Information Assurance (IA) Core Courses COS 533: Cryptography Algorithms COS 581: Advanced Cryptography Algorithms COS 582: Secure E-Commerce COS 583: Enterprise Security Managements COS 584: Secure System Administration and Certification

Electives

Courses listed above and not used as core courses can be used as electives. The other electives are:

Computer Science Theory (THR)

(12 hours required) COS 532: Computation COS 534: Theory of Programming Languages COS 537: Artificial Intelligence COS 539: Compiler Design COS 542: Distributed Operating Systems COS 543: Numerical Methods and Applications

Information Technology (IT)

(12 hours required)

COS 512: WEB Engineering COS 514: Database and Data Mining COS 516: Computer Vision COS 517: E-Commerce COS 519: Managing Information Technology COS 520: Multimedia Design COS 551: Experts Systems COS 552: Storage Area Network COS 553: Common Gateway Interface

Information Assurance (IA) (6 hours required)

COS 585: Information Security COS 586: Information System Assurance COS 587: Database Security COS 588: Computer Network Security COS 589: Information Security Risk Analysis

Common Electives

COS 599: Special Topics in Technology COS 600: Research Methodology COS 682: Seminar on Management Information Systems COS 683: Decision Support Systems COS 697: Independent Study COS 698: Internship in Computer Science COS 796: Project Course (may be repeated once) COS 799: Thesis (may be repeated once)

Master's Thesis

1. Students submitting a thesis in partial fulfillment of the master’s degree must prepare it in conformity with the regulations approved 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) typewritten, 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.

Minimum Hours Required

30. The Master of Science in the Computer Science Technology Degree Program requires a minimum of thirty (30) semester credit hours, not including the foundation courses.

Comprehensive Examination(s)/Thesis Defense

All candidates with a thesis option and a project option must defend their work. All other students will be subject to an exit examination with written and oral components. The graduate committee may declare a candidate successful or may ask him/her to repeat the defense. Anyone not successful after two attempts will be terminated with no degree conferred from the MSCST program.

Time Limit for Degree Completion

All program requirements must be completed within three (3) years from initial admission for full-time and four (4) years for part-time students from initial admission, unless otherwise approved by the Computer Science Graduate Student Coordinator.

Repeat Option

A student may repeat a graduate course. The lower grade is removed and does not count toward total hours or toward the student’s grade-point-average. This action will be initiated by the petition of the student to the Graduate Student Coordinator and the Division of Computer and Technical Sciences, and may be done only once per course.

Probation

If, upon completion of 12 or more semester credit hours of graduate course work, a student has a GPA of less than 3.0, he/she is placed on academic probation. He/she will have one full-time semester or the equivalent (9 semester credit hours) to remove the scholastic probation by attaining a 3.0 average cumulative.

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