Complete all courses and requirements listed below unless otherwise indicated.

Align Bridge Coursework 

Students are required to take all bridge courses unless otherwise determined by the program.

A grade of B or higher is required in each course.

Fundamentals
CS 5001
and CS 5003
Intensive Foundations of Computer Science
and Recitation for CS 5001
4
Discrete Structures
CS 5002Discrete Structures4
Object-Oriented Design
CS 5004
and CS 5005
Object-Oriented Design
and Recitation for CS 5004
4
Additional ALIGN courses
CS 5008
and CS 5009
Data Structures, Algorithms, and Their Applications within Computer Systems
and Recitation for CS 5008
4

Core Requirement

Algorithms
CS 5800Algorithms4

Breadth Areas

Complete 12 semester hours from two of the following breadth areas:
Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
Game Artificial Intelligence
Database Management Systems
Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Information Retrieval
Data Mining Techniques
Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing
Advanced Machine Learning
Systems and Software
Principles of Programming Language
Foundations of Software Engineering
Mobile Application Development
Computer Systems
Web Development
Fundamentals of Computer Networking
Building Game Engines
Compilers
Advanced Software Development
Fundamentals of Cloud Computing
Theory and Security
Privacy, Security, and Usability
Complexity Theory
Software Vulnerabilities and Security
Network Security

Electives

Complete 12 semester hours from the following:12
Mixed Reality
Thesis
Master’s Project
Readings
Cybersecurity: Technologies, Threats, and Defenses
Cybersecurity Principles and Practices
Computer System Security
Information System Forensics
Software Security Practices
Essentials of Data Science
Unsupervised Machine Learning and Data Mining

Program Credit/GPA Requirements

36–44 total semester hours required
Minimum 3.000 GPA required