Courses

To complete a Master of Applied Computer Science degree, you must complete 30 credit hours of coursework, consisting of:

• Internship stream: 9 hours of required courses, 18 hours of elective courses and 3 hours of internship work term;
• Entrepreneurship stream: 9 hours of required courses, 6 hours of stream-specific required courses, 12 hours of elective courses and 3 hours of entrepreneurship work term; or,
• Project stream: 9 hours of required courses, 15 hours of elective courses and 6 hours of research project.

Required Courses

Effective September 2020, students in every stream are required to take the following three courses:

• CSCI 5100: Communicating Computer Science Ideas
  Credit hours: 3
• CSCI 5308: Advanced topics in Software Development
  Credit hours: 3
• CSCI 5408: Data Management, Warehousing, & Analytics
  Credit hours: 3

Elective Courses

Students in every stream are required to take four 5000 level CSCI courses from the following list of electives:

• CSCI 5001: Privacy & IT
  Credit hours: 3
• CSCI 5193: Technology Innovation
  Credit hours: 3
• CSCI 5306: Software Comprehension
  Credit hours: 3
• CSCI 5409: Advanced Topics in Cloud Computing
  Credit hours: 3
• CSCI 5410: Serverless Data Processing 
  Credit hours: 3
• CSCI 5411: Advanced Cloud Architecting
  Credit hours: 3
• CSCI 5601: Designing for User Experience
  Credit hours: 3
• CSCI 5708: Mobile Computing 
  Credit hours: 3
• CSCI 5709: Advanced Topics in Web Development
  Credit hours: 3
• CSCI 5901.03: Special Graduate Topics in Applied Computer Science
  Credit hours: 3
• CSCI 5902.03: Special Graduate Topics in Applied Computer Science
  Credit hours: 3

Additional stream-specific course requirements