Courses are not taught every semester so your plan of study should take this into account.
Area A. Core Courses
- (CS 55500 or ECE 62700) and (CS 52600 or CNIT 55500)
- PHIL 52400 or PHIL 58000N† or TECH 62100†
- POL 62000 —or equivalents; e.g. TECH 62100†
- LING 69800 (for the thesis option only)
Area B. Recommended Courses
LING 68900 (when taught as Natural Language Processing) and one of the following courses: LING 52100 or LING 53100 (ENGL 51100).
One of the following courses:
- AGEC 59600F, 60800, 68500, 69100K†
- ASM 59100B, 59100S
- AT 57300, 53200
- CNIT 42100, 45500, 45600, 49900C, 52800, 55600, 55700, 55800,58100AIS, 58100C, 58100HLS, 58100, 58100S, 58100V, 58100Z, 62300R, 62300 NLS
- COM 55700, 63200G†
- CS 50300, 53600§, 56500, 58000, 59000W, 62600, 63600, 65500
- CSR 63100
- ECE 56500, 57200, 57400, 63200, 66900 (=LING 68900N)
- ECET 52500
- ECON 60700, 61000
- IE 53000, 53200, 54800, 55900§, 57700§, 65900, 67400
- IT 54500
- LING 68900N (=ECE 66900, ENGL 62800), 59300†
- MGMT 54700§, 59000, 68400
- OBHR 68100, 68300
- PHIL 52400*, 58000†*, 62400
- POL 56200, 60700, 62000, 62100*, 66000
- PSY 52100, 55500§, 57700§, 58500, 62900
- STAT 502000, 51200, 51300,51400, 51700
Area C. Elective Courses
Any two of the following courses:
- ASM 59100A
- C&IT 52800, 55700, 58100V
- CS 50200, 54100, 54200, 57300
- ECE 54400, 56200, 56500, 56600, 57000, 57300, 63200
- ECET 58100
- ECON 67600, 67700
- EDCI 64400
- FNR 55800
- LING 50000 (ENGL 59600), 53100 (ENGL 51100), 53200, 68900Humor (ENGL 62700)
- MGMT 50500, 50600, 54400, 54500, 56100, 59000, 59000E†, 60000, 60100, 63000, 68300
- OBHR 64200, 64300, 66300, 66700
- POL 62200,
- PSY 55600, 57900
- TECH 64600
Courses from at least three different graduate programs should be taken between Areas B and C. Other courses, often under variable numbers and offered on a one-time or occasional basis, may be of interest. Students are encouraged to bring those courses to the attention of those advisors, who may recommend these to other students and approve the substitution of these courses for some courses listed above.
Under the thesis option, the master’s thesis must be completed and defended in an oral examination administered by the Advisory Committee. Under the examination option, a 3-hour written examination is administered by the student’s Advisory Committee. This option is rarely employed and only in unusual circumstances.
* unless taken under Area A
§ Note: May take one or the other of the following but not both:
† When content is appropriate
