You must adhere to one of the following breadth/depth requirements:

• Take at least 2 courses from at least 2 tracks, and at least 1 course from 3 tracks
• Take at least one course in 5 tracks

The available tracks are listed below:

Applied Distributed Systems Track

• CIS 630 Enterprise Application Development
• CIS 631 Distributed Object Systems
• CIS 632 Mobile Computing

Artificial Intelligence Track

• CIS 665 Artificial Intelligence Languages and Applications
• CIS 666 Topics in Artificial Intelligence
• CIS 667 Bioinformatics

Database Track

• CIS 611 Relational Database Systems
• CIS 612 Advanced Topics in Database Systems

Multimedia and Graphics Track

• CIS 657 Computer Graphics and Imaging
• CIS 658 Multimedia Computing

Networks Track

• CIS 554 Data Communications and Networking
• CIS 675 Information Security
• CIS 676 Computer Networks

Programming Languages Track

• CIS 524 Comparative Programming Languages
• CIS 650 Compiler Design

Software Engineering Track

• CIS 634 Object-oriented Software Engineering
• CIS 635 Software Engineering Metrics, Economics and Management

Theory and Algorithms Track

• CIS 590 Foundations of Computing
• CIS 606 Analysis of Algorithms

* Note: Any 600-level course, including CIS 693 and CIS 694, but excluding CIS 600, CIS 601, CIS 620, CIS 690, CIS 698, and CIS 699, can be used to satisfy the breadth requirement, even if it is not listed in a track.

No more than 5 credit hours of CIS 698 (Independent Study) will be accepted towards the 31/33 hours required for the degree (this includes CIS 690, Internship, or CIS 698 taken for student internship).