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 C&IT 55500)
- PHIL 52400 or PHIL 58000N† or TECH 62100
- POL 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 53100 or LING 52100.
One of the following courses:
- AGEC 59600F, 60800, 68500, 69100K
- ASM 59100B, 59100S
- AT 57300, 58100B
- CNIT 45500, 49900C, 42100, 49900N, 55600, 55700, 55800, 58100C, 58100R, 58100S, 58100Z, 62300R
- COM 55700, 63200G
- CS 50300, 53600§, 56500, 58000, 59000W, 62600, 63600, 65500
- CSR 63100
- ECON 60700, 61000
- ECE 63200, 56500, 57200, 57400, 66900 (=LING 68900N)
- ECET 52500
- IE 53000, 53200, 54800, 55900§, 57700§, 65900, 67400
- IT 54500
- LING 68900N (=ECE 66900)
- MGMT 54700§, 59000, 68400
- OBHR 68100, 68300
- PHIL 52400*, 58000A, 58000B, 58000N* 58000N†, 62400
- POL 52100, 52500, 56200, 56800, 58200, 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
- ECET 58100
- ECON 67600, 67700
- EDCI 64400
- ECE 54400, 56200, 56500, 56600, 57200, 57300, 63200
- FNR 55800
- LING 50000, 53100, 53200
- MGMT 50500, 50600, 54400, 54500, 56100, 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 to the students. The 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.
* unless taken under Area A
§ Note: May take one or the other of the following but not both:
- CS 53600 or ECE 56000 or MGMT 54700
- PSY 57700 or IE 57700
- PSY 55500 or IE 55900
- TECH 50800 or STAT 51300
† When content is appropriate
