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†
• TECH 69800 (for the thesis option only; e.g. CNIT 69800 or IT 69800)

Area B. In-Depth Courses

One of the following courses:

• STAT 50200, 51200, 51300

and any two of the following courses:

• AGEC 59600F, 60800, 68500, 69100K†
• ASM 59100HS, 59100B, 59100S
• AT 57300, 53200
• COM 55900, 59000R†
• CNIT 42100, 45500, 45600, 49900C, 52800, 55600, 55700, 55800, 58100AIS, 58100C, 58100 HLS, 58100†, 58100S, 58100V, 58100Z, 62300R, 62300 NLS
• CS 50300, 53600§, 56500, 58000, 59000W†, 62600, 63600, 65500
• CSR 63100
• ECE 56500, 57200, 57400, 63200, 66900 (=LING 68900N)
• ECET 52500
• ECON 60600, 61000
• IE 53000, 53200, 54800, 55900§, 57700§, 65900, 67400
• IT 54500
• LING 68900 (=ECE 66900)
• MGMT 54700§, 59000IRM, 59000DGD, 68400
• OBHR 68100, 68300
• PHIL 52400*, 58000†, 62400
• POL 56200€, 60700€, 62000, 62100*, 66000€
• PSY 55500§, 57700§, 58500, 62900
• STAT 51400, 51700

Area C. Breadth Courses

• IT 50700 and TECH 64600 (It is preferable to take this before the 4th semester and your thesis work).

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:

• CS 53600 or ECE 56000 or MGMT 54700
• PSY 57700 or IE 57700
• PSY 55500 or IE 55900

† When content is appropriate
€ not offered in recent years due to staff shortages.