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            "text": "Courses listed above and not used as core courses can be used as electives. The other electives are:"
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            "text": "(12 hours required)\nCOS 532: Computation\nCOS 534: Theory of Programming Languages\nCOS 537: Artificial Intelligence\nCOS 539: Compiler Design\nCOS 542: Distributed Operating Systems\nCOS 543: Numerical Methods and Applications"
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            "text": "Students submitting a thesis in partial fulfillment of the master’s degree must prepare it in conformity with the regulations app roved by the Computer and Technical Sciences Graduate Student Committee. Three (3) approval pages bearing original signatures of the graduate committee must be included with three (3) type written, clear, unbound copies of the thesis, all presented to the CTS Graduate Student Committee at least two weeks prior to the end of summer school and three weeks prior to the end of the Fall or Spring semester. Two (2) copies are bound and become a property of the Program; one (1) copy is bound and becomes a property of Blazer Library. A thesis must be developed under the direction of a full-time member of the Graduate Faculty."
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