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Applicants with a variety of backgrounds in computing science will be considered. A fully qualified student should have knowledge at the undergraduate level equivalent to having completed the required courses in the B.Sc. program with a major in Computing by Queen's.
The School encourages the enrolment of students from other disciplines in the M.Sc. program. They must have an honours bachelor or equivalent degree with high standing and some computing science or equivalent experience. Such a student is accepted as a preparatory student and undertakes a preliminary year of study that fulfills the background requirements. This is an intensive year of study designed for first- class students who are highly motivated to learn a second discipline. On successful completion of the preliminary year a student may undertake either the research or non-research pattern degree program described below. Applicants whose background is lacking only some of the above-mentioned material will be assigned a program of study on an individual basis.
The degree program is based either on a research or a non-research pattern. The requirements for the research pattern degree are: CISC 897 Research Methods in Computer Science and four half-courses at the 800 level (excluding CISC 810 Fundamentals Of Comput. Scienc and CISC 885 Professional Development in Ultra Large-scale Software Systems), together with a thesis which is considered to constitute one half of the work for the degree. Students in the ULSS stream take CISC 885 Professional Development in Ultra Large-scale Software Systems in place of CISC 897 Research Methods in Computer Science.
The non-research M.Sc. program is based either on a project pattern or a course work pattern. Under the project pattern program, a student is required to complete six half course credits at the 800 level (excluding CISC 810 Fundamentals Of Comput. Scienc), one of which may be CISC 897 Research Methods in Computer Science, and a project (CISC 898 Master's Project). At least one course must be chosen from each of the following areas: Computer Systems, Theory of Computation, and Applications. The courses currently offered in these areas are listed below. The project culminates in a written report which will be examined by a board consisting of the supervisor, one other member of the department and the head of the department (or delegate).
The requirements for the course work pattern program are eight half course credits at the 800 level (excluding CISC 810 Fundamentals Of Comput. Scienc and CISC 897 Research Methods in Computer Science). At least one course must be chosen from each of the following areas: Computer Systems, Theory of Computation, and Applications.
The selection of courses is subject to School approval and at the beginning of the program the student is required to submit a plan of study to the Coordinator of Graduate Studies.
Programs will be selected in consultation with the Coordinator of Graduate Studies.
Double Numbered Courses
The following courses are offered jointly with senior undergraduate courses:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| CISC 832 | Database Management Systems | 3.00 |
| CISC 841 | Advanced Computer Architecture | 3.00 |
| CISC 854 | Graphics (A) | 3.00 |
| CISC 858 | Programming Lang Processors (S) | 3.00 |
Computer Systems Courses
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| CISC 825 | Paradigms of Wireless and Mobile Networking | 3.00 |
| CISC 833 | Advanced Operating Systems | 3.00 |
| CISC 834 | Topics in Computer Science | 3.00 |
| CISC 835 | Topics in Computer Systems | 3.00 |
| CISC 836 | Topics in Software Systems | 3.00 |
| CISC 837 | Computer Networks | 3.00 |
| CISC 838 | Software Engineering | 3.00 |
| CISC 841 | Advanced Computer Architecture | 3.00 |
| CISC 842 | Parallel Lang. & Architectures | 3.00 |
| CISC 845 | Requirements Specs & Design | 3.00 |
| CISC 846 | Software Design Methodologies | 3.00 |
| CISC 847 | Software Verific. & Validation | 3.00 |
| CISC 848 | Software Reliability & Secur | 3.00 |
| CISC 853 | Verification Of Software Syst. | 3.00 |
| CISC 858 | Programming Lang Processors (S) | 3.00 |
| CISC 860 | Topics: Structure & Design of Programming Languages | 3.00 |
| CISC 880 | Mining Software Engineering Data | 3.00 |
| CISC 883 | Introduation to Ultra Large-scale Softward Systems | 3.00 |
| CISC 884 | Practicum in Ultra Large-scale Softeware Systems | 3.00 |
Theory of Computation Courses
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| CISC 865 | Intro to Programming Language Theory (T) | 3.00 |
| CISC 868 | Computational Geometry (T) | 3.00 |
| CISC 869 | Adv. Topics-Program.-Language | 3.00 |
| CISC 870 | Cryptography | 3.00 |
| CISC 871 | Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Algorithms | 3.00 |
| CISC 872 | Parallel Algorithms | 3.00 |
| CISC 876 | Computational Complexity (T) | 3.00 |
| CISC 879 | Topics in Theoretical Aspects of Computing | 3.00 |
Applications Courses
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| CISC 832 | Database Management Systems | 3.00 |
| CISC 839 | Topics in Information Systems | 3.00 |
| CISC 850 | Topics in Computer Applications and Algorithms I | 3.00 |
| CISC 854 | Graphics (A) | 3.00 |
| CISC 856 | Reinforcement Learning | 3.00 |
| CISC 857 | Image Processing | 3.00 |
| CISC 859 | Pattern Recognition (A) | 3.00 |
| CISC 861 | Advanced Computer Graphics (A) | 3.00 |
| CISC 866 | Introduction to Cybersecurity | 3.00 |
| CISC 873 | Data Mining (A) | 3.00 |
| CISC 874 | Neural and Cognitive Computing | 3.00 |
| CISC 875 | Bioinformatics | 3.00 |
| CISC 877 | Developing Digital Games | 3.00 |
| CISC 878 | Topics in Computer Applications and Algorithms ll | 3.00 |
| CISC 881 | Topics in Biomedical Computing I | 3.00 |
| CISC 882 | Topics in Biomed Computing II | 3.00 |
| CISC 888 | Advanced Research in Human-Computer Interaction | 3.00 |