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2012-2013 General Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses of Instruction

The following is a listing of all courses of instruction offered by departments at LSU. This listing was up-to-date and as correct as possible at the time of publication of this catalog.

Since this catalog was prepared well in advance of its effective date, some courses may have been added, others may have been dropped, and/or changes in content may have been made.

The following are important notes concerning courses:

  • General education courses are designated by stars (★) placed before the course numbers.
  • Class minima are specified in PS-37, Minimum Class Size:
  ≪ Below 4000 15  
  ≪ Between 4000-4999 10  
  ≪ 5000 and above 5  
  • No credit is given for a course unless the student has been duly registered in that course.
  • The amount of credit given for the satisfactory completion of a course is based on the number of lectures each week for one semester:
  ≪ one credit represents at least one hour of lecture a week for one semester;  
  ≪ two hours of laboratory (in some cases, three) are the equivalent of one hour of lecture.  
  • When a course consists entirely or partly of laboratory, that fact is stated in the description. When not otherwise specified, the course consists entirely of lectures.
  • The number of credit hours that a course carries per semester is listed in parentheses following the course title. If the number listed is variable, i.e., (2-4), the amount of credit that the student is to receive must be stated at the time of registration.
  • Indication of variable credit does not mean that a course may be repeated for credit. If a course can be repeated for credit, that information is included in the course description.
  • Listing of a course does not necessarily mean that it will be offered every year.
  • The phrases also offered as… , see…, or same as…, which appear in some course descriptions, refer to honors courses or to cross-listed courses that are available through more than one department. In each of these instances, only one of the courses may be taken for credit.

Course Numbering System

An explanation of the first digit of the four-digit course numbering system follows. The meaning of the second, third, and fourth digits varies by department. See “Year Classification of Students ” in the “Undergraduate Degree Requirements and Regulations” section of this catalog for an explanation of the criteria for classification as a freshman, sophomore, etc.

1000-1999 • For undergraduate students, primarily freshmen; for undergraduate credit only. Ordinarily open to all students; in some instances upper-division students may not take these courses for degree credit.

2000-2999 • For undergraduate students, sophomore level or above; for undergraduate credit only.

3000-3999 • For advanced undergraduate students, junior- and senior-level; for undergraduate credit only. These courses constitute the advanced portion of an undergraduate program leading to the bachelor’s degree. A student with fewer than 60 hours of credit may enroll in 3000 level courses if they meet the enrollment requirements of the college whose departments offer the courses.

4000-4999 • For advanced undergraduate students (who have completed a minimum of 60 semester hours) and students in graduate and professional schools and colleges; for undergraduate or graduate credit. Undergraduates with 30 or more semester hours who are making timely progress toward a degree may be admitted to 4000 level courses. Such students must have a 3.50 GPA or higher, the appropriate prerequisites, consent of the instructor, and permission of the dean of the student’s undergraduate college.

5000-5999 • For students in post-baccalaureate professional programs (architecture, law, and veterinary medicine). A student in the Graduate School may take these courses for credit with approval of the student’s major department.

6000-6999 • Exclusively for teachers at the elementary, secondary, and junior college levels.

7000-7999 • For students in the Graduate School; for graduate credit only except as follows. Undergraduates with 75 or more semester hours who are making timely progress toward a degree may be admitted to 7000 level courses. Such students must have a 3.50 or higher GPA, the appropriate prerequisites, consent of the instructor, and permission of the dean of the student’s undergraduate college. Credit so earned will apply only toward undergraduate degree requirements, except for students enrolled in an accelerated master’s degree program.

8000-8999 • Research courses exclusively for graduate students, primarily for students working toward the master’s degree; for graduate credit only. The number 8000 designates thesis research.

9000-9999 • Research courses exclusively for graduate students, primarily for advanced graduate students working toward the doctoral degree; for graduate credit only. The number 9000 designates dissertation research.
 

Computer Science
  

  • CSC 1100 Computers in Society (3)

    Prereq.: credit in MATH 1021  or registration in MATH 1023 . Credit will not be given for this course and ISDS 1100  or ISDS 1101  or ISDS 1102  or LIS 2001  or EXST 2000 . 2 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Introduction to computers, their applications and impact on people and social institutions; the Internet, e-mail, news groups, ftp, telnet, World Wide Web, multimedia, word processing, spreadsheets, databases.
  

  • CSC 1200 Ethics in Computing (1)

    Prereq.: credit or registration in CSC 1253  or CSC 1350 ; credit or registration in ENGL 1001 , ENGL 1005  or HNRS 2000 . For majors only. Introduction to ethics theory, ethical decision-making as it relates to the computing professional, licensing, intellectual property, conflicts of interest, freedom of information and privacy, security.
  

  • CSC 1240 Statistics and Graphics with MATLAB (3)

    This is a General Education course. Prereq.: MATH 1021  or placement in MATH 1022 , MATH 1023 , MATH 1431 , MATH 1550  or MATH 1551 . Credit will not be given for both this course and CSC 1248  or CSC 2262  or CSC 2533  or OCS 2011 . Not for degree credit for computer science majors. 2 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Introduction to MATLAB programming with applications in statistics and graphics.
  
  
  

  • CSC 1253 Computer Science I with C++ (3)

    Prereq.: credit or registration in MATH 1550  or credit in MATH 1431 . Credit will not be given for both this course and CSC 1248  or CSC 1250  or CSC 1350  or ISDS 3107 . Fundamentals of algorithm development, program design and structured programming using an object-oriented language.
  

  • CSC 1254 Computer Science II with C++ (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 1253 ; credit or registration in MATH 1550 . Credit will not be given for both this course and CSC 1351 . Develops solutions to problems using an object-oriented approach and emphasizes the concepts of recursion; dynamic memory; data structures (lists, stacks, queues, trees); exception handling.
  

  • CSC 1350 Computer Science I for Majors (3)

    Prereq.: credit or registration in MATH 1550 . Credit will not be given for both this course and CSC 1248  or CSC 1250  or CSC 1253  or ISDS 3107 . Fundamentals of algorithm development, program design and structured programming using an object-oriented language.
  

  • CSC 1351 Computer Science II for Majors (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 1350 ; credit or registration in MATH 1550 . Credit will not be given for both this course and CSC 1254 . Develops solutions to problems using an object-oriented approach and emphasizes the concepts of recursion; dynamic memory; data structures (lists, stacks, queues, trees); exception handling.
  

  • CSC 1970 Introduction to the UNIX Operating System (2)

    1 hr. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. laboratory projects are assigned. Features of the UNIX Operating system kernel, shell commands and scripts, text processing, electronic mail and the Internet.
  

  • CSC 2252 Assembly Language Programming (3)

    Prereq.: credit or registration in CSC 1254  or CSC 1351  or equivalent background. Fundamentals of machine function; basic concepts of programming at the machine level; assembly language; machine representation of information, machine language, addressing techniques, program linkage, macroprogramming and assembler construction.
  

  • CSC 2259 Discrete Structures (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 1254  or CSC 1351 ; credit or registration in MATH 1552 . Set algebra including mappings and relations; algebraic structures including semigroups and groups; elements of the theory of directed and undirected graphs; Boolean algebra and propositional logic; these structures applied to various areas of computer science.
  

  • CSC 2262 Numerical Methods (3)

    Prereq.: MATH 1552  and CSC 1254  or CSC 1351 . Credit will be given for only one of the following: CSC 1240 , 2262, CSC 2533  or IE 2060 . Computer- oriented methods for solving numerical problems in science and engineering; numerical solutions to systems of simultaneous linear equations, nonlinear algebraic equations (root solving), differentiation and integration, ordinary differential equations, interpolation and curve fitting.
  

  • CSC 2270 COBOL Programming and Business Data Processing Systems (3)

    Prereq.: credit in a course in computing. Primarily for students in computer science and related disciplines. COBOL programming; its use in business data processing systems.
  

  • CSC 2280 Computer Organization (4)

    Prereq.: CSC 2252 . Credit will not be given for both this course and CSC 3501 . 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Basic digital circuits; Boolean algebra and combinational logic, data representation and transfer and digital arithmetic; digital storage and accessing, control functions, input-output facilities, system organization and reliability; description and simulation techniques; features needed for multiprogramming, multi-processing and real-time systems; other advanced topics and alternate organizations.
  

  • CSC 2533 Introduction to Engineering Computation (3)

    Also offered as ME 2533 . Prereq.: MATH 1550 . Credit will not be given for both this course and CSC 1240  or CSC 2262  or OCS 2011 . 2 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Problem solving techniques and structured programming tools for engineering synthesis and analysis; application of symbolic solvers and technical computing toolkits.
  

  • CSC 2700 Special Topics in Computer Science (1-3)

    Prereq.: CSC 1254  or CSC 1351  or permission of department. May be taken for a max. of 6 hrs. of credit when topics vary. Total credit earned in CSC 2700 and CSC 4700  should not exceed 9 hrs. Specialized areas of current interest in computer science.
  

  • CSC 3102 Advanced Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 1254  or CSC 1351  and credit or concurrent enrollment in CSC 2259  or EE 2720 . Description and utilization of formal ADT representations, especially those on lists, sets and graphs; time and space analysis of recursive and nonrecursive algorithms, including graph and sorting algorithms; algorithm design techniques.
  

  • CSC 3380 Object Oriented Design (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 1254  or CSC 1351 . Advanced object oriented software development; emphasis on the use of the unified modeling language as a design tool.
  

  • CSC 3501 Computer Organization and Design (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 2259 . Credit will not be given for both this course and CSC 2280  or EE 3750  or EE 3755 . Computer arithmetic, design of high-speed adders and multipliers, CPU concepts, instruction fetching and decoding, hardwired control, microprogramming control, main memory, I/O organization, assembly language programming techniques, CPU instruction sets and addressing modes.
  

  • CSC 3991 HONORS: Undergraduate Research in Computer Science (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 3102 ; consent of department; admittance to Upper Division Honors Program. Individual research on problems in computer science.
  

  • CSC 3992 HONORS: Undergraduate Thesis in Computer Science (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 3991 ; consent of department; admittance to Upper Division Honors Program. Writing and formal defense of a research thesis in computer science. Defense committee of three faculty members must be approved by department.
  

  • CSC 3999 Independent Undergraduate Research (1-3)

    Prereq.: consent of department chair. May be taken for a max. of 4 hrs. of credit. Individual readings, conferences and program development in computer science.
  

  • CSC 4101 Programming Languages (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 3102 . Principles of programming language design; specification of syntax and semantics; underlying implementation of block structured languages; dynamic memory allocation for strings, lists and arrays; imperative versus applicative programming; logic programming; modern programming languages.
  

  • CSC 4103 Operating Systems (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 3102 . Design techniques, process management, processor scheduling; deadlocks, memory management, secondary memory management, file management; I/O systems, Unix systems.
  

  • CSC 4243 Interface Design and Technology (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 1253  or CSC 1350  or equivalent programming background. Human-computer interaction provides the bridges across which humans engage with computation. An overview and experience with the design of such interfaces. Programming and design projects employing both traditional graphical interfaces; handheld graphical interfaces; and tangible and embedded interfaces. All programming in Java languages.
  

  • CSC 4263 Video Game Design (3)

    Prereq.: ART 2050  or CSC 3102  or MUS 2732  or permission of instructor. The essentials of video game design and implementation, including planning, graphics, sound, programming and testing. Focus is on a semester-long, small-team, interdisciplinary project to develop and present a complete full-featured game.
  

  • CSC 4304 Systems Programming (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4103 . Batch process systems programs, their components, operating characteristics, user services and limitations; implementation techniques for parallel processing of input-output and interrupt handling; overall structure of multiprogramming systems on multiprocessor hardware configurations; ad-dressing techniques, core management, file system design and management, system accounting and other user-related services; traffic control, interprocess communication, design of system modules and interfaces; system updating, documentation and operation.
  

  • CSC 4330 Software Systems Development (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 3102 , CSC 3380 . Software requirements analysis; design representation, programming methodologies; verification, validation, maintenance and software planning.
  

  • CSC 4351 Compiler Construction (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4101  or equivalent. Program language structures, translation, loading, execution and storage allocation; compilation of simple expressions and statements; organization of compiler including compile-time and run-time symbol tables, lexical scan, syntax scan, object code generation, error diagnostics, object code optimization techniques and overall design; use of compiler writing languages and bootstrapping.
  

  • CSC 4356 Interactive Computer Graphics (3)

    See ME 4573 .
  

  • CSC 4357 Applied Interactive Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (3)

    See ME 4583 .
  

  • CSC 4362 Advanced Numerical Methods (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 2262  or CSC 2533  or equivalent. Advanced treatment of numerical computation in practice; methodology for enhancing the effectiveness, accuracy and efficiency of traditional numerical techniques; emphasis on extrapolation.
  

  • CSC 4370 Software Modeling Techniques (3)

    Prereq.:  CSC 4330 . Examination of modern modeling techniques for complex/high quality software including static/dynamic software models and project management models.
  

  • CSC 4402 Introduction to Database Management Systems (3)

    Prereq.:  . Network, hierarchical, relational and entity-relationship models; data definition, manipulation languages and conversion among these models; relational database design theory, efficient query evaluation, elementary query optimization techniques.
  

  • CSC 4444 Artificial Intelligence (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 3102 . Theorem proving and inferencing techniques, production systems, knowledge representation, approximate reasoning, nonmonotonic reasoning, natural language understanding, scene analysis, planning, game playing and learning.
  

  • CSC 4446 Fuzzy Sets and Applications (3)

    Prereq.: permission of instructor. Basic concepts of fuzzy sets, fuzzy operations, fuzzy logic and fuzzy rule-based systems; applications to engineering and decision-making; emphasis on systematic methodology to construct fuzzy applications; software and simulations tools in solving real-world problems using fuzzy-set techniques.
  

  • CSC 4501 Computer Networks (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 3102 . Introduction to local, metropolitan and wide area networks using the standard OSI reference model as a framework; introduction to the Internet protocol suite and network tools and programming; discussion of various networking technologies.
  

  • CSC 4512 Optimization: Modeling Approaches, Algorithms and Applications (3)

    Prereq.: MATH 2085  or MATH 2090  or permission of instructor. Optimization as a modeling tool with emphasis on modeling approaches, fundamental algorithms and applications in many diverse domains.
  

  • CSC 4601 Computer and Network Security (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 3102 . Information security’s role, threats, elements of cryptography; protocols, architectures and technologies for secure systems and services.
  

  • CSC 4602 Fundamental Computer Science for Teachers (3)

    Also offered as ELRC 4512 . Prereq.: ELRC 4507  (or prior programming experience) and credit in an education methods course numbered 3000 or above. Advanced programming techniques; emphasis on structured programming, software and hardware organization, data structures, graphics and other topics to prepare students to teach computer science in secondary schools.
  

  • CSC 4700 Special Topics in Computer Science (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 3102  or permission of department. May be taken for a max. of 9 cr. hrs. when topics vary. Total hrs. earned in CSC 2700  and 4700 should not exceed 9 hrs. Specialized areas of current interest in computer science.
  

  • CSC 4890 Introduction to Theory of Computation (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 2259 . Introduction to finite automata, regular expres-sions and languages; push-down automata and context-free languages; selected advanced language theoretical topics; emphasis on technique.
  

  • CSC 4999 Advanced Independent Undergraduate Research (1-3)

    Prereq.: consent of department chair. May be taken for a max. of 4 hrs. of credit. Individual readings, conferences and program development in computer science.
  

  • CSC 6100 Advanced Elements of Computer Science for Teachers (3)

    Prereq.: computer science programming course or knowledge of a programming language required. Advanced programming techniques using a high-level, structured language; data structures and computer systems software.
  

  • CSC 7080 Computer Architecture (3)

    Background in electronics not required. Functional architecture of modern digital computer systems; detailed description of instruction set implementation with monoprocessor and multiprocessor structures; design and analysis of instruction sets and control structures.
  

  • CSC 7101 Programming Language Structures (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4101 . Advanced study of data specification, storage management and control in programming languages; includes coverage of formal specification languages; languages for concurrent processing; languages that support program verification techniques; and in-depth study of applicative languages.
  

  • CSC 7103 Advanced Operating Systems (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4103 . Concurrent programming: shared memory, communication and operation-oriented models; concurrent, distributed and network programming; distributed operating systems; synchronization and deadlock detection in distributed systems.
  

  • CSC 7120 Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4103 . Modeling techniques, specification of queuing systems, product form networks, algorithms for performance networks, operational analysis, performance bound techniques, blocking and priority networks.
  

  • CSC 7135 Software Engineering (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4330  or equivalent. Formal specification techniques, design techniques, abstraction, information hiding, modularity, software testing, automated testing tools, maintainability factors and cost estimation.
  

  • CSC 7200 Theory of Computation I (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4890 . Algorithms, computability, decidability, enumerability; formal replacements and Church’s thesis; Turing machines, primitive recursive functions, u-recursive functions; undecidable predicates.
  

  • CSC 7201 Theory of Computation II (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 7200 . Theory of computation; problems for complexity classes, NP, P, PSPACE and Nlog; characterization of polynomial time by alternating log space Turing machines and log space Turing machines by auxiliary pushdown stores; time-space trade-offs and combinatorial problems.
  

  • CSC 7235 Advanced Software Engineering (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 7135 . Formal testing, validation and verification techniques; in-depth study of formal specification languages and techniques.
  

  • CSC 7300 Algorithm Design and Analysis (3)

    Characteristics of an algorithm; problems of algorithm existence; the design, implementation and complexity of algorithms; algorithm case studies.
  

  • CSC 7333 Machine Learning (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4444 . Fundamental principles of machine learning; inductive learning; explanation-based learning; computational approach to Boolean function learning; learning formal languages and recursive theories; neural network learning and genetic algorithms; applications of machine learning.
  

  • CSC 7351 Advanced Compiler Design Theory (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4351  or equivalent. Automatic generation of LL (1), LR (1), LALR (1) parsers, syntax directed translation of high-level control structures, error recovery, optimization of branching, local code optimization using directed acyclic graphs, loop optimization, global data flow analysis and object-code optimization.
  

  • CSC 7370 Graph Algorithms (3)

    Prereq.: MATH 4171  or equivalent. Graph layout algorithms; networks; application of network flow techniques; polynomial time algorithms and NP-completeness; dynamic graph drawing.
  

  • CSC 7373 Algorithms for Parallel and Distributed Computing (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 7300  or equivalent. Parallel algorithms for searching, sorting, matrix processing, network optimization and other problems; implementation and efficiency measures of the algorithms on different machines and VLSI systolic arrays.
  

  • CSC 7374 Computational Models for Mobile Robots (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 7300 . Computational tools for design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms for robotic applications; existing computational paradigms; constraint representation and real-time modeling for robotic vision; image understanding, path planning, autonomous navigation and sensor-fusion problems for mobile robots.
  

  • CSC 7375 Robot Vision (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 3102  or equivalent and CSC 7300 . Computational aspects of vision; utilization of techniques from computational geometry, combinatorics, probability theory and artificial intelligence; visual recognition and classification.
  

  • CSC 7380 Computational Geometry (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 7300  or equivalent. Data structures and algorithm design techniques for geometric problems; geometric searching; convex hulls; Voronoi diagrams; proximity; intersections of geometric objects; applications of computational geometry.
  

  • CSC 7381 Computational Aspects of VLSI CAD (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 7300  or equivalent. Overview of VLSI design and fabrication process; abstract model of VLSI; combinatorial optimization algorithms; circuit partitioning; placement and floor planning; global routing; detailed routing; and circuit compaction.
  

  • CSC 7402 Data Base Management Systems (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4402 . Implementation of database systems (physical model and its mapping to conceptual model); data structures and their influence on performance, concurrency control, distributed databases; advanced database systems.
  

  • CSC 7420 Parallel and VLSI Computation (3)

    Prereq.:  . Theoretical aspects of the design and analysis of algorithms for parallel computation; physical implementation of VLSI chips.
  

  • CSC 7442 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 7333 . Introduction to data mining and knowledge discovery in databases; data cleaning, statistical techniques, association rule learning; time series and spatial data mining algorithms, clustering algorithms, data visualization.
  

  • CSC 7443 Scientific Information Visualization (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 7300  or equivalent. Study of computer visualization principles, techniques and tools used for explaining and understanding information; includes visualization algorithms, techniques and applications.
  

  • CSC 7444 Advanced Artificial Intelligence (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4444 . Temporal and nonmonotonic logic; truth maintenance systems; probabilistic reasoning; deductive databases; automated learning, planning and tutoring; story under-standing; structure of domain dependent expert systems.
  

  • CSC 7446 Soft Computing (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4446  or permission of instructor. Interplay of three paradigms in soft computing; fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, neural computing and evolutionary programming; applications in image processing, diagnosis and classification, decision-making and other areas; software and simulation tools for problem solving in the soft-computing arena.
  

  • CSC 7450 Programming and Performance Evaluation of Parallel Computers (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 3102  or equivalent and CSC 7300 . Parallel programming techniques; message passing and process synchronization performance evaluation; prediction of parallel architectures and algorithms; scalability analysis.
  

  • CSC 7481 Information Retrieval Systems (3)

    Also offered as LIS 7610 . Prereq.: CSC 3102  or equivalent. Topics include commercially available retrieval systems, text content analysis, query processing models and current research problems.
  

  • CSC 7500 System Modeling and Computer Simulation (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 2263 or equivalent. Construction and use of mathematical and computer models; parameter estimation; compartmental models; simulation techniques; applications of simulations; examples and case studies from physical, social and life sciences, engineering, business and information sciences.
  

  • CSC 7501 Advanced Computer Networks (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4501 . Design and analysis of computer networks; routing algorithms and protocols; switch and router architectures; traffic flow management and error control; scheduling and quality of service; modeling and performance evaluation; queuing theory applied to computer networks; selected issues in high-speed network design.
  

  • CSC 7502 Advanced Computer and Network Security (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4601 . Secret sharing; secret sharing homomorphism; verifiable secret sharing; electronic voting; advanced cryptography; anonymity on the net; wireless security.
  

  • CSC 7540 Distributed Systems (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4103 . Networking and inter-networking; client-server model; remote procedure calls; processes and processors in distributed systems; distributed file systems; transaction-processing techniques; and distributed systems for high performance computing.
  

  • CSC 7560 Computational Methods (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4362  or equivalent. Synthesis, implementation and analysis of numerical algorithms; algorithm concept introduced in context of abstract schema.
  

  • CSC 7600 High Performance Computing I (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4362  or consent of instructor. Fundamental computational techniques required for scientific computing; important algorithms for parallel computation; high performance computing.
  

  • CSC 7601 Design Issues in High-Speed Networks: Multicast, Pricing and Control (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4501 . Multicasting architectures, protocols and applications; ATM and Internet solutions; scalable reliable multicast; distributed sensor networks; Internet pricing and economics of communication; game theoretic approaches to congestion control.
  

  • CSC 7602 Wireless Networks (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4501 . Radio systems and ad-hoc wireless networks; relevant concepts in terms of mobility, migration and service levels and their impact on system design; wireless network communication; packet radio techniques; ad-hoc networks; nomadic computing; issues in cellular networks; TCP/IP over wireless.
  

  • CSC 7610 High Performance Computing II (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 7600  or equivalent. Finite difference schemes for molecular dynamics; classical deterministic simulations; combinatorial optimization; algorithms for quantum molecular dynamics; scientific applications in high performance computing.
  

  • CSC 7620 High Performance Computing III (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 7600  or equivalent. Basic stochastic simulation techniques for massively parallel computers; simulated annealing and routing algorithms.
  

  • CSC 7700 Special Topics in Computer Science (3)

    May be taken for a max. of 12 hrs. of credit when topics vary. Specialized areas of current interest in computer science.
  

  • CSC 7701 Sensor Networking Concepts (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4501  or CSC 7501 . Self-organizing sensor networks; querying, and data aggregation; routing; energy-efficient communication protocols; sensor network security.
  

  • CSC 7702 Telecommunications Networks (3)

    Prereq.: CSC 4501 . The convergence of traditional voice-centric telecommunication networks, applications-focused distributed middleware architectures and the Internet; traditional telecommunications; telephone and ISDN architectures; Signal System 7; distribution of application processing in the Advance Intelligent Network; new frameworks for Internet-based core architectures; proposals to generalize the existing telephony architecture.
  

  • CSC 7800 Computer Science Research Seminar (1)

    Pass-fail grading. May be taken for a max. of 2 hrs. of credit when topics vary. Student presentations and discussions on research topics in computer science.
  

  • CSC 7999 Selected Readings in Computer Science (1-3)

    Prereq.: consent of department chair. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. of credit.
  

  • CSC 9000 Dissertation Research (1-12 per sem.)

    “S”/”U”grading.