Focus Area Courses

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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

—Archilochus of Paros (c. 680 - 645 BC)

Our graduate programs prepare you to know many things and—at least—one big thing. You'll choose course sequences that give you a generalist's broad knowledge of computational topics and a specialist's expertise in your chosen field.

The tables below show which courses fullfill CSE PhD and MS focus area requirements.

PhD Program MS Program

CSE PhD Program

Table: CSE PhD Program Focus Area Coverage by Course. Icons made by Smashicons from www.flaticon.com
Course	Title	Artificial Intelligence (AI)	Hardware and Networked Systems (HW)	Software and Information Systems (SIS)	Theory and Algorithms (TA)
CSE 501	Introduction to Graduate Study in Computer Science I
CSE 503	Computer Science for Non Majors
CSE 504	Computer Science for Non-Majors II
CSE 505	Fundamentals of Programming Languages
CSE 508	Programming with Python
CSE 510	Special Topics
CSE 512	Operating Systems Internals
CSE 518	Software Security
CSE 520	Embedded Architectures
CSE 521	Operating Systems
CSE 522	Object Oriented Analysis, Design and Implementation
CSE 524	Realtime & Embedded Sys
CSE 526	Blockchain Application Development
CSE 528	Introduction to Digital Image Processing
CSE 529	Algorithms for Modern Computing Systems
CSE 531	Analysis of Algorithms I
CSE 534	Multimedia Systems
CSE 535	Information Retrieval
CSE 536	Computational Biology
CSE 540	Machine Learning and Society for majors
CSE 542	Software Engineering Concepts
CSE 544	Machine Learning and Society for Nonmajors
CSE 545	Coding Theory
CSE 546	Reinforcement Learning
CSE 547	High Performance Computing 1
CSE 548	High Perform Computing 2
CSE 555	Introduction to Pattern Recognition
CSE 560	Data Models and Query Languages
CSE 561	Design and Performance Analysis of Computer Systems
CSE 562	Database Systems
CSE 563	Knowledge Representation
CSE 565	Computer Security
CSE 566	Wireless Networks Security
CSE 567	Computational Linguistics
CSE 568	Robotics Algorithms
CSE 570	Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Processing
CSE 573	Introduction to Computer Vision and Image Processing
CSE 574	Introduction to Machine Learning
CSE 577	Processing of Strings and Sequences
CSE 578	Computational Investment
CSE 580	Computer Graphics
CSE 586	Distributed Systems
CSE 587	Data Intensive Computing
CSE 589	Modern Network Concepts
CSE 590	Computer Architecture
CSE 591	System On Chip
CSE 593	Introduction to VLSI Electronics
CSE 596	Introduction to the Theory of Computation
CSE 598	Internship
CSE 601	Data Mining and Bioinformatics
CSE 603	Parallel and Distributed Processing
CSE 605	Advanced Concepts in Programming Languages
CSE 610	Special Topics
CSE 611	MS Project Development
CSE 616	Multiagent Systems
CSE 620	Adv Network Concepts
CSE 622	Advanced Computer Systems
CSE 630	Advanced Wireless Networking Concepts
CSE 632	Analysis of Algorithms II
CSE 633	Parallel Algorithms
CSE 635	Natural Language Processing and Text Mining
CSE 640	Graph Mining and Management
CSE 646	Wireless Ntwkg & Mob Comp
CSE 660	Differential Privacy
CSE 662	Languages and Runtimes for Big Data
CSE 664	Applied Cryptography and Computer Security
CSE 666	Biometrics Image Analysis
CSE 667	Advanced Topics in Computational Linguistics
CSE 668	Advanced Robotics
CSE 672	Bayesian Vision
CSE 673	Computational Vision
CSE 674	Advanced Machine Learning
CSE 675	Stochastic Simulation and Inference
CSE 676	Deep Learning
CSE 680	Computational Geometry
CSE 691	Advanced VLSI Design
CSE 696	Computational Complexity