Computer Science-CS (CS) < Colorado State University

Courses

CS 110 Personal Computing Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Hardware/software concepts, Internet services, OS commands, electronic presentations, spreadsheets, databases, programming concepts.
Prerequisite: None.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Credit not allowed for both CS 110 and BUS 150. Sections may be offered: Online.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Grade Modes: S/U within Student Option, Trad within Student Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 150A Culture and Coding: Java (GT-AH3) Credits: 3 (2-2-0)

Course Description: Survey of computer science, formal logic, and computational thinking. Explores the historical, gender, and cultural perspectives on the role of technology in society. Includes learning basic elements of the Java programming language. Write small programs, and construct written arguments on ways in which technology influences our modern culture. Previous computer science experience not necessary.
Prerequisite: None.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online. Credit allowed for only one of the following: CS 150, CS 150A, or CS 150B.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.
Additional Information: Arts & Humanities 3B, Ways of Thinking (GT-AH3).

CS 150B Culture and Coding: Python (GT-AH3) Credits: 3 (2-2-0)

Course Description: Survey of computer science, formal logic, and computational thinking. Explores the historical, gender, and cultural perspectives on the role of technology in society. Includes learning basic elements of the Python programming language. Write small programs, and construct written arguments on ways in which technology influences our modern culture. Previous computer science experience not necessary.
Prerequisite: None.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online. Credit allowed for only one of the following: CS 150, CS 150A, or CS 150B.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.
Additional Information: Arts & Humanities 3B, Ways of Thinking (GT-AH3).

CS 152 Python for STEM Credits: 2 (1-0-1)

Course Description: Introductory Python programming for students with no prior programming experience focusing on STEM disciplines. Topics include variables, types, operators, expressions, conditionals, loops, functions, lists, dictionaries, strings, file input/output, and modules. Programming is motivated with examples and assignments from various STEM fields.
Prerequisite: CS 163 or MATH 124 with a minimum grade of B or MATH 125 with a minimum grade of B or MATH 126 with a minimum grade of B or MATH 127 with a minimum grade of B or MATH 141 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 155 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 156 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 157 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 159 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 160 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and recitation. Sections may be offered: Online.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 155 Introduction to Unix Credit: 1 (1-0-0)

Course Description: Unix shell commands, utilities (editors, sorting, file management), shell scripting.
Prerequisite: None.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 156 Introduction to C Programming I Credit: 1 (1-0-0)

Course Description: Basic elements of language structure, data types, expressions, program control flow and modularity.
Prerequisite: (CS 155, may be taken concurrently) and (MATH 118 or MATH 127).
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 157 Introduction to C Programming II Credit: 1 (1-0-0)

Course Description: More basic design types, function usage and strings. Arrays, user-defined types and structures, enumerated types, recursion, dynamic storage allocation.
Prerequisite: (CS 156, may be taken concurrently) and (MATH 118 or MATH 127).
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 158 Mathematical Algorithms in C Credit: 1 (0-2-0)

Also Offered As: MATH 158.
Course Description: Compilers, expressions, variable types, control statements, pointers, logical statements, plotting, secant method, trapezoidal rule, recursion.
Prerequisite: MATH 151 and CS 156 and MATH 160.
Registration Information: Credit not allowed for both CS 158 and MATH 158.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 162 CS1--Introduction to Java Programming Credits: 2 (1-0-1)

Course Description: Introduction to java and object oriented programming concepts. Topics include variables, assignment, expressions, operators, Booleans, conditionals, characters and strings, loops, arrays, objects and classes, file input/output, interfaces, recursion, lists, and sorting. Covers four pillars of object oriented programming: Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance, and Polymorphism. Assumes prior programming experience.
Prerequisite: CS 150B with a minimum grade of B or CS 152 with a minimum grade of B, may be taken concurrently or CS 163.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and recitation. This is a partial semester course. Sections may be offered: Online.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 163 CS1---No Prior Programming Experience Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Computer programming for students without previous programming experience. Topics include variables, assignment, expressions, operators, booleans, conditionals, characters and strings, control loops, arrays, objects and classes, file input/output, interfaces, recursion, lists, and sorting.
Prerequisite: CIS 240 with a minimum grade of C or CS 150A with a minimum grade of C or CS 150B with a minimum grade of C or CS 152 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 120 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 124 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 127 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online. Credit allowed for only one of the following courses: CS 160, CS 163, or CS 164.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 164 CS1--Computational Thinking with Java Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Learn computational thinking using Java as the primary language. Problem formulation and decomposition, data representation, and algorithmic design. Coding concepts include expressions, operators, Booleans, conditionals, characters and strings, loops, arrays, objects and classes, file input/output, interfaces, recursion, lists, and sorting. Covers four pillars of object oriented programming: Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance, and Polymorphism.
Prerequisite: CIS 240 with a minimum grade of B or CS 150A with a minimum grade of B or CS 150B with a minimum grade of B or CS 152 with a minimum grade of B or CS 163.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 165 CS2--Data Structures Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Object oriented concepts, assertions, inheritance, polymorphism, algorithms and data structures using an object oriented language.
Prerequisite: CS 162 with a minimum grade of C or CS 163 with a minimum grade of C or CS 164 with a minimum grade of C or CIS 340 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online. Credit not allowed for both CS 165 and CS 200.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 192 First-Year Seminar-Computer Science Credit: 1 (0-0-1)

Course Description: Computer science as a field of study and a major program at CSU. Addresses career exploration, research experience opportunities, post-graduation planning, and building a skill base of successful academic strategies.
Prerequisite: None.
Restriction: Must be a: Undergraduate.
Registration Information: Freshman and sophomore Computer Science and Applied Computing Technology majors only.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 201 Ethical Computing Systems (GT-AH3) Credits: 3 (3-0-0)

Also Offered As: PHIL 201.
Course Description: Survey of contemporary ethical issues in information technology and software development. Explore moral, social, and legal issues with information technology in the modern world. Construct arguments based on modern ethical issues, and issues explored through science fiction.
Prerequisite: None.
Registration Information: Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.
Additional Information: Arts & Humanities 3B, Ways of Thinking (GT-AH3).

CS 214 Software Development Credits: 3 (2-0-1)

Course Description: Development of large software systems. Design and enhance the features and quality of a large system while using tools for software engineering and project management.
Prerequisite: CS 165 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and recitation. Sections may be offered: Online.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 220 Discrete Structures and their Applications Credits: 4 (3-0-1)

Course Description: Integer representations and properties, propositions, predicates, sets, functions, program proofs, induction, counting, complexity; Python implementations of these concepts.
Prerequisite: (CS 152 with a minimum grade of B or CS 162 with a minimum grade of C or CS 163 with a minimum grade of C or CS 164 with a minimum grade of C) and (MATH 155 or MATH 156 or MATH 159 or MATH 160).
Restriction: Must not be a: Freshman.
Registration Information: Sophomore standing. Must register for lecture and recitation. Sections may be offered: Online.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 250 Computer Systems Foundations Credits: 4 (3-0-1)

Course Description: Foundations of computer systems encompassing processors, networks, storage, and computing frameworks. Discussion of processors, cores, and co-processors (GPUs, TPUs). Speed differential across the memory hierarchy and the implications of caching. Data structures for storage systems. Overview of parallel and distributed computing frameworks. Future computing systems including neuromorphic computing.
Prerequisite: CS 162 with a minimum grade of C or CS 163 with a minimum grade of C or CS 164 with a minimum grade of C.
Restriction: Must not be a: Freshman.
Registration Information: Sophomore standing. Must register for lecture and recitation. Sections may be offered: Online. Credit not allowed for both CS 250 and CS 280A1.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 253 Software Development with C++ Credits: 4 (3-0-1)

Course Description: Developing and modifying large software. Relating programming language to its machine implementation. C++ programming for experienced programmers.
Prerequisite: CS 165 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and recitation. Sections may be offered: Online. Credit not allowed for both CS 253 and CT 301.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Modes: S/U within Student Option, Trad within Student Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 270 Computer Organization Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Data representation, arithmetic, assembly and C language, digital logic and systems, Boolean algebra, circuits, CPU and memory models, state machines.
Prerequisite: CS 163 with a minimum grade of C or CS 164 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Sophomore standing. Computer Science and Applied Computing Technology majors only. Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 295 Independent Study Credits: Var[1-4] (0-0-0)

Course Description: Investigation of special topics under direction of computer science faculty.
Prerequisite: None.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Grade Mode: Instructor Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 310H Design Thinking Toolbox: Mixed Reality Design Credits: 3 (3-0-0)

Also Offered As: IDEA 310H.
Course Description: Introduction to topics in virtual and augmented reality. Learn how to create virtual (i.e., artificial) worlds using a game engine to provide hands-on experience and promote "iterative tinkering” through exploration of various design processes.
Prerequisite: CS 214 with a minimum grade of C or CS 253 with a minimum grade of C or IDEA 210.
Registration Information: Sophomore standing. Sections may be offered: Online. Credit not allowed for both CS 310H and IDEA 310H.
Term Offered: Fall (even years).
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: Yes.

CS 312 Modern Web Applications Credits: 3 (2-2-0)

Course Description: Development of the modern web application. Emphasis on the essentials needed to create fully functional web applications including rich graphical content and dynamic content, using modern web standards. Explore service-based architecture, web UX design, asynchronous content delivery, and full-stack development.
Prerequisite: CIS 340 with a minimum grade of C or CS 165 with a minimum grade of C or JTC 370 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online. Credit allowed for only one of the following: CIS 410, CS 312, or CT 310.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 314 Software Engineering Credits: 3 (3-0-0)

Course Description: Principles, concepts, and techniques associated with team-based development of large, complex software systems. Topics include teamwork, configuration management, project management, requirements engineering, and systematic testing techniques. Use software tools in the context of a Scrum-based Agile development project.
Prerequisite: CS 214 with a minimum grade of C or CS 253 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Sections may be offered: Online.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 320 Algorithms--Theory and Practice Credits: 3 (3-0-0)

Course Description: Analysis, design, implementation and applications of algorithms.
Prerequisite: (CS 220 with a minimum grade of C and CS 165 with a minimum grade of C) and (MATH 155 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 156 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 160 with a minimum grade of C) and (DSCI 369 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 229 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 369 with a minimum grade of C).
Registration Information: Sections may be offered: Online.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 345 Machine Learning Foundations and Practice Credits: 3 (3-0-0)

Course Description: Machine learning algorithms and tools for predictive modeling presented using case studies that inform their use in real-world applications.
Prerequisite: (CS 220 with a minimum grade of C) and (CS 150B with a minimum grade of C or CS 152 with a minimum grade of C or CS 165 with a minimum grade of C or DSCI 235 with a minimum grade of C) and (MATH 155 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 156 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 159 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 160 with a minimum grade of C) and (STAT 301 with a minimum grade of C or STAT 302A with a minimum grade of C or ECE 303 with a minimum grade of C or STAT 303 with a minimum grade of C or STAT 307 with a minimum grade of C or STAT 315 with a minimum grade of C).
Registration Information: Sections may be offered: Online. Credit not allowed for both CS 345 and DSCI 445.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 356 Systems Security Credits: 3 (3-0-0)

Course Description: Computer and system security, authentication, access control, malicious software, and software security.
Prerequisite: CS 214 with a minimum grade of C or CS 253 with a minimum grade of C or CS 370 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Sections may be offered: Online.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 370 Operating Systems Credits: 3 (3-0-0)

Course Description: Introduction to operating systems including memory organization, I/O control, multitasking, process control, coordination, and resource management.
Prerequisite: (CS 165 with a minimum grade of C) and (CS 250 with a minimum grade of C or CS 270 with a minimum grade of C or ECE 251 with a minimum grade of C).
Registration Information: Sections may be offered: Online.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 384 Supervised College Teaching Credits: Var[1-2] (0-0-0)

Course Description: Work closely with the professor of record on pedagogy for teaching computer science labs and recitations.
Prerequisite: None.
Registration Information: Written consent of instructor. A maximum of 10 combined credits for all 384 and 484 courses are counted toward graduation requirements.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Instructor Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 410 Introduction to Computer Graphics Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Graphics hardware and software; drawing simple objects; coordinate transformations in 2D and 3D; modeling and viewing complex 2D and 3D objects.
Prerequisite: (CS 214 with a minimum grade of C or CS 253 with a minimum grade of C) and (DSCI 369 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 229 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 369 with a minimum grade of C).
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 414 Object-Oriented Design Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Object-oriented methods for large-scale software systems. Software design for reuse using patterns. WWW applications in languages, e.g., Java.
Prerequisite: CS 314 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 415 Software Testing Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Systematic approaches to software testing, theoretical foundations, and the current state of practice. Techniques and tools that improve software testing and overall development skills.
Prerequisite: CS 314 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 420 Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms Credits: 4 (3-0-1)

Prerequisite: CS 320 with a minimum grade of C.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 422 Automata, Logic, and Computation Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Foundations for modeling and analysis of computational systems. Topics include finite-state automata, regular expressions, pushdown automata, context-free languages, Turing machines and decidability, reducibility, logical theories.
Prerequisite: CS 320 with a minimum grade of C or ECE 312 with a minimum grade of B or MATH 360 with a minimum grade of B or MATH 366 with a minimum grade of B.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online. Credit not allowed for both CS 422 and CS 480A4.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 425 Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Algorithms for analysis of large scale biological data.
Prerequisite: (BZ 360 with a minimum grade of C or CS 320 with a minimum grade of C) and (CS 345 with a minimum grade of C).
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 430 Database Systems Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Database analysis, design, administration, implementation, hierarchical, network relational models; data sublanguages; query facilities.
Prerequisite: CS 314 with a minimum grade of C or CS 370 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 435 Introduction to Big Data Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Fundamental issues in Big Data. Examine issues related to data organization, storage, retrieval, analysis and knowledge discovery at scale. Topics include large-scale data analysis, scalable computing frameworks, data storage systems, and semi-structured data models. Involves hands-on programming assignments and term project using real-world datasets.
Prerequisite: CS 320 with a minimum grade of C or CS 370 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 440 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Concepts, representations, and algorithms for solving search, logical reasoning and machine learning problems.
Prerequisite: CS 320 with a minimum grade of C and CS 345 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 445 Introduction to Machine Learning Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Fundamental concepts and methods of computational data analysis, including pattern classification, prediction, visualization, and recent topics in deep learning.
Prerequisite: (CS 165 with a minimum grade of C) and (CS 345 with a minimum grade of C or DSCI 445 with a minimum grade of C and DSCI 235 with a minimum grade of C) and (DSCI 369 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 229 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 369 with a minimum grade of C).
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online. Credit not allowed for both: CS 445 and CS 480A3.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 453 Introduction to Compiler Construction Credits: 4 (3-0-1)

Course Description: Functional components of a compiler: modules, interfaces, lexical and syntax analysis, error recovery, resource allocation, code generation.
Prerequisite: CS 314 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and recitation. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 454 Principles of Programming Languages Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Language design concepts; functional programming; interpreter support for environments, procedures, recursion, types, objects; language paradigms.
Prerequisite: CS 253 with a minimum grade of C and CS 320 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 455 Introduction to Distributed Systems Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Distributed systems including model of distributed computations; concurrency; thread pools and scalable servers; distributed mutual exclusion; cloud computing; distributed graph algorithms; data representation formats; atomic transactions; large-scale storage systems; distributed shared memory; and overlays.
Prerequisite: CS 370 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. CS majors and minors only. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 456 Modern CyberSecurity Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Contemporary cyber-security issues; techniques, programs, tools and methods for examining contemporary cyber-attacks and cyber-defenses.
Prerequisite: CS 356 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 457 Computer Networks and the Internet Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Principles of communications, local area networks, communication protocols, TCP/IP, and the Internet.
Prerequisite: (CS 214 with a minimum grade of C or CS 253 with a minimum grade of C) and (CS 370 with a minimum grade of C) and (STAT 301 with a minimum grade of C or STAT 303 with a minimum grade of C or ECE 303 with a minimum grade of C or STAT 307 with a minimum grade of C or ERHS 307 with a minimum grade of C or STAT 311 with a minimum grade of C or STAT 315 with a minimum grade of C).
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 458 Blockchain Principles and Applications Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Presents various aspects of blockchain technology including distributed ledgers and consensus, internal mechanisms, smart contracts and DApps (distributed applications). Focus on Naivecoin, Bitcoin and Ethereum as case studies. Explore various application areas for blockchains including elections, supply chain management and others. Engage hands-on in the design, implementation and evaluation of DApps.
Prerequisite: CS 314 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online. Credit not allowed for both CS 458 and CS 481A3.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 462 Engaging in Virtual Worlds Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: A hands-on introduction to the fundamental concepts and practices required to design, develop, and adapt virtual 3D worlds using mature, state-of-the-art tools. Basics of 3D modeling, scene construction, lighting, rendering, and properties; bringing objects into motion, characters to life, and interactions into the world.
Prerequisite: (CS 214 with a minimum grade of C or CS 253 with a minimum grade of C) and (DSCI 369 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 229 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 369 with a minimum grade of C).
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 464 Principles of Human-Computer Interaction Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: History and trends in human-computer interaction; user-centered design techniques; prototyping; experimental methods for the evaluation of technology.
Prerequisite: CS 214 with a minimum grade of C or CS 253 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 470 Computer Architecture Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Instruction set; hardwired, microprogramming; memory; arithmetic; I/O and buses; performance evaluation; pipelining, RISC.
Prerequisite: CS 370.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 475 Parallel Programming Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Parallel programming techniques for shared-memory and message-passing systems; process synchronization, communication; example languages.
Prerequisite: (CS 250 with a minimum grade of C or CS 270 with a minimum grade of C) and (CS 320 with a minimum grade of C and CT 301 with a minimum grade of C).
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 486 Practicum Credits: Var[1-4] (0-0-0)

Course Description: Supervised work experience in approved computer science setting with periodic consultation of faculty.
Prerequisite: None.
Registration Information: Maximum of 12 credits allowed for any combination of CS 486, CS 495.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Grade Mode: Instructor Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 495 Independent Study Credits: Var[1-18] (0-0-0)

Prerequisite: None.
Grade Mode: Instructor Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 498 Research Credits: Var[1-4] (0-0-0)

Prerequisite: None.
Grade Mode: Instructor Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 501 Introduction to Research in Computer Science Credit: 1 (2-0-0)

Course Description: Develop the skills needed to effectively participate in graduate work (both orally and in writing) and learn how to successfully function in academic discourse communities. Participate in a number of rotations related to current research interests of department faculty, explore advanced research in the field, and develop skills to produce research.
Prerequisite: CS 314.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate.
Registration Information: May be taken twice for credit. Sections may be offered: Online.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Grade Mode: Instructor Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 510 Image Computation Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Image generation theory and implementation, image manipulation/interpretation. Ray tracing, geometric and photometric manipulation, image matching.
Prerequisite: CS 410.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Modes: S/U within Student Option, Trad within Student Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 514 Software Product and Process Evaluation Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Software development process modeling and evaluation; software metrics, testing, verification, validation; experimental methods in software engineering.
Prerequisite: CS 414.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 515 Software Maintenance & Evolution Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Software maintenance fundamentals, software evolution principles, software properties and paradigms, software decay and aging, software change management, software quality, software refactoring, mining software repositories, defect prediction and effort estimation, and software documentation.
Prerequisite: CS 414.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate.
Registration Information: Graduate standing. Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online. Credit not allowed for both CS 515 and CS 581A3.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 517 Software Specification and Design Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Rigorous techniques for modeling, specifying, and analyzing software requirements and designs; reusable software development.
Prerequisite: CS 414.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 518 Distributed Software System Development Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Principles of developing distributed systems; middleware technologies and techniques for building complex distributed component-based systems.
Prerequisite: CS 414.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 520 Analysis of Algorithms Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Asymptotic complexity, algorithm complexity, and problem complexity; the Master Method; parallel algorithms; algorithm design.
Prerequisite: CS 420.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Modes: S/U within Student Option, Trad within Student Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 522 Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Principles of design, specification, modeling, and analysis of cyber-physical systems and software. Topics include model-based design, formal methods for specification and verification, and control theory.
Prerequisite: CS 320 or CS 420.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate.
Registration Information: Graduate standing. Must register for lecture and laboratory. Credit not allowed for both CS 522 and CS 581A4.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 523 Foundations of Computation Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Foundations of modeling and analysis of computational systems; finite-state automata, regular expressions, pushdown automata, context-free languages, Turing machines and decidability, reducibility, and logical theories.
Prerequisite: CS 320 with a minimum grade of C or ECE 312 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 360 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 366 with a minimum grade of C.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online. Credit allowed for only one of the following: CS 422, CS 480A4, CS 523, or CS 580A7.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 525 Bioinformatics Algorithms Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Computational methods for analysis of DNA/protein sequences and other biological data, including deep learning and other machine learning methods.
Prerequisite: (CS 320 with a minimum grade of C and CS 345 with a minimum grade of C) and (STAT 301 with a minimum grade of C or ECE 303 with a minimum grade of C or STAT 303 with a minimum grade of C or STAT 307 with a minimum grade of C or STAT 315 with a minimum grade of C) and (DSCI 369 with a minimum grade of C or MATH 369 with a minimum grade of C).
Restriction: .
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online. Credit not allowed for both CS 425 and CS 525.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 528 Embedded Systems and Machine Learning Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Also Offered As: ECE 528.
Course Description: Machine learning for embedded computing systems; hardware/software optimizations for machine learning; hardware accelerators for deep learning; data reuse and sharing techniques; memory and network design for machine learning acceleration; anomaly detection and adversarial learning; advanced applications of machine learning in embedded applications.
Prerequisite: CS 250 with a minimum grade of C or CS 270 with a minimum grade of C or ECE 251 with a minimum grade of C.
Restriction: Must not be a: Freshman, Sophomore.
Registration Information: Junior standing. Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online. Credit allowed for only one of the following: CS 528, CS 581C1, ECE 528, or ECE 581C1.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 530 Fault-Tolerant Computing Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Achieving high reliability and fault tolerance. Fault modeling, testing, reliability evaluation, redundancy, fault tolerance. (NT-O)
Prerequisite: CS 370.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Modes: S/U within Student Option, Trad within Student Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 533 Database Management Systems Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Theory and implementation of concurrency control, recovery, and query processing as it applies to centralized and distributed systems.
Prerequisite: CS 430.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 535 Big Data Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Topics in scalable computing models, optimization algorithms, large-scale non-traditional data storage frameworks including graph, key-value, and column-family storage systems; data stream analysis; scalable prediction models and in-memory storage systems.
Prerequisite: CS 435 with a minimum grade of B.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 540 Artificial Intelligence Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Knowledge representation and reasoning, search, planning, evolutionary computation, data mining, information retrieval, intelligent Web, agent systems.
Prerequisite: CS 440.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 542 Natural Language Processing Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: A survey of fundamental concepts, mathematical foundations, and algorithms in natural language processing and computational linguistics. Computational analysis of language data on all levels using methods that include finite state machines; n-gram language models; Bayesian, generative, and conditional models; hidden Markov models; statistical parsing; distributional semantics; and neural networks.
Prerequisite: CS 345 with a minimum grade of C.
Restriction: Must not be a: Freshman, Sophomore.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 545 Machine Learning Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Computational methods that allow computers to learn; neural networks, decision trees, genetic algorithms, bagging and boosting.
Prerequisite: CS 440.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 553 Algorithmic Language Compilers Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Compiler construction; lexical scanner generators, parser generators, dataflow analysis, optimization.
Prerequisite: CS 453.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 555 Distributed Systems Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Principles, paradigms, protocols and algorithms underlying modern distributed systems.
Prerequisite: CS 455.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Computer Science graduate students only. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 556 Computer Security Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Topics in computer security: concepts, threats, risks, access control models, trusted systems, cryptography, authentication.
Prerequisite: CS 356 or CS 455.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 557 Advanced Networking Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Core internet protocols, including transport, routing, and security protocols. Protocol design principles. Network measurements and assessment.
Prerequisite: CS 457.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 559 Quantitative Security Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Quantitative assessment of security risks in computing systems. Approaches involve data-based analysis of vulnerabilities, their exploitation, the impact of security breaches and the economy of risk-control measures.
Prerequisite: (CS 356 with a minimum grade of B) and (STAT 301 with a minimum grade of B or STAT 315 with a minimum grade of B).
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 560 Foundations of Fine-Grain Parallelism Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Also Offered As: ECE 560.
Course Description: Programming novel architectures; performance tuning; automatic parallelization; program transformation; polyhedral model; equational programming.
Prerequisite: CS 475.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Credit not allowed for both CS 560 and ECE 560. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 561 Hardware/Software Design of Embedded Systems Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Also Offered As: ECE 561.
Course Description: Embedded systems design including system level modeling, design space exploration, hardware-software partitioning, high level synthesis.
Prerequisite: CS 250 with a minimum grade of C or CS 270 with a minimum grade of C or CS 470 or ECE 251 with a minimum grade of C or ECE 452.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Credit not allowed for both CS 561 and ECE 561. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Spring (odd years).
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 567 3D User Interfaces Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Introduction to the theory of interaction design for 3D user interfaces (3DUI). Interaction (selection, manipulation, travel, and wayfinding), virtual environments, and application to 3DUI. Relevance of 3DUI principles to traditional displays, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality.
Prerequisite: None.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 570 Advanced Computer Architecture Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Pipelined CPU design. Superscalar architectures and instruction-level parallelism. Cache and memory hierarchy design. Storage systems.
Prerequisite: CS 470.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Modes: S/U within Student Option, Trad within Student Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 575 Parallel Processing Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Parallel and distributed computing models, algorithms, mapping and performance evaluations, parallel computing tools and applications.
Prerequisite: CS 475.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Modes: S/U within Student Option, Trad within Student Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 612 Topics in Computer Graphics Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Computer graphics research topics.
Prerequisite: CS 510.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 614A Advanced Topics in Software Engineering: Specification and Design Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description:
Prerequisite: CS 514 or CS 517 or CS 518.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 614B Advanced Topics in Software Engineering: Testing and Verification Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

CS 614C Advanced Topics in Software Engineering: Software Environments and Tools Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

CS 614D Advanced Topics in Software Engineering: Software Measurement, Analysis, & Evaluation Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

CS 614E Advanced Topics in Software Engineering: Application Domains Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

CS 620 Advanced Topics in Algorithms Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Designing and analyzing algorithms and data structures; illustrations from a variety of problem domains.
Prerequisite: CS 520.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Term Offered: Fall (odd years).
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 635 Advanced Fault-Tolerant Computing Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Advanced topics and recent developments in high reliability and fault-tolerant systems.
Prerequisite: CS 530.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 640 Advanced Artificial Intelligence I Credits: 2 (2-0-0)

Course Description: Research topics in artificial intelligence: genetic algorithms, neural networks, connectionist models; machine learning; planning, automated reasoning.
Prerequisite: CS 540.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 641 Advanced Artificial Intelligence II Credits: 2 (2-0-0)

Course Description: Advanced research topics in artificial intelligence.
Prerequisite: CS 640.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 645 Advanced Machine Learning: Neural Networks Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Study of machine learning research literature and implementations of algorithms for neural networks and reinforcement learning.
Prerequisite: CS 545 with a minimum grade of C.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 646 Machine Learning in Bioinformatics Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Recent research on the applications of machine learning in bioinformatics.
Prerequisite: CS 545 or STAT 560.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 653 Topics in Programming Language Implementation Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Data dependence analysis; code generation.
Prerequisite: CS 553.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 655 Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Issues related to robustness, replication, consistency, scalability, isolation and privacy in large-scale distributed systems.
Prerequisite: CS 555.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 656A Advanced Topics in Computer Security: Formal Models of Computer Security Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Advanced research topics in computer security.
Prerequisite: CS 556.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 656B Advanced Topics in Computer Security: Models for Privacy and Application Security Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

CS 656C Advanced Topics in Computer Security: Network Security Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

CS 657 Advanced Topics in Computer Networking Credits: 4 (3-2-0)

Course Description: Advanced research topics in computer networks.
Prerequisite: CS 557.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Term Offered: Fall.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 658 Internet Engineering Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Also Offered As: ECE 658.
Course Description: Link technologies, multiple access, hardware and software for internetworks routing, switching flow control, multicast, performance, and applications.
Prerequisite: CS 457 or ECE 456.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Registration Information: Must register for lecture and laboratory. Sections may be offered: Online. Credit not allowed for both ECE 658 and CS 658.
Term Offered: Fall (even years).
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 670B Topics in Architecture/Systems: Performance Evaluation and Modeling Credits: Var[1-4] (0-0-0)

Also Offered As: ECE 670B.
Course Description:
Prerequisite: CS 570 or ECE 554.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Registration Information: Credit not allowed for both CS 670B and ECE 670B.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 670C Topics in Architecture/Systems: Distributed Systems Credits: Var[1-4] (0-0-0)

Also Offered As: ECE 670C.
Course Description:
Prerequisite: CS 570 or ECE 554.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Registration Information: Credit not allowed for both CS 670C and ECE 670C.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 670D Topics in Architecture/Systems: Architecture of Advanced Systems Credits: Var[1-4] (0-0-0)

Also Offered As: ECE 670D.
Course Description:
Prerequisite: CS 570 or ECE 554.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Registration Information: Credit not allowed for both CS 670D and ECE 670D.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 675 Advanced Parallel Computing Credits: 4 (3-3-0)

Course Description: Parallel computing, computational models, parallel languages and algorithms, distributed simulation, Internet and mobile computing, parallel search.
Prerequisite: None.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Registration Information: Written consent of instructor. Must register for lecture and laboratory.
Term Offered: Spring.
Grade Mode: Traditional.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 692 Seminar Credits: Var[1-18] (0-0-0)

Course Description:
Prerequisite: None.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Instructor Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 695 Independent Study Credits: Var[1-18] (0-0-0)

Course Description:
Prerequisite: None.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
Grade Mode: Instructor Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 696 Group Study Credits: Var[1-18] (0-0-0)

CS 699 Thesis Credits: Var[1-18] (0-0-0)

CS 787 Internship Credit: 1 (0-3-0)

Course Description: Summer internship experience in computer science.
Prerequisite: None.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Term Offered: Summer.
Grade Mode: Instructor Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 793 Research Seminar in Computer Science Credits: 4 (0-0-4)

Course Description: Research methods in specific areas of computer science.
Prerequisite: None.
Restriction: Must be a: Graduate, Professional.
Registration Information: Graduate standing in computer science.
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring.
Grade Mode: Instructor Option.
Special Course Fee: No.

CS 799 Dissertation Credits: Var[1-18] (0-0-0)