Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular semester. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the MyBU Student Portal for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

• GRS CS 660: Graduate Introduction to Database Systems
  Graduate introduction to database management systems. Examines entity-relationship, relational, and object-oriented data models; commercial query languages: SQL, relational algebra, relational calculus, and QBE; file organization, indexing and hashing, query optimization, transaction processing, concurrency control and recovery, integrity, and security.
• GRS CS 680: Graduate Introduction to Computer Graphics
  Introduction to computer graphics algorithms, programming methods, and applications. Focus on fundamentals of two- and three-dimensional raster graphics: scan-conversion, clipping, geometric transformations, and camera modeling. Introduces concepts in computational geometry, computer-human interfaces, animation, and visual realism. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
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  • Digital/Multimedia Expression
• GRS CS 697: Computer Science Graduate Initiation
  Guidance for graduate students embarking on a research career in computer science. Topics include: research resources and methodologies, the research project development process, refereeing and reviewing, written and oral presentations, the dissertation, writing effective research proposals, ethics, and career planning. (Required of first-year doctoral candidates; open to interested CS Master's students.)
• GRS CS 698: CS Teaching Fellow Training
  Covers topics needed to be successful computer science teaching fellow. These include goals, content, and methods of instruction in computer science, and general teaching/learning issues. Required once of all teaching fellows.
• GRS CS 910: Directed Study: Systems
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in systems.
• GRS CS 911: Directed Study: Systems
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in systems.
• GRS CS 920: Directed Study: Programming Languages
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in programming languages.
• GRS CS 921: Directed Study: Programming Languages
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in programming languages.
• GRS CS 930: Directed Study: Algorithmic Information Theory
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in algorithmic information theory.
• GRS CS 931: Directed Study: Algorithmic Information Theory
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in algorithmic information theory.
• GRS CS 932: Directed Study: Algorithms
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in algorithms.
• GRS CS 933: Directed Study: Algorithms
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in algorithms.
• GRS CS 935: Directed Study: Complexity
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in complexity.
• GRS CS 936: Directed Study: Complexity
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in complexity.
• GRS CS 937: Directed Study: Cryptography
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in cryptography.
• GRS CS 940: Directed Study: Artificial Intelligence
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in artificial intelligence.
• GRS CS 941: Directed Study: Artificial Intelligence
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in artificial intelligence.
• GRS CS 950: Directed Study: Computational Architecture
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in computational architecture.
• GRS CS 951: Drs-Comp Arch
  
• GRS CS 952: Directed Study: Operating Systems
  Graduate-level directed study in a topic in operating systems.

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