Michael E. Cotterell's Degree Progress (Ph.D.)

Based on the requirements found at http://cs.uga.edu/students/gradprograms/phdcs.html.

Preliminary Focus

The preliminary focus may consist of up to 12 semester hours of resident graduate coursework. Coursework necessary for the preliminary focus requirement equates to core competency.

  1. Theory
    • CSCI 6610 – Automata and Formal Languages (Dr. Canfield) (Spring 2012) (IP)
  2. Software Design completed
    • CSCI 6050 – Software Engineering (Dr. Kochut) (Fall 2011) (A)
  3. System Design
    • Undecided…

Primary Focus

The primary focus consists of at least 37 semester hours of resident graduate coursework.

  • at least 8 hours of CSCI graduate coursework which includes 4 hours of graduate student only coursework,
    • CSCI 6210 – Simulation and Modeling (Dr. Miller) (Fall 2011) (A)
  • at least 16 hours of CSCI 8000-level coursework,
    • CSCI 8380 – Advanced Topics in Information Systems (Dr. Arpinar) (Spring 2012) (IP)
  • at least 1 hour of CSCI 8990 Research Seminar,
  • at least 6 hours of coursework in a doctoral minor, or additional CSCI graduate coursework, and
  • at least 6 hours of CSCI 9300 Doctoral Dissertation.