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IT Graduate Core
To acquire a breadth of IT experience, master's degree students take one course in each of the five Core areas listed below.
If students have previously completed a Core course at Rensselaer or elsewhere, they fulfill the Core requirement by taking one of the advanced courses noted below.
For individual course content, the 2010-2011 Rensselaer Catalog is available as a series of Adobe PDF documents. You may download the entire catalog or just the course description section of the catalog.
| Required Core Courses |
| IT Core Area |
Course # |
Course Title |
When Offered |
| Database Systems |
CSCI-4380 |
Database Systems |
Fall/Spring |
| Networking |
ECSE-4670 |
Computer Communication Networks |
Fall |
| Software Design |
CSCI-4440 |
Software Design & Documentation |
Fall/Spring |
| ECSE-6770 |
Software Engineering I |
Fall |
| Management of Technology |
ITWS-6300 |
Business Issues for Engineers and Scientists |
Fall/Spring |
| Human-Computer Interaction |
COMM-6420 |
Foundations of HCI Usability |
Fall |
| COMM-696X |
Human Media Interation |
Spring |
| Advanced Core options for those students who have already completed a Core Course |
| IT Core Area |
Course # |
Course Title |
When Offered |
| Database Systems |
CSCI-6390
ITWS-696X
ITWS-696X
ITWS-696X
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Database Mining
Data Science
Semantic E-Science
X-Informatics
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Fall
Fall
Fall
Spring
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| Networking |
CSCI-696X
ECSE-6600
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Cryptography and Network Security I
Internet Protocols |
Fall
Spring |
| Software Design |
CSCI-6500
ECSE-6780
ITWS-696X
ITWS-696X
ITWS-696X |
Distributed Computing Over Internet
Software Engineering II
Data Science
Semantic E-Science
X-Informatics |
Fall
Fall
Fall
Fall
Spring |
| Management of Technology |
MGMT-6080
MGMT-6140
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Networks, Innovation and Value Creation
Information System for Management |
Fall
Spring |
| Human-Computer Interaction |
COMM-6620 COMM-6750 |
Information Architecture
Communication Design for the WWW |
Spring
Fall |
| Capstone Course |
CAPSTONE |
ITWS-6800 |
Information Technology & Decision Systems Capstone (Required) |
Spring |
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