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 506	Emerging Comp Architecture
CSE 507	Soa and Web Services
CSE 508	Programming with Python
CSE 509	Advanced Blockchain Concepts
CSE 510	Special Topics
CSE 512	Oper Sys Internals
CSE 515	Parallel Computing
CSE 516	E-Commerce Technology
CSE 517	Introduction to the R Programming Language
CSE 520	Embedded Architectures
CSE 521	Operating Systems
CSE 522	Object Oriented Analysis, Design and Implementation
CSE 523	Quality Software Design
CSE 524	Realtime & Embedded Sys
CSE 525	Software Testing
CSE 526	Image Processing
CSE 526	Blockchain Application Development
CSE 527	Embedded Processors
CSE 528	Introduction to Digital Image Processing
CSE 529	Algorithms for Modern Computing Systems
CSE 530	Computer Communications
CSE 531	Analysis of Algorithms I
CSE 532	Neural Networks
CSE 533	Advanced Neural Networks
CSE 534	Multimedia Systems
CSE 535	Information Retrieval
CSE 536	Computational Biology
CSE 537	Intro Numeric Analysis 1
CSE 538	Intro Numeric Analysis 2
CSE 539	Soft Eng Tools Bldg Blks
CSE 540	Machine Learning and Society
CSE 541	Programing Multi/Core Arch
CSE 542	Software Engineering Concepts
CSE 543	Language Processors Intro
CSE 545	Coding Theory
CSE 546	Reinforcement Learning
CSE 547	High Performance Computing 1
CSE 548	High Perform Computing 2
CSE 549	Software Verification
CSE 549	Software Verification
CSE 551	Program Development
CSE 552	VLSI Testing
CSE 553	Software Dev Proj Mgmt
CSE 555	Introduction to Pattern Recognition
CSE 556	Visualization
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 564	Game Theory & Comp Net
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 571	Intelligent Control Syst
CSE 572	Knowledge-Based A.I.
CSE 573	Introduction to Computer Vision and Image Processing
CSE 574	Introduction to Machine Learning
CSE 575	Intro to Cognitive Sci
CSE 576	Fault Diagnosis
CSE 577	Processing of Strings and Sequences
CSE 578	Computational Investment I
CSE 580	Computer Graphics
CSE 581	Computational Geometry
CSE 584	Phil of Comp Sci
CSE 586	Distributed Systems
CSE 587	Data Intensive Computing
CSE 588	Pat Recog & Scene Anal
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 600	Project Guidance
CSE 601	Data Mining and Bioinformatics
CSE 603	Parallel and Distributed Processing
CSE 604	Fault Tolerant Computing
CSE 605	Advanced Concepts in Programming Languages
CSE 606	Parallel Architecture
CSE 610	Special Topics
CSE 611	MS Project Development
CSE 616	Multiagent Systems
CSE 620	Adv Network Concepts
CSE 622	Advanced Computer Systems
CSE 626	Data Mining
CSE 630	Advanced Wireless Networking Concepts
CSE 632	Analysis of Algorithms II
CSE 633	Parallel Algorithms
CSE 634	Multimedia Systems
CSE 635	Natural Language Processing and Text Mining
CSE 636	Data Integration
CSE 640	Graph Mining and Management
CSE 641	Algorithms for VLSI
CSE 642	Tech of Artificial Intell
CSE 643	Parallel Compilers
CSE 644	Language Processors
CSE 646	Wireless Ntwkg & Mob Comp
CSE 651	Emerging App in Embed Sys
CSE 655	Pattern Recognition
CSE 660	Differential Privacy
CSE 661	Document Anal and Recog
CSE 662	Languages and Runtimes for Big Data
CSE 663	Adv Knowledge Rep
CSE 664	Applied Cryptography and Computer Security
CSE 665	Adv Computer Graphics
CSE 666	Biometrics Image Analysis
CSE 667	Advanced Topics in Computational Linguistics
CSE 668	Advanced Robotics
CSE 669	Lang Dia Comp Arch
CSE 670	Computer Engineering 2
CSE 671	Sec Wireless Sensr Ntwrks
CSE 672	Bayesian Vision
CSE 673	Computational Vision
CSE 674	Advanced Machine Learning
CSE 675	Stochastic Simulation and Inference
CSE 676	Deep Learning
CSE 678	Face and Gesture Recognition
CSE 680	Computational Geometry
CSE 681	Formal Languages 1
CSE 691	Advanced VLSI Design
CSE 694	Topics in Algorithms
CSE 695	Theory of Computation
CSE 696	Computational Complexity
CSE 697	Recursive Function Theo 1
CSE 698	Recursive Function Theo 2
CSE 699	Supervised Teaching