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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 2008-2009 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 |
| Core Area |
Course # |
Course Title |
When Offered |
| Management of Technology |
ITEC-6300 |
Business Issues for Engineers and Scientists |
Fall/Spring |
| Database Systems |
CSCI-4380 |
Database Systems |
Fall/Spring |
| Networking |
ECSE-4670 |
Computer Communication Networks |
Fall |
| Software Design |
ECSE-6770 |
Software Engineering I |
Fall |
| Human-Computer Interaction |
COMM-6420 |
Foundations of HCI Usability |
Fall |
| Advanced Core options for those students who have already completed a Core Course |
| Core Area |
Course # |
Course Title |
When Offered |
| Management of Technology |
MGMT-6140
MGMT-6080 |
Information System for Management
Networks, Innovation and Value Creation |
Spring
Fall |
| Database Systems |
DSES-6520
CSCI-6390 |
Enterprise Database Systems
Data mining
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Spring
Fall
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| Networking |
ECSE-6600
CSCI-696X |
Internet Protocols
Cryptography and Network Security I |
Spring
Fall
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| Software Design |
ECSE-6780 |
Software Engineering II |
Spring |
| Human-Computer Interaction |
COMM-696X COMM-6750 |
Information Architecture
Communication Design for the WWW |
Spring
Fall |
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