Area A. Core Courses
- (CS 55500 or ECE62700) and (CS52600 or C&IT 55500)
- PHIL 52400 or PHIL58000N† or TECH 62100
- POL 62100
- TECH 69800 (for the thesis option only; e.g. C&IT 69800 or IT 69800)
Area B. In-Depth Courses
One of the following courses:
and any two of the following courses (three for the non-thesis option):
- AGEC 59600F, 60800, 68500, 69100K
- ASM 59100A, 59100B, 59100S
- AT 57300, 58100B
- COM 55900, 59000R
- CNIT 45500, 49900C, 42100, 49900N, 55600, 55700, 55800, 58100C, 58100R, 58100S, 58100V, 58100Z, 62300R
- 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 68900 (=ECE 66900)
- MGMT 54700§, 59000, 68400
- OBHR 68100, 68300
- PHIL 52400*, 58000A, 58000B, 58000N†, 62400
- POL 52100, 52500, 56200€, 56800, 58200, 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 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
€ not offered in recent years due to staff shortages.
