC 6318 Language and Compiler Design	✓	✓
    COSC 6319 Software Engineering	✓	✓
    COSC 6348 Thesis 1	✓ (Must register at your penultimate-Semester)
    COSC 6049 Thesis 2	✓ (Must register at your terminal-Semester)
    COSC 5050 Independent Study		✓
    COSC 6347 Programming Practicum		✓ (Must register at your terminal-Semester)

  • Track courses:

    	Data Science Track	Systems Track
    COSC 5313 Artificial Intelligence	✓
    COSC 6314 Data Mining/Knowldge Discovery	✓
    COSC 6315 Machine Learning	✓
    COSC 5321 Parallel Computing		✓
    COSC 5322 Real-Time and Embedded Systems		✓
    COSC 5326 Networks & Data Communications		✓

Registrations

• Students are required to register for courses as a cohort during their studies to graduate on time.
  • If you were admitted and started your program at Fall 2021, you are in Fall 2021 Registration Cohort.
  • Each semester, students in the same corhort will be enrolled in the same courses unless otherwise approved by the graduate advisor.
• If acceptance letter indicates any lack in Stem Work, you must complete those in your first major semester.
• Students can take 1 - 4 courses per semester.
• Below is a suggested degree plans. Carefully plan your coursework as most courses open only once (at Spring, Summer or Fall only) during an academic year.
• Request to change your concentration from Thesis to Non-Thesis must be completed before your penultimate-semester to graduate on time.