Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 19:42:44 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 20:26:07 GMT Content-length: 6659 MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE

IN THE

COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY


FALL 1996

INTRODUCTION

These guidelines describe departmental requirements for the Master of Science degree program in Computer Science (COMSC) at Oklahoma State University. Admission requirements are also included.

The guidelines stated here are those of the Computer Science Department. Certain other regulations are imposed by the Oklahoma State University Graduate School and are described in the Oklahoma State University Catalog. It is the student's responsibility to satisfy all requirements of the Computer Science Department and the Graduate College.

Graduate students are expected to participate in the professional activities of the department. This includes attending seminars and colloquia, and suggesting improvements in curriculum and teaching.


REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION

In addition to the requirements listed in the Catalog, students must satisfy the following requirements:
  1. a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university;
  2. successful completion of an 8-hour calculus sequence;
  3. either a "B" average or better during the last two years of studies or a substantial demonstration of mature performance in an industrial environment;
  4. a TOEFL score of 550 or better for international students;
  5. an undergraduate major in computer science or significant course work or work experience in computer science.
A student well prepared for M.S. study should have a good background in mainstream computer science. This includes experience with procedural programming languages (e.g., Ada, C, Modula, Pascal, or Smalltalk), and non-procedural languages (e.g., Lisp, Prolog, or ML); background in computer architecture or assembly language, data structures, operating systems, software engineering, and related mathematics (e.g. mathematical logic, discrete mathematics, and calculus). A student who lacks experience in some of these areas may be admitted with deficiencies listed.

The application cannot be considered until all of these materials are received by the department.

M.S. DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

  1. The M.S. degree requires a minimum of 30 credit hours of graduate-level course work. The course work must include:

    The student must receive a grade of "B" or better for each course used to satisfy the above requirements. However, up to a maximum of two "C" grades will be accepted, if they are offset by "A" grades in other courses. Only one "C" is accepted in a core course, and it must be offset by an "A" in a core course.

  2. Prior to enrolling in the 17th hour of course work, a student must select a graduate faculty member from within the department to serve as the student's principal advisor. The principal advisor helps the student formulate an advisory committee. The advisory committee is a group of three graduate faculty members (including the principal advisor); the committee may include up to one faculty member from outside the department. The committee members approve the student's Plan of Study and give final approval for the student's degree. The advisory committee must approve the student's performance on the Oral Qualifying Exam and the Final Oral Exam. The advisory committee can be changed by the student by submitting a new plan of study before the Oral Qualifying Exam. After the exam, any changes in the committee must be approved by the Graduate Committee.

UNRESOLVED ISSUES

Any issues not covered in this document shall be resolved by the departmental Graduate Committee in consultation with the graduate faculty in the Computer Science Department.

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