Database and Information Systems Track

Objectives

Prepares students to apply database principles, algorithms, and optimization techniques to design, build, and manage current and future database and information systems.

All major required courses, all track requirements and track selectives, and their pre-requisites, regardless of department, must be completed with a grade of C or better.

Required Courses (4)

Course	Title
CS 34800	Information Systems
CS 38100	Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms
CS 44800	Introduction to Relational Databases
CS 37300 or CS 47300	Data Mining and Machine Learning or Web Information Search & Management

Choose at least one course from each of the following three (3) categories.

Electives

Course	Title
	Computing Systems - 1 From the Following List
CS 35200	Compilers: Principles and Practice
CS 35300	Principles of Concurrency and Parallelism
CS 35400	Operating Systems
	Information Assurance - 1 From the Following List
CS 35500	Introduction to Cryptography
CS 42600	Computer Security
	Related Studies - 1 From the Following List
CS 37300	Data Mining and Machine Learning
CS 42200	Computer Networks
CS 47100	Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
CS 47300	Web Information Search & Management
CS 47800	Introduction to Bioinformatics
CS 48300	Introduction to the Theory of Computation
CS 49000 or CS 49700  or EPICS 41100/41200	Senior Project   Honors Research Project   Honors Research Project

Note: Senior Project must be at least 3 credits and approved by the track chair. (Examples: EPICS 41100/41200 Senior Design, CS 49000, CS 49700 Honors Research Project)

Note: No course can be counted both for required and elective credit. This is true for all tracks.