Graduate Courses

The following list contains all graduate courses that can appear on the Computer Science schedule, including selected courses offered by other departments. (The schedules for the 2023-2024 academic year are available, together with schedules for previous years.)  Please note that some courses are experimental and may not be offered on a regular basis. These may be subject to change each academic year.

Regular Courses:

• CS 515 Parallel Programming
• CS 518 Cultural Competence in Computing
• CS 530 Internet, Web, & Cloud Systems
• CS 531 Introduction to Performance Measurement, Modeling and Analysis
• CS 532 Operating System Foundations
• CS 533 Concepts of Operating Systems
• CS 535 Accelerated Computing with GPU's and Xeon Phi
• CS 538 Computer Architecture
• CS 540 Deep Learning: Computational Structures and Programming
• CS 541 Artificial Intelligence
• CS 545 Machine Learning
• CS 547 Computer Graphics
• CS 551 Numerical Computation
• CS 554 Software Engineering
• CS 557 Functional Programming
• CS 558 Programming Languages
• CS 563 Intro to Web Development
• CS 564 Front End Web Development
• CS 565 Full Stack Web Development
• CS 566 Voice Assistants
• CS 569 Scholarship Skills for Computer Science & Engineering
• CS 576 Computer Security Research Seminar
• CS 577 Modern Language Processors
• CS 578 Programming Language Semantics
• CS 580 Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis
• CS 581 Theory of Computation
• CS 584 Algorithm Design & Analysis
• CS 585 Cryptography
• CS 586 Introduction to Database Management Systems
• CS 587 Database Management Systems Implementation
• CS 588 Cloud & Cluster Data Management
• CS 589 Blockchain Development & Security
• CS 590 Introduction to Multimedia Computing and Networking
• CS 591 Introduction to Computer Security
• CS 592 Malware Reverse Engineering
• CS 593 Digital Forensics
• CS 594 Internetworking Protocols
• CS 595 Web and Cloud Security
• CS 596 Network Security
• CS 658 Programming Languages
• CS 669 Scholarship Skills for Computer Science & Engineering
• CS 676 Computer Security Research Seminar
• CS 677 Modern Language Processors
• CS 678 Programming Language Semantics
• CS 684 Algorithm Design & Analysis

Special Topic Courses (Active):

• CS 510 Top: Advanced Topics in C++ Programming
• CS 510 Top: Advanced Topics in Concurrency
• CS 510 Top: Advanced Topics in Program Verification
• CS 510 Top: Adventures in Natural Language Processing
• CS 510 Top: Code Large Language Models
• CS 510 Top: Code Reading & Review
• CS 510 Top: Programming Language Compilation
• CS 510 Top: Computational Photography
• CS 510 Top: Computer Game Design
• CS 510 Top: Computer Vision and Deep Learning
• CS 510 Top: Computers, Sound and Music
• CS 510 Top: Contemporary Software Development with Java and Android
• CS 510 Top: Data Clustering
• CS 510 Top: Data Engineering
• CS 510 Top: Ethics in Artificial Intelligence
• CS 510 Top: Exploring Fractals
• CS 510 Top: Formal Proof Foundations
• CS 510 Top: Foundations of Computer Vision
• CS 510 Top: Foundations of Emerging Technologies
• CS 510 Top: Generative Security Applications
• CS 510 Top: Graphical Models for Optimization and Learning
• CS 510 Top: Introduction to Computational Imaging
• CS 510 Top: Introduction to Computational Photography
• CS 510 Top: Introduction to Data Mining
• CS 510 Top: Introduction to Healthcare Data Analytics
• CS 510 Top: Introduction to Privacy-aware Computing
• CS 510 Top: Introduction to Quantum Computing
• CS 510 Top: Large Language Models
• CS 510 Top: Mobile and Wireless Networks
• CS 510 Top: Mobile Health
• CS 510 Top: Mobile Health in the COVID Era
• CS 510 Top: Natural Language Processing
• CS 510 Top: Networked Markets
• CS 510 Top: Operating System Internals
• CS 510 Top: Programming Language Compilation
• CS 510 Top: Proof Assistants and Program Verification
• CS 510 Top: Reinforcement Learning
• CS 510 Top: Rust for Small Systems Programming
• CS 510 Top: Rust Programming
• CS 510 Top: Rust Web Development
• CS 510 Top: Secure System Administration and DevOps
• CS 510 Top: The Joy of Coding with Java and Android
• CS 510 Top: Unconventional Cameras
• CS 510 Top: Usability Engineering
• CS 510 Top: Wireless Networks and Applications
• CS 610 Top: Computational Photography
• CS 610 Top: Graphical Models for Optimization and Learning
• CS 510 Top: Virtual Reality

Other Courses:

• CS 520 Object-Oriented Programming and Design
• CS 542 Advanced Artificial Intelligence: Combinatorial Games
• CS 543 Advanced Artificial Intelligence: Combinatorial Search
• CS 546 Advanced Topics in Machine Learning
• CS 549 Computational Geometry
• CS 550 Parallel Algorithms
• CS 552 Building Software Systems with Components
• CS 553 Design Patterns
• CS 555 Software Specification and Verification
• CS 556 Software Implementation and Testing
• CS 559 Software Measurement & Models
• CS 560 Human-Computer Interaction
• CS 561 Open Source Software Development Laboratory
• CS 562 Advanced Open Source Software Engineering
• CS 567 The Wireless Web
• CS 568 Functional Logic Programming
• CS 570 Machine Learning Seminar
• CS 572 Operating System Internals
• CS 575 Computer Systems Analysis
• CS 579 Formal Verification of Hardware/Software Systems
• CS 582 Theory of Computation: Advanced Topics
• CS 583 Automata and Formal Languages
• CS 597 Sensor Networks
• CS 598 Introduction to Wireless Network Protocols
• CS 653 Design Patterns
• CS 655 Software Specification and Verification
• CS 656 Software Implementation and Testing
• CS 659 Software Measurement & Models
• CS 668 Functional Logic Programming
• CS 672 Operating System Internals

Other Special Topic Courses:

• CS 510 Top: Advanced Functional Programming
• CS 510 Top: Advanced Java Programming
• CS 510 Top: Algorithms Coding
• CS 510 Top: Generative AI
• CS 510 Top: Introduction to HCI
• CS 510 Top: Introduction to Visual Computing
• CS 510 Top: Languages and Low-Level Programming
• CS 510 Top: Markets and the Internet
• CS 510 Top: Modern Agile and Other XP Software Engineering
• CS 510 Top: Modern Embedded Computing
• CS 510 Top: Network Security
• CS 510 Top: Practicum in Asynchronous Systems and Algorithms
• CS 510 Top: Software Design Patterns
• CS 510 Top: Spoken Language Interfaces
• CS 510 Top: Theorem Proving and Program Verification
• CS 510 Top: Topics in Software Validation
• CS 510 Top: Unit Test Branching Strategy
• CS 510 Top: User Interfaces
• CS 510 Top: Compilers and Interpreters

To review course descriptions of previously offered courses, please contact the instructor or review the PSU Bulletin.