A plan should be submitted and approved by all computer science faculty. Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.) Repeatable, maximum concurrent enrollment is two times.

Prerequisites: CS 301. Study operating systems history, concepts/structure and design; process, processor, memory, file system and input/output management; and representative operating systems.

Prerequisite: CS 440. Study data communications; network structure, design and architectures; network services and standardization; and respective networks all in the framework of the OSI model.

Prerequisite: CS 301. Study graphics theory and applications including the description and transformation of world, viewpoint, eye and screen coordinates, two and three dimensional graphics and hidden line algorithms.

Senior or above. A significant computer project will be developed and implemented under the guidance of a computer science professor. A project proposal should be submitted and approved by all computer science faculty. Repeatable, maximum of eight credits.