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COSC 732 Advanced Data Warehousing and Data Mining

Multimedia Technology/Computer Vision
COSC 518 Computer Graphics I
COSC 618 Compute Graphics II
COSC 619 Image Processing I
COSC 629 Virtual Reality and Its Applications
COSC 719 Image Processing II
COSC 729 Advanced Virtual Reality Systems

Scientific Computing
COSC 523 Logic, Computability, and Automata I
COSC 541 Numerical Analysis I
COSC 623 Logic, Computability, and Automata II
COSC 641 Numerical Analysis II
COSC 675 Applied Combinatorics and Graph Theory
COSC 676 Queuing Theory in Computer Science
COSC 678 Modeling and Simulation
COSC 771 Numerical Optimization

COSC 890 -899 Selected Topics - could be added to any one of the knowledge
areas, but will not be included in the comprehensive examination.

Dissertation area (requires 12 credits)
COSC 900- 909 Dissertation

The Qualifying Examination
The Qualifying examination is the first examination the doctoral student
has to take as soon as they are done with the five core courses. The
examination will cover all the five core courses. Students have to
advance to candidacy in order to qualify to take the Qualifying
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Examination. Students must take the Qualifying Examination during the
first two years and pass the examination by the third year. The
Qualifying Examination is a written examination that is offered every
semester. It is offered on the second Friday in November during the Fall
semester, and on the second Friday in April during the Spring semester.
Students have to pass the examination in order to continue the doctoral
program and students who fail on the second attempt will be
automatically dismissed from the doctoral program.

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