MSIS students may enroll in the following approved electives so long as the course pre-requisites have been met. Courses not on this list can only be taken with explicit signed permission from the MS-IS graduate coordinator.

Information Systems (INFS)

601   Operating Systems Theory and Practice
623   Classical and Web Information Retrieval
640   Introduction to Electronic Commerce
650   Development Frameworks for Information System Applications
697   Topics in Information Systems
740   Database Programming for the World Wide Web
750   Application Frameworks for Windowed Information Systems
755   Data Warehousing & Mining
760   Advanced Database Management
764   Object-Oriented Database Systems
770   Knowledge Management for E-Business
795   Special Topics in Data Mining Applications
796   Directed Readings in Information Systems
797   Advanced Topics in Information Systems

Information Security and Assurance (ISA)

562   Information Security Theory and Practice
640   Programming Language Security
656   Network Security
673   Operating Systems Security
674   Intrusion Detection
681   Secure Software Design
697   Topics in Information Security
763   Security Protocol Analysis
764   Security Experimentation
765   Database & Distributed Systems Security
767   Secure Electronic Commerce

Software Engineering (SWE)

619   Software Construction
620   Software Requirements, Analysis/Specification*
621   Software Design
623   Formal Methods and Models
625   Software Project Management
626   Software Project Lab
630   Software Engineering Economics
631   Object-Oriented Design Patterns
632   User Interface Design & Development
637   Software Test & Quality Assurance
641   Systems Architecture for Large-Scale System
642   Software Engineering for World Wide Web
645   Component-based SWE Development
699   Special topics in SWE
720   Advanced Software Requirements
721   Reusable Software Architectures
723   Precise Modeling
763   Software Engineering Experimentation
781   Secure Software Design & Programming

* Should not be taken unless student is replacing INFS 622 as a part of the SWE Certificate. Credit will not be given for both INFS 622 and SWE 620. Only three hours of credits will be awarded.

Computer Science (CS)

540   Language Processors
580   Artificial Intelligence Introduction
583   Analysis of Algorithms
750   Theory & Applications of Data Mining
782   Machine Learning
785   Knowledge Acquisition/Problem Solving

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

646   Cryptography & Computer Network Security
746   Secure Telecommunication Systems

Operations Research (OR)

540   Management Science
541   Deterministic Models
542   Stochastic Models

Statistics (STAT)

544   Applied Probability
554   Applied Statistics
662   Multivariate Statistical Methods
663   Statistical Graphics & Data Exploration
664   Bayesian Inference & Decision Analysis
674   Survey Sampling II

Systems Engineering (SYST)

520   Systems Design and Integration
530   Systems Management and Evaluation
542   Decision Support Systems Engineering
664   Bayesian Inference and Decision Analysis

Note

A thesis option is available; students may elect to complete a thesis for up to 6 hours of elective credits.

Students may earn a Certificate in Software Engineering by replacing the INFS 622 core course with SWE 620, and satisfying the rest of the SWE Certificate Requirements.

For Further Information

Additional information on the program is available from the MSIS Student Advisor (iseadvsr@gmu.edu)

Financial aid information is available at the GMU Office of Financial Aid