Courses are not taught every semester so your plan of study should take this into account.
Area A. Core Courses
- CS 55500 or CS 35500 and (CS 52600 or CNIT 55500)
- PHIL 52400 or PHIL 41100 or PHIL 42400 or PHIL 62400† or TECH 62100 IAE†
- POL 62000† —or equivalents; e.g. TECH 62100 TAP†, CS 52300
LING 69800 (for the thesis option only)
*PHIL 58000 is no longer available, but if you have already taken PHIL 58000, it will be recognized as meeting your requirements.
Area B. Recommended Courses
LING 68900 when taught as Natural Language Processing (may substitute with CNIT 58100 NLT or CNIT 62300 NLIAS) and
one of the following courses: LING 52100 or LING 53100.
One of the following courses:
- AGEC 60800, 69100†
- ASM 59100†
- AT 53200
- CNIT 42100, 42200, 45500, 45600, 47000, 47100, 49900†, 51100, 51200, 55600, 55700, 55800, 58100†, 62300†
- COM 55900, 59000†, 63200†,
- CS 50300, 52300, 52700, 52800, 52900, 53600§, 53700, 55600, 56500, 57700, 58000, 59000†, 62600, 63600, 65500
- CSR 63100
- ECE 56500
- ECET 52500
- ECON 60600, 61000
- EDPS 53300
- ENE 69500
- IE 53000, 53200, 57700§, 65900, 67400
- IT 53000, 54000, 54500, 58100†
- LING 59300†, 68900†,
- MGMT 54700§, 68400
- OBHR 68100, 68300
- PHIL 49000, 52400*, 53500 62400†
- POL 43000, 62000†
- PSY 57700§
- STAT 502000, 51200, 51300, 51400, 51700
- TECH 58100†, 62100†
Area C. Elective Courses
Any two of the following courses:
- CNIT 58100†, CNIT 62300 NLIAS (Natural Language in Information Assurance and Security) when not taken as Area B
- CS 50200, 54100, 54200, 57300
- ECE 54400, 56200, 56500, 57000, 57300
- ECET 58100†
- FNR 55800
- LING 50000, 53100, 68900†
- MGMT 50500, 50600, 54400, 54500, 56100, 59000†, 60000, 60100, 63000, 68300
- OBHR 64200, 64300
- POL 62200
- STAT 69500†
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.
- CS 53600 or MGMT 54700
- PSY 57700 or IE 57700
Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Requirement
All graduate students are required to complete the CITI RCR training module within 120 days of starting a graduate program and every five (5) years thereafter. More Information
