Courses & Course Descriptions

SPRING 2020 - Subject to Change

• Course Schedule
• Course Descriptions
• Course Schedule (PDF)
• Course Descriptions (PDF)
• Eligibility/Prereq Registration Information (PDF)

Offering Pattern Exceptions - Academic Year 2019-2020
(See Offering Pattern - Other helpful links below)

PRELIMINARY Spring 2020 Course List

Spring 2020 - OVERRIDE Requests for CICS, COMPSCI and INFO courses

Process for students who require special permission to enroll in courses offered by the college.
There are CHANGES for some students, so please read Override Infomation to see how this affects you.

Override Information  Override form for Spring 2020 should open ~Nov 18.

The following courses are on SPIRE, but are not set-up correctly.  Access to section will be delayed temporarily (no override requests/registration) until change is approved by the Faculty Senate and on SPIRE:

• COMPSCI 590A System Defense and Test, 3 credits
  • LEC 01 #51562 (UNIV section for Undergrads only):  Prerequisite - Senior and Junior CS Majors with COMPSCI 460 (or COMPSCI 597N or COMPSCI 660) with a grade of C or better.

The following courses are NOT on SPIRE.  Registration is by override although course needs Faculty Senate approval.  Submit override request when form opens ~Nov 18:

• COMPSCI H311 Intro Algorithms (colloq), 1 credit
  • COL 01 #xxxxx (UNIV section for Undergrads only):  Senior and Junior CHC Majors Only with COMPSCI 187 and COMPSCI 250 (or MATH 455), both with a C or better (or completed COMPSCI 311 with a grade of B or better).

The following courses are on SPIRE.  Access to course may be delayed temporarily (no override requests/registration) until the course set up is finished on SPIRE:

• COMPSCI 692T Seminar - Distributed Machine Learning and Data Mining, 1-3 credits
  • SEM 01 #51792 (UNIV section for Grads only; 3 credits):  CS Grads only.
  • SEM 02 #51793 (UNIV section for Grads only; 1 credit):  CS Grads only.

  The following courses are not on SPIRE.  No override requests/registration until approved by the Faculty Senate and on SPIRE:

• COMPSCI 590J Cyber Effects, 3 credits
  • LEC 01 #xxxxx (UWW/CPE section for Grads only):  CS and ECE Grads only.  Other graduate students with permission of instructor.  Registration only via UWW (not on override form).
  • LEC 01 #xxxxx (UNIV section for Undergrads only):  Seniors and Juniors with COMPSCI 230 (or ECE 322) and COMPSCI 460 (or ECE 371), both with a grade of C or better.  Other Seniors/Juniors with permission of instructor.
  • LEC 02 #xxxxx (UNIV section for Grads only):  MS-CS Grads only.

Fall 2019

• Course Schedule
• Course Descriptions
• Course Schedule (PDF)
• Course Descriptions (PDF)
• Eligibility/Prereq Registration Information (PDF)

Other helpful links:

• Course Offering Plan
• Previous Semester CS Schedules and Descriptions
• Final Exam Schedule
• Classroom Capacities
• Login SPIRE

• Registration Information from the Registrar

Courses outside the College

Additional computer science-related courses are also offered in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMass and at nearby Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges. The Five College Course Catalog combines course schedule information from these colleges as well as UMass.

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts
• Department of Computer Science, Amherst College
• School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College
• Department of Computer Science, Mount Holyoke College
• Department of Computer Science, Smith College