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1 omputer siene bahelor of siene minor ertifiates: managing information on the world wide web master of siene in omputer siene master of siene in software engineering advaned ertifiate programs: bioinformatis tehnology, omputer arhiteture, omputer engineering, omputer networks and ommuniations, data management systems, intelligent systems, software engineering, systems software Program Desription The Bahelor of Siene degree in Computer Siene is aredited by the Computing Areditation Commission (CAC) of the Areditation Board for Engineering and Tehnology (ABET), providing majors with a sound eduational base in Computer Siene. The Minor in Computer Siene is available for students majoring in disiplines other than Computer Engineering. The ertifiate program in Managing Information on the World Wide Web was designed for non-csc majors. Students who omplete the series of seven ourses will be able to install and maintain a reasonably omplex web server, reate home pages, and link pages to loal databases. The Department offers two programs in onjuntion with other units: with the Mathematis Department, a joint program in Mathematis and Computer Siene (refer to the Mathematis setion of this atalog); and with the Eletrial and Eletronis Engineering Department, a BS and MS in Computer Engineering (refer to the Computer Engineering setion of this atalog). Career Possibilities Computer Sientist Management Information Speialist Computer Systems Analyst Tehnial Representative Teleproessing Coordinator Sientifi Appliation Programmer Data Proessing Appliation Programmer Computer Operations Manager Computer Servies Coordinator Database Administrator Data Communiations Manager Data Proessing Manager Information Speialist Programmer Analyst Software Engineer Systems Manager Systems Programmer Tehnial Control Speialist Computer Graphis Speialist Knowledge Engineer Systems Engineer Seurity Speialist Data Mining Analyst Faulty Behnam Arad, Robert Bukley, Senad Busovaa, Weide Chang, John Clevenger, Nikrouz Faroughi, Isaa Ghansah, V. Sott Gordon, Bolan Jiang, Ying Jin, Ju-Yeon Jo, Roxalie Jones, Ted Krovetz, Kwai-Ting Lan, Meiliu Lu, William Mithell, Jinsong Ouyang, Anne-Louise Radimsky, Ahmed Salem, Chung-E Wang, Cui Zhang, Du Zhang Contat Information Du Zhang, Department Chair Sara Joslin, Administrative Support Coordinator Riverside Hall 3018 (916) Speial Features The researh interests of the department faulty span a broad spetrum of Computer Siene inluding ative databases, algorithm analysis, autonomi omputing, bioinformatis, ompilers, omputer arhiteture, omputer forensis, omputer graphis and omputer game design, omputer networks and ommuniations, omputing theory, ryptography, data models and database management systems, data warehousing and data mining, distributed systems and real-time systems, formal methods, human omputer interfaes, information assurane and seurity, intelligent and knowledge based systems, Internet and web tehnologies, mahine learning, network seurity, operating systems, performane modeling and evaluation, programming languages and methodologies, software arhiteture, software projet management, software requirements engineering, software system engineering, verifiation and validation, VLSI design. A large heterogeneous network of Linux ia32/ia64, Sun RISC, and Hewlett-Pakard servers ombined with Linux, Windows, and Maintosh workstations supports the instrutional programs. Windows workstation laboratories support both lower and upper division instrution. High-end laboratories provide aess to Linux and RISC servers and workstations. Speialized laboratories support systems, ommuniations and networking, and omputer arhiteture instrution. A graduate laboratory is designed to provide graduate students with aess to a variety of advaned workstations. All students have aess to the Internet and the World Wide Web. Majors are urged to join the student hapter of the Assoiation for Computing Mahinery or the IEEE Computer Soiety. Students with high sholasti ahievement may be invited to join Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the National Honor Soiety in Computer Siene. The University s proximity to many California State agenies and major omputer orporations provides numerous opportunities for part-time student employment. Program Eduational Objetives The objetives of this program are to prepare graduates to: analyze, design, and implement a omputerized solution to a signifiant problem in a team environment using appropriate tools; enter a professional omputer siene position or an appropriate graduate program; 216 / omputer siene alifornia state university, saramento

2 omputer siene ommuniate effetively through speaking, writing, and graphis; pursue life-long learning and ontinued professional development; and be aware of ethial issues and soietal onerns relating to omputers in soiety and apply this knowledge in the ondut of their areers. Undergraduate Programs All students are admitted as pre-computer Siene majors. Registration in upper-division ourses numbered 133 and above is restrited to Computer Siene and Computer Engineering majors. Other students need to obtain approval from the CSC department hair. To hange to the Computer Siene major, students who have ompleted the following lower division (pre-major) requirements are required to omplete and submit a Change of Major form to the Computer Siene Department offie along with transript opies: CSC 015, CSC 020, CSC 028, CSC 035, CSC 060, and MATH 030 and MATH 031. Course Repeat Poliy: Students may repeat a omputer siene ourse one at most without permission. Additional repeats must be approved by the instrutor and the Department Chair by ompleting a Request to Repeat petition and submitting it to the Department. Work Experiene: Students may reeive a limited amount of aademi redit for relevant work experiene in omputer siene. There are many opportunities for students to work part-time in the federal, state and loal governments. The number of private employers is also inreasing as new high-tehnology industry ontinues to move to the Saramento area. Work experiene often leads to a permanent position upon graduation. Requirements Bahelor of Siene Degree Units required for Major: Minimum total units required for BS: 129 Grade of C- or better required in all ourses applied to the Computer Siene major. Note: Additional units may be required to meet the Saramento State foreign language requirement. Courses in parentheses are prerequisites. A. Required Lower Division Courses (15 units) (3) CSC 015 Programming Conepts and Methodology I (CSC 010 or programming experiene) (3) CSC 020 Programming Conepts and Methodology II (CSC 015) (3) CSC 028 Disrete Strutures for Computer Siene (MATH 029 and CSC 020; CSC 020 may be taken onurrently) (3) CSC 035 Introdution to Computer Arhiteture (CSC 015) (3) CSC 060 Introdution to Systems Programming in UNIX (CSC 020, CSC 035) B. Required Mathematis Courses (15 units) (4) MATH 030 Calulus I (MATH 029 or four years of high shool mathematis whih inludes two years of algebra, one year of geometry, and one year of mathematial analysis; ompletion of ELM requirement and Pre-Calulus Diagnosti Test) (4) MATH 031 Calulus II (MATH 030 or appropriate high shool based AP redit) (4) STAT 050 Introdution to Probability and Statistis (MATH 026A, MATH 030, or appropriate high shool based AP redit) (3) Selet one of the following: MATH 032 Calulus III (MATH 031) MATH 045 Differential Equations for Siene and Engineering (MATH 031) MATH 100 Applied Linear Algebra (MATH 026B or MATH 031) MATH 102 Number Theory (MATH 031) STAT 155 Introdution to Tehniques of Operations Researh (MATH 031; STAT 050, STAT 103, or STAT 115A; MATH 031 may be taken onurrently ) OR Another advaned math ourse with prior Computer Siene department approval C. Required Siene Courses (11-13 units) (4) PHYS 011A General Physis: Mehanis (MATH 030, MATH 031 or equivalent ertifiated high shool ourses. MATH 031 may be taken onurrently) (4) PHYS 011C General Physis: Eletriity and Magnetism, Modern Physis (MATH 031, PHYS 011A) (3-5) Selet one of the following (the ourse hosen annot also be used to satisfy the General Eduation B2 requirement): BIO 010 Basi Biologial Conepts BIO 011 Animal Biology (BIO 010) BIO 012 Plant Biology (BIO 010) BIO 022 Introdutory Human Anatomy (BIO 010, BIO 020, or instrutor permission) BIO 102 The Natural History of Plants (a ollege biology ourse or instrutor permission) BIO 103 Plants and Civilization (BIO 010 or equivalent) BIO 104 Physiology of Human Reprodution (BIO 010 or BIO 020 or instrutor permission) BIO 115 Introdution to Neurosiene (PSYC 001, PSYC 101, physiology and hemistry bakground strongly reommended) BIO 120 Biology of Aging (BIO 010 or BIO 020) CHEM 001A CSC 148 ECON 141 ENGR 017 General Chemistry (High shool algebra (two years) and high shool hemistry; or equivalent) Modeling and Experimental Design (MATH 031, STAT 050, profiieny in a programming language) (If hosen for a siene eletive, annot also be used for a omputer siene eletive) Introdution to Eonometris (ECON 001A, ECON 001B, ECON 140) Introdutory Ciruit Analysis (PHYS 011C, MATH 045; either may be taken onurrently) ENGR 045 Engineering Materials (PHYS 011A, CHEM 001A; CHEM 001A may be taken onurrently) PHYS 011B PHYS 115 General Physis: Heat, Light, Sound (MATH 031, PHYS 011A) Eletronis and Instrumentation (PHYS 011C or PHYS 005B, with instrutor permission) Note: To satisfy the requirements of CAC, the Computing Areditation Commission of ABET whih aredits Computer alifornia state university, saramento omputer siene / 217

3 Siene programs, students must have taken a total of four ourses in a sientifi disipline and/or quantitative siene. The ourses in a sientifi disipline must be those typially taken by the majors in that disipline. As part of this requirement a two-semester sequene in a laboratory siene must be inluded (PHYS 011A and PHYS 011C satisfies this requirement). Students ordinarily omplete one of the remaining two ourses by hoosing an appropriate ourse in General Eduation Category B2 (BIO 010 is reommended). The seond ourse is expeted to be hosen from the list above. Hene, students must have taken a total of four ourses in this ategory. D. Required Upper Division Courses (37 units) (3) CSC 130 Data Strutures and Algorithm Analysis (CSC 020, CSC 028; CSC 028 may be taken onurrently) (3) CSC 131 Computer Software Engineering (CSC 130; may be taken onurrently) (3) CSC 132 Computing Theory (CSC 028, CSC 130; CSC 130 may be taken onurrently) (3) CSC 133 Objet-Oriented Computer Graphis Programming (CSC 130, CSC 131) (3) CSC 134 Database Management and File Organization (CSC 130) (3) CSC 136 Programming Languages (CSC 035, CSC 132) (4) CSC 137 Computer Organization (CSC 028, CSC 035, CSC 130) (3) CSC 138 Computer Networks and Internets (CSC 035, CSC 060, CSC 130) (3) CSC 139 Operating System Priniples (CSC 060, CSC 137; or equivalents) (2) CSC 190 Senior Projet: Part I (Senior status; passing sore on the WPE, CSC 130, CSC 131, and four additional 3-unit CSC upper division ourses that fulfill the major requirements exluding CSC , 198, 199) (2) CSC 191 Senior Projet: Part II (CSC 190) (3) PHIL 103 Business and Computer Ethis (2) Selet two units from the following: CSC 192 Career Planning (1 unit maximum) (CSC 190, may be taken onurrently) CSC 194 Computer Siene Seminar (Upper division or graduate status in CSC) CSC 195 Fieldwork in Computer Siene CSC 195A Professional Pratie CSC 198 Co-urriular Ativities in Computer Siene CSC 199 Speial Problems E. Eletives (9 units) In addition to the required lower-division and upper-division Computer Siene ourses, Computer Siene majors must take three additional eletive ourses, totaling at least nine (9) units, hosen from undergraduate Computer Siene ourses numbered CSC 140 or above (exluding CSC 192, CSC 194, CSC 195, CSC 195A, CSC 198, CSC 199). A variety of ombinations is aeptable, but it is required that these eletive ourses be hosen with advisor onsultation and approval. With advane written approval from their advisor, the ourse instrutor, and the Department Chair, students with a GPA of 3.0 or better may take graduate ourses as eletives. In any ase students must meet the prerequisite stated in the atalog prior to taking any eletive ourse. Cooperative Eduation Program (work experiene) The Computer Siene Department enourages students to partiipate in the Cooperative Eduation Program (COOP) whih provides alternate periods of university study and major-related, paid work experiene in private industry or government. The experiene will enhane the student s employment prospets upon graduation. Most partiipants in this program will omplete the equivalent of two six-month work periods, one in their junior year and one in their senior year. Students must enroll in CSC 195A (B,C,D) and are awarded a ertifiate upon satisfatory ompletion of the two work periods. However, the redits for this ourse do not replae the urriular requirements of the BS Computer Siene degree. Students interested in COOP should apply in the Career Center (LSN 2000). For information all (916) Requirements Minor Total units required for Minor: 21 Admission Requirement Completion of MATH 029 with a grade of C- or better, or passing the ELM at a level qualifying for MATH 030. A. Required Courses (12 units) (3) CSC 015 Programming Conepts and Methodology I (CSC 010, or programming experiene) (3) CSC 020 Programming Conepts and Methodology II (CSC 015) (3) CSC 028 Disrete Strutures for Computer Siene (MATH 029 and CSC 020; CSC 020 may be taken onurrently) (3) CSC 130 Data Strutures and Algorithm Analysis (CSC 020, CSC 028; CSC 028 may be taken onurrently) B. Eletives (9 units) (9) Selet nine additional units with faulty approval; at least six units must be upper division ourses, and only Computer Siene ourses whih are part of the major may be applied to this nine-unit requirement. Requirements Certifiate Program Managing Information on the World Wide Web A grade of C- or better required in all ourses applied to this ertifiate program. Note: This ertifiate program is speifially intended for nonomputer siene students interested in mastering a set of skills for reating and managing information on a web server. (2) CSC 008 Exploring the Internet (2) CSC 022 Visual Programming in BASIC (3) CSC 080 Information Exhange on the Web (CSC 008) (3) CSC 120 Setting up and Maintaining a Web Server (CSC 080 or instrutor approval) (3) CSC 121 Using Sripts on the Web (CSC 080 or instrutor approval) (3) CSC 122* Web Database Systems (CSC 120 or instrutor approval) (3) CSC 123* Server Side Web Programming (CSC 022 or equivalent experiene with Visual Basi or Visual Basi for Appliations (VBA); CSC 080 or equivalent HTML skills, CSC 120 reommended) *With advisor approval an eletive ourse from CSC or Communiation Studies (COMS) an be used in plae of either CSC 122 or CSC 123, but not both. 218 / omputer siene alifornia state university, saramento

4 omputer siene Graduate Programs The Computer Siene Department offers Master s Degree programs in Computer Siene and Software Engineering, Certifiates of Advaned Study for students enrolled in these programs, and a Master s Degree joint program in Computer Engineering. The primary goal of eah of these programs is to prepare students to serve as effetive professional omputer speialists in a soiety whih inreasingly depends on omputer usage and tehnology. A seondary goal is to prepare interested students for researh, teahing, or further study toward the Ph.D. in Computer Siene. The programs also enable individuals with bakground in other areas to obtain the skills and knowledge neessary to enter and advane in employment in omputer-related industries. The admission requirements for the Master s in Computer Siene and the Master s in Software Engineering are idential. Completion of the Master of Siene in Computer Siene requires advaned ourse work in a minimum of three of the following areas: omputer arhiteture/omputer engineering, database management systems, intelligent systems, networks and ommuniations, software engineering, and systems software. Completion of the Master of Siene in Software Engineering requires advaned ourse work in the software engineering area. Teahing assoiateships are available for a small number of qualified graduate students; these students assist in instrution of undergraduate ourses, supervision of laboratory work, and aid faulty members in researh projets. Interested persons should apply in the Department offie. Due to the large number of graduate students in omputer siene who are employed, most graduate level ourses are offered in the late afternoon or evening. Admission Requirements Admission as a lassified graduate student requires: a baalaureate degree; a minimum 3.0 GPA in the last 60 units attempted; GRE general test; mathematial preparation inluding two semesters of alulus and one semester of alulus-based probability and statistis orresponding to Saramento State ourses MATH 030, MATH 031, STAT 050; omputer siene lower division preparation inluding programming profiieny, disrete strutures, mahine organization, and UNIX and PC-based program development environment profiieny orresponding to Saramento State ourses CSC 015, CSC 020, CSC 028, CSC 035, and CSC 060 and as evidened by a pass on the graduate student plaement test or a baalaureate degree in omputer siene; and omputer siene advaned preparation as evidened by a 3.25 GPA in the following Saramento State upper division omputer siene ourses or their equivalent elsewhere: CSC 130, CSC 131, CSC 132, CSC 137, CSC 138, CSC 139. Appliants with defiienies in the admission requirements area are advised to remove any suh defiienies before applying. Admission Proedures Appliations are aepted February through Marh for fall semester and August through September for spring semester. All prospetive graduate students, inluding Saramento State graduates, must file the following with the Saramento State Offie of Graduate Studies, River Front Center 206, (916) : an online appliation for admission; two sets of offiial transripts from all olleges and universities attended, other than Saramento State; and offiial GRE general test sores Appliations must be reeived by April 1 (fall semester) and Otober 1 (spring semester). Advanement to Candiday Eah student must file an appliation for Advanement to Candiday, indiating a proposed program of graduate study. This proedure should begin as soon as the lassified graduate student has: removed any defiienies in admission requirements; ompleted at least 12 units of graduate level (200 series) omputer siene ourses with a minimum 3.0 GPA; and passed the Writing Profiieny Examination (WPE) or seured approval for a WPE waiver. Students must have been advaned to andiday before they an register for Master s thesis or projet. Advanement to Candiday forms are available in the Offie of Graduate Studies. The student fills out the form after planning a degree program in onsultation with a Computer Siene graduate advisor. The ompleted form must be signed by the Graduate Coordinator or the Department Chair and is then returned to the Offie of Graduate Studies for approval. Requirements Master of Siene Degree Computer Siene Units required for MS: 30, inluding at least 21 units of 200- level and 500-level ourses Minimum GPA: 3.0 Note: Only those ourses ompleted within seven years prior to date of graduation will satisfy ourse requirements. An outline of degree requirements follows: A. Required Courses (13 units) (3) CSC 201 Programming Language Priniples (fully (3) CSC 204+ Data Models for Database Management Systems (fully lassified graduate status in Computer (3) CSC 205+ Computer Systems Struture (fully Siene, Software Engineering or (3) CSC 206 Algorithms and Paradigms (fully lassified (1) CSC 209 Researh Methodology (fully lassified Software Engineering, passing sore on the WPE, ompletion of at least 12 units of 200-level CSC ourses) +Students whose undergraduate preparation has overed a signifiant alifornia state university, saramento omputer siene / 219

5 amount of the material in CSC 204 or CSC 205 may be given a waiver by the Department from taking one or more of these ourses. In this ase, for eah ourse waived with department approval, the student must take three additional units of Restrited Eletives, desribed in Setion C below. B. Breadth Requirement (9 units) Selet one ourse from three of the following areas: Computer Arhiteture/Computer Engineering CSC 237 Miroproessor Systems Arhiteture (CSC 205) CSC 242 Computer-Aided Design Methodology for Computer Systems (CSC 205) CSC 273 Hierarhial Digital Design Methodology (CSC 205, CPE 064 or equivalent) CSC 280 Advaned Computer Arhiteture (CSC 205, fully lassified graduate status in Computer Database Management Systems CSC 212 Bioinformatis: Data Integration and Algorithms (CSC 130, STAT 50, and graduate status. BIO 10 reommended) CSC 244 Database Design (CSC 174 or CSC 204) Intelligent Systems CSC 214 Knowledge-Based Systems (fully lassified CSC 215 Artifiial Intelligene (fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene, Software Engineering, or Computer CSC 219 Mahine Learning (fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene, Software Engineering, or Computer Networks and Communiations CSC 255 Computer Networks (CSC 138 or CPE 138) CSC 258 Distributed Systems (CSC 204, fully CSC 275 Advaned Data Communiation Systems (CSC 138 or CPE 138 or CSC 205) Software Engineering CSC 230 Software System Engineering (fully Siene or Software Engineering; or fully Engineering and CSC 131) CSC 231 Software Engineering Metris (fully CSC 232 Software Requirements Analysis and Design (fully CSC 233 Advaned Software Engineering Projet Management (fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene or Software CSC 234 Software Verifiation and Validation (fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene or Software Engineering; or fully lassified status graduate status in Computer Engineering and CSC 131) CSC 235 Software Arhiteture (fully lassified CSC 236 Formal Methods in Software Engineering (fully CSC 238 Human-Computer Interfae Design (fully System Software CSC 239 Advaned Operating System Priniples and Design (CSC 205) CSC 250 Computer Seurity and Privay (fully CSC 251 Priniples of Compiler Design (CSC 151 or CSC 201) C. Restrited Eletives (3-6 units) Prior to taking an eletive ourse, students must obtain approval from their advisor, and either the Graduate Coordinator or the Department Chair. Students should hoose their eletives aording to the following guidelines: 1. One of the following upper division ourses: CSC 142, CSC 148, CSC 155, CSC 159, CSC 176, CSC 177 as long as they have not been used towards another degree. (A maximum of 6 undergraduate units may be used in any graduate program.) 2. Any 200-level CSC ourses not already used to satisfy the Breadth Requirement, with the exeption of CSC 295 and CSC 299. Students not required to take CSC 204 or CSC 205 must, for eah ourse waived, take an additional three units in this ategory. 3. Related 200-level ourses from outside the Computer Siene Department may only be taken with prior department approval and may not have been used in another program. D. Culminating Requirement (2-5 units) Selet one of the following: CSC 500 Master s Thesis (CSC 209; advaned to andiday) OR CSC 502 Master s Projet (CSC 209; advaned to andiday) Students are required to make an oral presentation of their master s projet or ondut an oral defense of their master s thesis. The reommended department-level deadline in eah semester for submitting an MS projet or thesis signed by the ommittee hair and its members to the graduate oordinator s offie is 10 weekdays prior to the University deadline. Requirements Master of Siene Degree Software Engineering Units required for MS: 30, inluding a software engineering projet or thesis with a minimum 3.0 GPA. This degree provides the student with the ability to speialize in the appliation of software engineering priniples to the development of large and omplex omputer systems. The program s ourses are strutured to satisfy two groups of students: (1) those pursuing an MSSE degree and (2) those interested in individual ourses. Individuals wishing to pursue a 220 / omputer siene alifornia state university, saramento

6 omputer siene degree must satisfy the Computer Siene graduate program entrane requirements. Those enrolling in individual ourses must have an undergraduate degree in Computer Siene (or related field) or a minimum of one-year s work experiene involving some aspet of software engineering. The MS Degree in Software Engineering offers, in addition to a ore urriulum, advaned studies in the software engineering area. This program overs the entire software appliation development proess from problem definition through requirements, design, implementation, testing, operation, and maintenane. Note: Only those ourses ompleted within seven years prior to date of graduation will satisfy ourse requirements. An outline of degree requirements follows: A. Required Software Engineering Core Courses (16 units) (1) CSC 209 Researh Methodology (fully lassified Software Engineering, passing sore on the WPE, ompletion of at least 12 units of 200-level ourses in Computer Siene) (3) CSC 230 Software System Engineering (fully Siene or Software Engineering; or fully Engineering and CSC 131) (3) CSC 232 Software Requirements Analysis and Design (fully (3) CSC 233 Advaned Software Engineering Projet Management (fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene or Software (3) CSC 235 Software Arhiteture (fully lassified (3) CSC 238 Human-Computer Interfae Design (fully B. Software Engineering Eletives (6 units) Selet two from the following: CSC 204 CSC 231 CSC 234 CSC 236 Data Models for Database Management Systems (fully lassified graduate status in Computer Software Engineering Metris (fully Software Verifiation and Validation (fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene or Software Engineering; or fully lassified graduate status in Computer Engineering and CSC 131) Formal Methods in Software Engineering (fully Siene, or C. Restrited Eletives (3-6 units) Prior to taking an eletive ourse, students must obtain approval from their advisor, and either the Graduate Coordinator or the Department Chair. Students should hoose their eletives aording to the following guidelines: Any 200-level CSC ourses not already used to satisfy Requirements A and B, with the exeption of CSC 295 and CSC 299. An additional three units in this ategory must be taken if a ore ourse is waived. Related 200-level ourses from outside the Computer Siene Department may only be taken with prior department approval and may not have been used in another program. D. Culminating Requirement (2-5 units) Selet one of the following: CSC 500 Master s Thesis (CSC 209; advaned to andiday) OR CSC 502 Master s Projet (CSC 209; advaned to andiday) Note: Students are required to make an oral presentation of their master s projet or ondut an oral defense of their master s thesis. The reommended department-level deadline in eah semester for submitting an MS projet or thesis signed by the ommittee hair and its members to the graduate oordinator s offie is 10 weekdays prior to the University deadline. Requirements Advaned Certifiate Programs Minimum required GPA for all ourses taken in the program: 3.0 Note: The Certifiates in Computer Siene program are designed to reognize students who have ompleted the ore graduate ourses CSC 201, CSC 204, CSC 205 and CSC 206 plus additional advaned ourse work in a speialty area. These ertifiates are available only for MS Computer Siene matriulated students. Certifiate in Bioinformatis Tehnology (12 units) (3) CSC 212 Bioinformatis: Data Integration and Algorithms (CSC 130, STAT 050, and graduate status; BIO 10 reommended) (3) CSC 215 Artifiial Intelligene (fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene, Software Engineering, or Computer OR CSC 219 Mahine Learning (fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene, Software Engineering, or Computer (3) Selet one of the following: CSC 244 Database Design (CSC 174 or CSC 204) CSC 258 Distributed Systems (CSC 204 and fully CHEM 245 Computational Chemistry (One semester of physial hemistry or instrutor permission) (3) BIO 224 Genomis, Proteomis and Bioinformatis (BIO 184, BIO 222, graduate status or instrutor permission) Certifiate in Computer Arhiteture (15 units) (3) CSC 142 Advaned Computer Organization (CSC 137 or equivalent) (3) CSC 280 Advaned Computer Arhiteture (CSC 205, fully lassified graduate status in Computer (3) Selet one of the following: CSC 237 Miroproessor Systems Arhiteture (CSC 205) CSC 242 Computer-Aided Design Methodology for Computer Systems (CSC 205) CSC 273 Hierarhial Digital Design Methodology (CSC 205 or CPE 064 or equivalent) alifornia state university, saramento omputer siene / 221

7 CSC 275 Advaned Data Communiation Systems (CSC 138 or CPE 138 or CSC 205) CSC 288A Speial Topis in Computer Siene - Computer Arhiteture/Computer Engineering (Fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene or Software Engineering or instrutor permission) (3) Selet one of the following: CSC 239 Advaned Operating System Priniples and Design (CSC 205) CSC 251 Priniples of Compiler Design (CSC 151 or CSC 201) (3) Selet one of the following: EEE 285 Miro-Computer System Design I (CPE 185 or EEE 174) EEE 286 Miro-Computer System Design II (CPE 186 or EEE 285) Certifiate in Computer Engineering (12 units) (3) CSC 142 Advaned Computer Organization (CSC 137 or equivalent) (3) Selet one of the following: CSC 237 Miroproessor Systems Arhiteture (CSC 205) CSC 275 Advaned Data Communiation Systems CSC 280 (CSC 138 or CPE 138 or CSC 205) Advaned Computer Arhiteture (CSC 205, fully lassified graduate status in Computer CSC 288A Speial Topis in Computer Siene - Computer Arhiteture/Computer Engineering (Fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene or Software Engineering or instrutor permission) (3) CSC 242 Computer-Aided Design Methodology for Computer Systems (CSC 205) OR CSC 273 Hierarhial Digital Design Methodology (CSC 205, CPE 064 or equivalent) (3) EEE 285 Miro-Computer System Design I EEE 286 (CPE 185 or EEE 174) OR Miro-Computer System Design II (CPE 186 or EEE 285) Certifiate in Computer Networks and Communiations (9 units) (9) Selet three of the following: CSC 255 Computer Networks (CSC 138 or CPE 138) CSC 258 Distributed Systems (CSC 204 and fully CSC 275 Advaned Data Communiation Systems (CSC 138 or CPE 138 or CSC 205) CSC 288F Speial Topis in Computer Siene - Network Communiations (Fully Siene or Software Engineering or instrutor permission) Certifiate in Data Management Systems (9 units) (9) Selet three of the following: CSC 244 Database Design (CSC 174 or CSC 204) CSC 250 Computer Seurity and Privay (Fully CSC 258 Distributed Systems (CSC 204 and fully CSC 288E Speial Topis in Computer Siene - Database Management (Fully lassified Software Engineering or instrutor permission) Certifiate in Intelligent Systems (9 units) (3) CSC 215 Artifiial Intelligene (fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering or instrutor permission) (6) Selet two of the following: CSC 214 CSC 219 Knowledge-Based Systems (Fully lassified Mahine Learning (Fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene, Software Engineering, or Computer CSC 288B Speial Topis in Computer Siene - Intelligent Systems (Fully lassified Software Engineering, or instrutor permission) Certifiate in Software Engineering (9 units) (9) Selet three of the following: CSC 230 CSC 231 CSC 232 CSC 233 CSC 234 CSC 235 CSC 236 CSC 238 Software System Engineering (Fully Siene or Software Engineering; OR fully Engineering and CSC 131) Software Engineering Metris (Fully Software Requirements Engineering (Fully lassified graduate status in Computer Advaned Software Engineering Projet Management (Fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene or Software Software Verifiation and Validation (Fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene or Software Engineering; OR fully Engineering and CSC 131) Software Arhiteture (Fully lassified Formal Methods in Software Engineering (Fully Human Computer Interfae Design (Fully CSC 288D Speial Topis in Computer Siene - Software Engineering (Fully lassified Software Engineering or instrutor permission) 222 / omputer siene alifornia state university, saramento

8 omputer siene Certifiate in Systems Software (9 units) (9) Selet three of the following: CSC 239 Advaned Operating System Priniples and Design (CSC 205) CSC 244 Database Design (CSC 174 or CSC 204) CSC 246 Priniples of Conurrent Programming (MATH 101, CSC 139; or fully lassified CSC 251 Priniples of Compiler Design (CSC 151 or CSC 201) CSC 258 Distributed Systems (CSC 204 and fully One of the above may be replaed by one of the following: CSC 245 Performane Modeling and Evaluation (Fully lassified graduate status in Computer CSC 250 Computer Seurity and Privay (Fully CSC 288C Speial Topis in Computer Siene - Systems Software (Fully lassified Software Engineering or instrutor permission) Lower Division Courses CSC 001. Introdution to Computer Siene. Fundamental onepts of omputers, omputation and programming; history and priniples of omputing; problem solving; input, output; data representation, storage, and file organization; omputer hardware, networking and data ommuniation; soial, eonomi and ethial impliations; omputer seurity and privay. Students will solve problems using the BASIC programming language. Leture, two hours; tehnial ativity and laboratory, two hours. Prerequisite: Intermediate algebra. 3 units. CSC 001A. Introdution to Computer Siene for Advaned Students. Same material as overed in CSC 001 but intended for students who already have signifiant knowledge of the fundamental onepts of omputers and/or omputer programming. Students must attend the orientation session during the first lass meeting. Two plaement tests, one on programming and one on onepts, will be sheduled and used to determine student s prior preparation. Note: May be taken by those wishing to obtain redit by examination. Please refer to examination redit guidelines in the University atalog. Not open to students who have reeived redit for CSC 001 or MIS 005. Graded Credit/No Credit. 3 units. CSC 004A. Introdution to the PC Environment. Introdution to omputer hardware and software. Based on the Intel hipset (286, 386, 489, Pentium mahines). Topis inlude: omponents of omputer hardware inluding boards found inside a typial omputer, basi DOS ommand, appliation software, simple software installation, program management, file/diretory organization, and buying your own omputer. Note: Does not require any prior knowledge of omputers. 1 unit. CSC 004B. Introdution to Windows. Introdution to Mirosoft Windows. Topis inlude: using the Program Manager, running Windows and DOS programs, organizing the desktop, ustomizing Windows and installing Windows software. Prerequisite: CSC 004A. 1 unit. CSC 004C. Configuring your PC. Provides the student with enough understanding of the hardware and software PC system operating in a Windows environment to be able to upgrade their omputer, ask the right questions from vendors, understand the possible soures of hardware and software onflits, install new hardware and do advaned installation of new software. Prerequisite: CSC 004B. 1 unit. CSC 005. Personal Computing. Introdution to the role and use of personal (miro) omputers. Explanation and hands-on experiene with the personal omputer, emphasizing the use and relevany of ommon software for word proessing, filing, spreadsheet analysis, graphis, and ommuniations. Examination of the personal omputing milieu and the appliations environment. Leture two hours, tehnial ativity and laboratory two hours. 3 units. CSC 006A. Miroomputer Appliations Word Proessing. Miroomputer-based introdutory level ourse in word proessing on miroomputers. 1 unit. CSC 006B. Miroomputer Appliations Spreadsheets. Miroomputer-based introdutory level ourse in spreadsheet onepts and appliations. Note: Not open to students reeiving redit for MIS 001B. 1 unit. CSC 006C. Miroomputer Appliations Database Management. Miroomputer-based introdutory level ourse in database management onepts and appliations. 1 unit. CSC 008. Exploring the Internet. User s view of loal, state, national and international omputer networks. Software tools to aess and retrieve information from around the world. Leture one hour, tehnial ativity and laboratory, two hours. 2 units. CSC 008S. Self-Paed Exploring the Internet. Covers the same material as CSC 008, Exploring the Internet. Letures are, however, provided by eletroni means, in addition to meetings for orientation, laboratory demonstrations, and tests. Provides a user s view of loal, state, national, and international omputer networks. Software tools to aess and retrieve information from around the world inlude World Wide Web software tools, and muh more. Inluded also are basi elements of ommuniation protools, trends and future of the information superhighway, and an overview of how the Saramento State omputer network fits in the larger piture. Graded Credit/No Credit. 2 units. CSC 010. Introdution to Programming. Introdution to omputer siene with an emphasis on programming onepts and methodology. Intended to prepare students with little or no programming experiene for CSC 015. Computer hardware and software, data representation, data storage, programming onepts and methodology inluding program solving and algorithm development, sequential programming, flow of ontrol, modular and/or objet based programming. Leture two hours, tehnial ativity and laboratory two hours. Prerequisite: Passing grade on the ELM. 3 units. CSC 015. Programming Conepts and Methodology I. Programming onepts using an objet-oriented programming language. Introdution to methodologies for program design, development, testing, and doumentation. Topis inlude program design, algorithm design, number systems, lasses and objets, methods (funtions), ontrol strutures, arrays, and interative input/output. Leture two hours, tehnial ativity and laboratory two hours. Prerequisite: CSC 010, or programming experiene in a high-level programming language. 3 units. CSC 015W. Programming Methodology I Workshop. Designed to assist students in developing a more thorough understanding of programming methodology and problem solving tehniques. Ativity two hours. Corequisite: CSC 015. Graded Credit/No Credit. 1 unit. alifornia state university, saramento omputer siene / 223

9 CSC 020. Programming Conepts and Methodology II. Appliation of objet-oriented tehniques for systemati problem analysis and speifiation, design, oding, testing, and doumentation. Semester-long projet approah emphasizing larger programs. Managing program omplexity using abstration. Introdution to algorithm analysis and Big-O notation. Advaned language features. Basi sorting and searhing algorithms. Reursion. Leture two hours, tehnial ativity and laboratory two hours. Prerequisite: CSC units. CSC 020W. Programming Methodology II Workshop. Designed to assist students in developing a more thorough understanding of programming methodology and problem solving tehniques. Ativity two hours. Corequisite: CSC 020. Graded Credit/No Credit. 1 unit. CSC 021. Freshman Seminar: Beoming an Eduated Person. Introdution to the nature and possible meanings of higher eduation, and the funtions and resoures of the University. Designed to help students develop and exerise fundamental aademi suess strategies and to improve their basi learning skills. Development of information ompetene and omputer literay. Students interat with fellow students and the seminar leader to build a ommunity of aademi and personal support. 3 units. CSC 022. Visual Programming in BASIC. Beginning and advaned features of Visual BASIC language available on personal omputers. Topis inlude: visual user interfaes, program loops, arrays, tables, user and system funtions, subroutines, strings, files. Appliations in areas suh as business, graphis, musi, and games. Leture one hour, tehnial ativity and laboratory two hours. 2 units. CSC 025. Introdution to C Programming. Topis inlude: types, operators, ontrol strutures, input/output, arithmeti operations, the C library and preproessor, funtions and parameters, arrays, strings, pointers, and strutures. Program design and style will be emphasized. Students will use a miroomputer C ompiler. Note: Students with signifiant programming experiene should take CSC 060 rather than CSC 025. Leture two hours, tehnial ativity and laboratory two hours. 3 units. CSC 028. Disrete Strutures for Computer Siene. Introdution to the essential disrete strutures used in Computer Siene, with emphasis on their appliations. Topis inlude: ounting methods, elementary formal logi and set theory, reursive programming, digital logi and ombinational iruits, real number representation, regular expressions, finite automata. Prerequisite: MATH 029, CSC 020; CSC 020 may be taken onurrently. 3 units. CSC 035. Introdution to Computer Arhiteture. Internal representation of numeri and non-numeri data, assembly level mahine arhiteture, addressing modes, subroutine linkage, polled input/output, interrupts, high-level language interfaing, maros and pseudo operations. Leture two hours, tehnial ativity and laboratory two hours. Prerequisite: CSC units. CSC 060. Introdution to Systems Programming in UNIX. Features of the C language ommonly used in systems programming, appliation to systems programming in a UNIX environment. Topis inlude C preproessor maros, I/O, bit-manipulation failities, timesharing system onepts, file permissions, shell sript programming, make files and soure ode ontrol, basi system alls like fork and exe, pointers and dynami memory alloation, libraries and reloation and linking onepts inluding assembler handling of symbol tables. Prior knowledge of a C like programming language is presumed. Prerequisite: CSC 020, CSC units. CSC 080. Information Exhange on the Web. Covers the basi elements needed to ommuniate on the World Wide Web. The primary emphasis will be use of the HTML language to reate home pages. Other topis inlude Internet protools, use of different browsers, setting up a Web server, and new Web software tools. Prerequisite: CSC units. CSC 085. Programming in Java. Conepts, fundamentals and priniples of objet-oriented programming in the Java language. Inludes design and ode implementation using Java both as a general purpose programming language and also as a language speifially suited to automating World Wide Web pages. Students will reate stand-alone Java appliations and Java applets that are embedded in the Web page. Prerequisite: CSC units. CSC 096. Experimental Offerings in Computer Siene. When a suffiient number of qualified students apply, one of the staff will ondut a seminar in some topi of omputer siene. Note: May be repeated for redit. 1-4 units. CSC 098. Co-Curriular Ativities in Computer Siene for Non-Majors. Students will provide tehnial assistane in labs, assist instrutors in grading ourse work, or assist in other ativities related to the subjet matter and onerns of the department. Graded Credit/No Credit. 1-3 units. CSC 099. Speial Problems for Non-Majors. Individual projets or direted reading in speified topis in omputer siene. Note: Open only to students who appear ompetent to arry on individual work; approval of faulty supervisor and advisor required. May be repeated for redit. Graded Credit/No Credit. 1-3 units. Upper Division Courses CSC 120. Setting up and Maintaining a Web Server. Topis inlude: ommuniation on the Web, HTTP protool, hoosing server software, basi installation, onfiguring the server, CGI sripts, managing the server, Web seurity, working with JAVA, using server sripts and proedures for doing business on the Web. Leture two hours, tehnial ativity and lab two hours. Prerequisite: CSC 080 or instrutor permission. 3 units. CSC 121. Using Sripts on the Web. Provides the student experiene in developing interative Web pages. Sripting tools are most useful to both Internet and Intranet developers. They provide the quikest, easiest way to reate windows and douments with dynami features and to develop forms with user interfae elements to apture user input and management of information on the Web. Students will work with Navigator, MIME Types, plug-in objets, Web seurity and ookies. Leture 3 hours. Prerequisite: CSC 080 or instrutor permission. 3 units. CSC 122. Web Database Systems. Introdues students to database management systems, their struture and usage, with leture and lab omponents. Partiular emphasis on database aess via Web interfaes. Topis will inlude onnetivity between Web pages and databases. Covers an introdution to SQL, the standard relational DBMS query language, as well as seleted topis on Web searh engines. Prerequisite: CSC 120; instrutor permission. 3 units. CSC 123. Server Side Web Programming. Introdution to developing dynami web pages using Ative Server pages. Tools suh as Visual Interdev will be used to develop salable, lient/ server, database-driven appliations that are browser-neutral. Format onsists of two 1.5 hour leture/lab sessions per week. Prerequisite: CSC 022 or equivalent experiene with Visual Basi or Visual Basi for Appliations (VBA); CSC 080 or equivalent HTML skills; CSC 120 reommended. 3 units. CSC 130. Data Strutures and Algorithm Analysis. Speifiation, implementation, and manipulation of omplex data strutures: linear/lists, staks, queues, trees, sets, and graphs. Design and analyze algorithms. Reursion and stak-based memory management. Advaned searhing and sorting. NP-ompleteness. Prerequisite: CSC 020, CSC 028; CSC 028 may be taken onurrently. 3 units. CSC 131. Computer Software Engineering. Priniples of Software Engineering overing the software development life yle, inluding software requirements engineering (eliitation, modeling, analysis and speifiation), software design, software implementation and testing. Main topis inlude various software development proess models, method and tehniques for speifying requirements, arhitetural and detailed design speifiation, prototyping, top-down and bottom-up 224 / omputer siene alifornia state university, saramento

10 omputer siene software implementation and testing. Topis also inlude projet management, projet doumentation and the development of ommuniation skills through written doumentation and oral presentation. Prerequisite: CSC 130; may be taken onurrently. 3 units. CSC 132. Computing Theory. Introdution to omputing theory with examples and appliations. Automata and formal languages; language reognition and generation; language hierarhy; deterministi and non-deterministi automata; regular expressions; pushdown automata and ontext-free grammars; properties of regular and ontext-free languages; Turing mahines; omputable and nonomputable funtions; deidability. Prerequisite: CSC 028, CSC 130; CSC 130 may be taken onurrently. 3 units. CSC 133. Objet-Oriented Computer Graphis Programming. Introdution to omputer graphis and advaned topis in objetoriented (OO) programming. The OO paradigm is used throughout, utilizing omputer graphis as the vehile for solidifying basi OO onepts, studying the implementation of event-driven systems, and for developing a thorough understanding of advaned OO onepts suh as inheritane and polymorphism. Topis inlude fundamental onepts of objet-oriented programming, software design patterns, graphi devies, line and surfae drawing, simple 2D and 3D representation, and use of User Interfae omponents. Prerequisite: CSC 130, CSC units. CSC 134. Database Management and File Organization. File systems, storage strutures and aess methods; data modeling; Entity-Relationship analysis and data normalization; design of appliations using database tehnology; elements of ommerial database management systems; introdution to transation proessing; introdution to SQL; information interhange and XML; database proessing on the Web. Prerequisite: CSC units. CSC 136. Programming Languages. Evolution and harateristis of programming languages. Sripting, proedural, objet-oriented, funtional and logi paradigms. Language speifiation; interpreters and ompilers; virtual mahines; parsing tehniques. Design and implementation of seleted features of programming languages. Programming languages used in the development of intelligent systems, with introdution to Artifiial Intelligene. Trends in programming languages. Prerequisite: CSC 35, CSC units. CSC 137. Computer Organization. Introdution to omputer organization and arhiteture. Topis inlude ombinational devies, sequential and synhronized iruits, memory, bus strutures, input/output and interrupt strutures, CPU organization, ontrol unit design and organization, and an introdution to modern proessor and memory features. Projets inlude onstrution of a omplete simple system using a shemati simulator and HDL. Prerequisite: CSC 028, CSC 035, CSC units. CSC 138. Computer Networks and Internets. Overview of the fundamentals of omputer networks and onnetions between networks, from the physial layer up through peer-to-peer ommuniations at the appliation level. Lower layer harateristis inluding serial vs. parallel, apaity issues, high-speed onnetions, LAN framing and error handling. LAN vs. WAN harateristis, network arhiteture and the ISO network model. Internetworking omponents inluding LANs, repeaters, routers, bridges, and gateways. Internet addresses, TCP/IP, and the Domain Name System. Common Internet lient/server appliation protools inluding SMTP and FTP. Client/Server programming involving sokets. World Wide Web harateristis inluding CGI and HTTP protool, Web pages, Web browsers, Web servers, and Applets. Introdution to advaned Web issues suh as Web seurity, searh engine operations, and Web database operations. Prerequisite: CSC 035, CSC 060, CSC 130. Cross-listed as CPE 138; only one may be ounted for redit. 3 units. CSC 139. Operating System Priniples. Contemporary operating system organization and struture. Topis inlude: proess representation, onurreny, sheduling, interproess ommuniation and synhronization, deadlok, real and virtual memory management, devie management, file systems, network and distributed operating systems, seurity and protetion. Prerequisite: CSC 060, CSC 137; or equivalents. 3 units. CSC 142. Advaned Computer Organization. Design and performane issues of omputers: CPU, I/O interfae, and memory. Design alternatives for arithmeti funtions, CPU internal arhiteture, instrution set, instrution yle, I/O, interrupt, diret memory aess, and bus and memory hierarhy. CAD tools for shemati apture and simulations. Students will design and simulate a miroomputer. Prerequisite: CSC 137 or equivalent. Cross-listed as CPE 142; only one may be ounted for redit. 3 units. CSC 148. Modeling and Experimental Design. Modeling and simulation tehniques; Monte Carlo methods; queuing theory; model formulation, data olletion and analysis, experimental design; model verifiation and validation. Prerequisite: MATH 031, STAT 050, and profiieny in a programming language. 3 units. CSC 151. Compiler Constrution. Pratial approah to ompiler design and implementation. Organization of a ompiler, algorithms for lexial, syntati and semanti analysis, reursive desent and/or LALR parsing, organization of symbol tables, error detetion and reovery, objet ode generation. Modular design will be emphasized. Prerequisite: CSC 136, may be taken onurrently. 3 units. CSC 155. Advaned Computer Graphis. Modeling, viewing, and rendering tehniques in 3D omputer graphis systems. Topis inlude modeling systems and data strutures; polygonal and parametri surfae representation; transformations, windowing, lipping and projetions in 3D; hidden surfae removal algorithms; tehniques for realism suh as shading, shadows, highlights, and texture; fratals and proedural models; introdution to animation; hardware support for omputer graphis; and the appliation of graphis priniples to virtual reality systems and 3D games. Prerequisite: CSC units. CSC 159. Operating System Pragmatis. Appliation of operating system priniples to the design and implementation of a multitasking operating system. Students will write an operating system for a omputer platform. Topis inlude: sheduling of proesses, ontrol and alloation of omputer resoures, and user interfaing. Prerequisite: CSC 139. Cross-listed as CPE 159; only one may be ounted for redit. 3 units. CSC 170. Software Requirements and Speifiation. Analysis and speifiation of funtional and non-funtional requirements for real-time and non-real-time software systems in the ontext of a software development lifeyle. Determining ustomer and user software requirements and ensuring that speifiations are orret, omplete, and testable. Inludes modeling tehniques, methods for representing real-time requirements, and the use of Computer- Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools to illustrate analysis onepts. Prerequisite: CSC units. CSC 171. Software Engineering Projet Management. Fundamental issues in the management and eonomis of a software engineering projet in the ontext of the software development lifeyle. Topis inlude: tehniques for projet planning (budgeting and sheduling), ontrolling (inluding quality assurane and onfiguration management), organizing, staffing, and direting a software projet (leadership and motivation); and ontemporary issues in management. Prerequisite: CSC units. CSC 174. Database Management Systems. Topis in database analysis and design, and appliations; Extended Entity-Relationship and UML modeling; SQL view, query proessing, and query optimization; onurreny ontrol, transation performane and reovery algorithms; integrity onstraints and triggers; funtional dependenies and normalization algorithms; appliation generator tehnologies; performane and seurity issues in Internet database proessing; introdution to data mining; introdution to database administration. Prerequisite: CSC 131, CSC units. CSC 176. Advaned Database Management Systems. Advaned objet-relational systems, advaned atalog systems, seurity mehanisms, distributed database proessing, advaned shema design-partitioning, introdution to data warehousing and data mining, materialized views, Internet tehnologies, parallel query proessing, system utilities, database tuning, DBA tools and tehniques. Prerequisite: CSC units. alifornia state university, saramento omputer siene / 225

11 CSC 177. Data Warehousing and Data Mining. Data warehousing involves data preproessing, data integration, and providing online analytial proessing (OLAP) tools for the interative analysis of multidimensional data, whih failitates effetive data mining. Data mining is the automated extration of hidden preditive information from databases. Data mining applies onepts and tehniques from the fields of databases, mahine learning, algorithms, information retrieval, and statistis. Topis inlude: data warehousing, assoiation analysis, lassifiation, lustering, numeri predition, and seleted advaned data mining topis. Prerequisite: CSC 134 and STAT units. CSC 179. Software Testing and Quality Assurane. Testing, verifiation, validation, and ontrol of real-time and non-real-time software systems in the ontext of a software development lifeyle. Topis inlude: unit, integration and system testing; verifiation and validation (V&V), quality assurane, metris, and onfiguration management. Prerequisite: CSC units. CSC 180. Intelligent Systems. Theory and implementation of a variety of tehniques used to simulate intelligent behavior. Expert systems, fuzzy logi, neural networks, evolutionary omputation, and two-player game-tree searh will be overed in depth. Knowledge representation, pattern reognition, hybrid approahes, and handling unertainty will also be disussed. Prerequisite: CSC 130, CSC 132, MATH 031, STAT units. CSC 190. Senior Projet: Part I. First of a two-ourse sequene in whih student teams undertake a projet to develop and deliver a software produt. Approved projet sponsors must be from industry, government, a non-profit organization, or other area. Teams apply software engineering priniples in the preparation of a software proposal, a projet management plan and a software requirements speifiation. All tehnial work is published using guidelines modeled after IEEE doumentation standards. Oral and written reports are required. Leture one hour, laboratory three hours. Prerequisite: Senior status, passing sore on the WPE, ompleted CSC 130, CSC 131 and four additional 3-unit CSC upper division ourses that fulfill the major requirements (exluding CSC , 198, 199). 2 units. CSC 191. Senior Projet: Part II. Continuation of the group projet begun in CSC 190. Teams apply software engineering priniples to the design, implementation and testing of their software produt. All tehnial work is published using guidelines modeled after IEEE doumentation standards along with an appropriate user manual. Oral and written reports are required. Senior projet is ompleted with the suessful delivery, installation and demonstration of the software along with all approved doumentation. Leture one hour, laboratory three hours. Prerequisite: CSC units. CSC 192. Career Planning. Designed to help students learn more about the labor market and opportunities in the Computer Siene field. Students will examine their interests and onsider their goals, and learn how to ondut an effetive proative job searh. Strategies for long term areer growth will be identified. Prerequisite: CSC 190; may be taken onurrently. Graded Credit/No Credit. 1 unit. CSC 194. Computer Siene Seminar. Series of weekly seminars on Computer Siene topis. These topis over subjets not normally taught in the ourse of a shool year and they range from the very theoretial in Computer Siene through appliations to presentations by industry on working onditions, real world environment and job opportunities. Note: May be repeated for redit. Prerequisite: Upper division or graduate status in CSC. 1 unit. CSC 195. Fieldwork in Computer Siene. Direted observations and work experiene in omputer siene with firms in the industry or publi agenies. Supervision is provided by the instrutional staff and the ooperating agenies. Note: Faulty approval required. May be repeated for redit. Graded Credit/No Credit. 1-4 units. CSC 195A. Professional Pratie. Supervised employment in a professional engineering or omputer siene environment. Plaement arranged through the Career Center. Note: Requires satisfatory ompletion of the work assignment and a written report. Prerequisite: Instrutor permission. Graded Credit/No Credit units. CSC 195B. Professional Pratie. Supervised employment in a professional engineering or omputer siene environment. Plaement arranged through the Career Center. Note: Requires satisfatory ompletion of the work assignment and a written report. Prerequisite: Instrutor permission. Graded Credit/No Credit units. CSC 195C. Professional Pratie. Supervised employment in a professional engineering or omputer siene environment. Plaement arranged through the Career Center. Note: Requires satisfatory ompletion of the work assignment and a written report. Prerequisite: Instrutor permission. Graded Credit/No Credit units. CSC 195D. Professional Pratie. Supervised employment in a professional engineering or omputer siene environment. Plaement arranged through the Career Center. Note: Requires satisfatory ompletion of the work assignment and a written report. Prerequisite: Instrutor permission. Graded Credit/No Credit units. CSC 196. Experimental Offerings in Computer Siene. When a suffiient number of qualified students apply, one of the staff will ondut a seminar in some topi of omputer siene. Note: May be repeated for redit. 1-4 units. CSC 198. Co-urriular Ativities in Computer Siene. Students will provide tehnial assistane in labs, assist instrutors in grading oursework, or assist in other ativities related to the subjet matter and onerns of the department. Graded Credit/No Credit. 1-3 units. CSC 199. Speial Problems. Individual projets or direted reading in speified topis in omputer siene. Note: Open only to students who appear ompetent to arry on individual work; approval of faulty supervisor and advisor required. May be repeated for redit. Graded Credit/No Credit. 1-3 units. Graduate Courses CSC 201. Programming Language Priniples. Notations for the speifiation of programming language syntax and semantis; attribute, translational, operational, axiomati, algebrai, denotational, and ation semantis. Appliations of programming language syntax and programming language semantis. Use of meta languages to generate exeutable language definitions for language implementation, program transformation, program property analysis, and rapid software prototyping. Priniples of logi, funtional, and objet-oriented programming languages. Prerequisite: Fully Siene or Software Engineering. 3 units. CSC 204. Data Models for Database Management Systems. Study of file systems; file design tehniques suh as normalization; file utilities; file organizations (heap, sequential, indexed, diret, multiring); data models (entity relationship, various database management system [DBMS] models); relational algebra and the SQL relational query language; overview of transation proessing; introdution to network DBMS and IMS. Note: Not intended for students who have ompleted CSC 134 and CSC 174. Prerequisite: Fully lassified Software Engineering. 3 units. CSC 205. Computer Systems Struture. Overview of omputer systems struture, overing hierarhial struture from software and hardware points of view. Conepts of reloation, linking, and loading; hardware-software interfaes from both appliation program and operating system points of view. Various CPU strutures, inluding RISC and CISC mahines, survey of tightly and loosely-oupled arhiteture, introdution to pipelined, distributed, and parallel systems, omputer system ommuniation priniples inluding loal and wide-area networks onepts, and 226 / omputer siene alifornia state university, saramento

12 omputer siene various CAD tools and methodologies are introdued. Prerequisite: Fully Siene, Software Engineering or Computer Engineering. 3 units. CSC 206. Algorithms and Paradigms. Design and analysis of omputer algorithms and examples of their use in a wide variety of problem domains. Contemporary paradigms of omputing, inluding parallel and heuristi approahes. Theoretial limits of the algorithmi method. Prerequisite: Fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene or Software Engineering. 3 units. CSC 209. Researh Methodology. Researh methodology, problem formulation, and problem solving. Orientation to the requirements for Master s Thesis or Projet. Presentations on various researh topis. Prerequisite: Fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene or Software Engineering, passing sore on the WPE, ompletion of at least 12 units of 200-level ourses in Computer Siene. Graded Credit/No Credit. 1 unit. CSC 212. Bioinformatis: Data Integration and Algorithms. The appliation of information tehnology and omputer siene to biologial problems, in partiular to biomedial siene issues involving geneti sequenes. Algorithms and their appliations to DNA sequening and protein database searh; tools and tehniques for data integration to transform geneti sequening data into omprehensible information to study biologial proesses. Prerequisite: CSC 130, STAT 50, and graduate status; BIO 10 reommended. 3 units. CSC 214. Knowledge-Based Systems. Historial perspetive of knowledge-based systems and their relationship to artifiial intelligene. Conepts of knowledge representation and automated reasoning. Survey of expert systems in a variety of appliations in engineering and other fields. Implementation of expert systems and expert system shells. Prerequisite: Fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene or Software Engineering. 3 units. CSC 215. Artifiial Intelligene. Nature of intelligene and possibility of its realization on digital omputers via algorithmi and heuristi programming methods. Knowledge representation. Searh proedures. Problem-solving paradigms and simulation of ognitive proesses. Mahine learning. Natural language understanding, expert systems, and knowledge engineering. Image understanding. Future of artifiial intelligene and limits of mahine intelligene. Prerequisite: Fully Siene, Software Engineering or Computer Engineering. 3 units. CSC 219. Mahine Learning. Introdution to major paradigms and methods of mahine learning. Indutive learning, explanationbased learning, lassifier systems and geneti algorithms, analogial reasoning, ase-based learning, onnetionist learning, data driven approahes to empirial disovery, and basis of learning theory. Fous is on representative systems that have been built. Prerequisite: Fully Siene, Software Engineering or Computer Engineering. 3 units. CSC 230. Software System Engineering. Integration of managerial and tehnial ativities in system engineering that ontrol the ost, shedule, and tehnial ahievement of the developing software system. Appliation of the priniples, ativities, tasks and proedures of system engineering and software engineering to the development of a software system. Prerequisite: Fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene or Software Engineering; OR fully lassified graduate status in Computer Engineering and CSC units. CSC 231. Software Engineering Metris. Software quality and quantity metris, in software engineering. Measurement theory and metris. Metris inlude management metris, indiret and diret metris and preditive metris. Uses of metris inlude software ost and shedule estimates, model alibration, and software produtivity measurements. Metris tehniques inlude the Goal- Question-Metri approah, COCOMO, and funtion point analysis. Prerequisite: Fully Siene or Software Engineering. 3 units. CSC 232. Software Requirements Analysis and Design. Software engineering requirements inluding eliitation, analysis, speifiation, verifiation and management. Emphasizes IEEE software engineering requirements and standards and the onept of operations (ConOps) doument. Tehniques inlude strutured analysis, use ases and objet-oriented analysis. Prerequisite: Fully Siene or Software Engineering. 3 units. CSC 233. Advaned Software Engineering Projet Management. Advaned methods and proedures for managing a software development projet. Inludes projet planning, sheduling, and ost estimation, projet organizational types, staffing and training onsiderations, leading and motivating omputer personnel, and methods for measuring and ontrolling a projet. Emphasizes IEEE software engineering management standards and keys to projet suess. Prerequisite: Fully Siene or Software Engineering. 3 units. CSC 234. Software Verifiation and Validation. Verifiation and validation (V & V) tehniques to identify and resolve software problems and high-risk issues early in the software lifeyle. Appliation of V & V to all phases of the lifeyle proess. Inludes planning and reporting on the V & V effort. Topis also inlude software quality assurane and software testing. Prerequisite: Fully Siene or Software Engineering; OR fully Engineering and CSC units. CSC 235. Software Arhiteture. Software arhiteture styles. Conepts and ativities for software arhiteture design. Notations, models, and speifiation languages for software arhiteture design. Engineering disipline and guidane for software arhiteture design. Tehniques, methods, tools for designing, building, analyzing, and evaluating software arhiteture. Objet-oriented approah for software arhiteture design. Arhiteture-based software development. Management of software arhiteture design. Reuse of software arhiteture design. Prerequisite: Fully Siene or Software Engineering. 3 units. CSC 236. Formal Methods in Software Engineering. Introdution of basi onepts of formal methods in software engineering. Students will learn why and how formal methods should be used in the software development proess for delivering a quality produt. The following will be disussed: formal-methods-based software life-yle models; languages for software system speifiation; modeling and abstration of software systems; analysis and verifiation of system properties; software system refinement; formal semantis, program verifiation; objet-orientation of formal methods; systems and tools for the appliation of formal method, advanes of formal methods in software engineering. Prerequisite: Fully Siene or Software Engineering 3 units. CSC 237. Miroproessor Systems Arhiteture. Miroproessor/miroomputer arhiteture and hardware/software interfaing design. RISC v. CISC arhiteture in-depth, ase studies of several popular ommerial advaned 32-bit miroproessors. Miroomputer firmware arhiteture is disussed and illustrated with detailed examples. Term projet in whih students speify, design and build the hardware and firmware of a omputer system. Prerequisite: CSC units. CSC 238. Human-Computer Interfae Design. Issues involved in design of interation between people and omputers. Insight and experiene in key issues of HCI design. Emphasis on identifying issues and tradeoffs in interation design. Development and evaluation of alternative solutions to design problems. Prerequisite: Fully Siene or Software Engineering. 3 units. CSC 239. Advaned Operating Systems Priniples and Design. Advaned onepts of onurrent proesses, onurrent programming and operating systems. Virtual memory management systems, deadlok, file systems, operating system performane measurement and evaluation. Prerequisite: CSC units. alifornia state university, saramento omputer siene / 227

13 CSC 242. Computer-Aided Design Methodology for Computer Systems. Computer-aided design methodology; CAD tools for omputer design; alternatives for IC Chip design; the use of tools for shemati apture, iruit routing, PC board layout, CMOS VLSI design; priniples of operation of CMOS VLSI iruits; VLSI design projet. Prerequisite: CSC units. CSC 244. Database Design. Disusses the various omponents of general database systems. Implementation methods of the major data models hierarhial, network and relational of database systems will be disussed. Other topis inlude query language design, methods to gain reliability, protetion shemes, integrity, methods of oding data, performane onsiderations and other speial topis. Some atual database systems will be used for illustrative purposes. Prerequisite: CSC 174 or CSC units. CSC 245. Performane Modeling and Evaluation. Performane and ost measures; software and hardware performane monitors; data redution and evaluation; analyti and simulation models of hardware and program behavior; performane-ost trade-offs and resoure alloation. Prerequisite: Fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene or Software Engineering. 3 units. CSC 250. Computer Seurity and Privay. Information proessing ontrols; errors and fraud; software and hardware protetion; emphasis on ryptographi tehniques; disaster and atastrophe prevention. Prerequisite: Fully lassified graduate status in Computer Siene, Software Engineering or Computer Engineering. 3 units. CSC 251. Priniples of Compiler Design. Programming language translation, lexial analysis, syntax analysis inluding LR, LALR, and preditive tehniques. Semanti analysis inluding semanti speifiation. Code generation and optimization inluding ontrol and data flow analysis. Storage management. Error detetion and reovery. Prerequisite: CSC 151 or CSC units. CSC 255. Computer Networks. Computer networking fundamentals with emphasis on higher level protools and funtions. Network design onsiderations, software design and layering onepts, interfae design, routing and ongestion ontrol algorithms, internetworking, transport protool design, and end-toend ommuniation, session and appliation protools. Speifi examples of ommerial and international standards. Prerequisite: CSC 138 or CPE units. CSC 258. Distributed Systems. Coordination of deentralized autonomous omputer systems onneted by a ommuniation subnet to ahieve a ommon goal. Topis inlude arhitetures, message-passing, remote proedure alls, deadlok detetion, onurreny ontrol, repliation and error reovery, synhronization, resoure management, distributed database systems, languages, distributed algorithms, software fault tolerane and seurity issues, teahing strategy. Prerequisite: CSC 204 and fully lassified graduate status in Computer Computer Engineering. 3 units. CSC 273. Hierarhial Digital Design Methodology. Advaned logi modeling, simulation, and synthesis tehniques. Topis inlude modeling, simulation, and synthesis tehniques, using Hardware Desription Language (HDL s), Register Transfer Level (RTL) representation, high-level funtional partitioning, funtional verifiation and testing, omputer-aided logi synthesis, logial verifiation and testing, timing and delay analysis, automated plae and route proess, and design with Appliation Speifi Integrated Ciruits (ASICs) and programmable logi. Prerequisite: CSC 205, CPE 064, or equivalent. Cross-listed as EEE 273; only one may be ounted for redit. 3 units. CSC 275. Advaned Data Communiation Systems. Fundamental onepts, priniples and issues of data ommuniation systems. The ISO/OSI referene model is used as a vehile for disussion and emphasizes lower layer of the model. Speifi topis inlude: motivation and objetives, layered arhitetures, physial layer priniples and protools, data link and medium aess ontrol priniples and protools, iruit, paket and ell swithing, loal area network design priniples and performane omparisons, high speed networking, introdution to wide area network arhitetures. Typial examples and standards are ited for point-to-point, satellite, paket radio and loal area networks. Prerequisite: CSC 138 or CPE 138 or CSC 205. Not offered every semester. 3 units. CSC 280. Advaned Computer Arhiteture. Introdution to parallel arhiteture overing omputer lassifiation shemes, fine and oarse grain parallelism, proessor interonnetions, and performane issues of multiproessor systems. Inludes parallel and pipelined instrution exeution, struture of multiproessor systems, memory hierarhy and ohereny in shared memory systems, programming issues of multiproessor systems, arithmeti pipeline design, and design for testability. Prerequisite: CSC 205 and fully Siene or Software Engineering. Cross-listed as EEE 280; only one may be ounted for redit. 3 units. CSC 288. Speial Topis in Computer Siene. Contemporary topis in omputer siene will be offered as needed. Topis offered: 288A. Computer Arhiteture/ Computer Engineering 288B. Intelligent Systems 288C. Systems Software 288D. Software Engineering 288E. Database Management 288F. Network Communiations Note: May be repeated for redit with permission of the Graduate Coordinator. Prerequisite: Fully lassified Software Engineering or instrutor permission. 3 units. CSC 295. Fieldwork. Direted observations and work experiene in omputer siene with firms in the industry or publi agenies. Supervision is provided by the instrutional staff and the ooperating agenies. Note: Faulty approval required. May be repeated for redit. Graded Credit/No Credit. 1-3 units. CSC 296. Experimental Offerings in Computer Siene. When a suffiient number of qualified students are interested, one of the staff will ondut a seminar on some topi of Computer Siene. Note: May be repeated for redit. 1-4 units. CSC 299. Speial Problems. Any properly qualified student who wishes to pursue a problem of his own hoie may do so if the proposed subjet is aeptable to the member of the staff with whom he/she works and to his/her advisor. Note: May be repeated for redit. Graded Credit/No Credit. 1-3 units. CSC 500. Master s Thesis. Completion of a thesis approved for the Master s degree. Note: May be repeated for redit. Prerequisite: CSC 209; advaned to andiday. Graded Credit/No Credit. 1-5 units. CSC 502. Master s Projet. Completion of a projet approved for the Master s degree. Prerequisite: CSC 209; advaned to andiday. Graded Credit/No Credit. 1-2 units. 228 / omputer siene alifornia state university, saramento