Breadth
Before approving the Program of Study, the student's
Coursework Committee will try to determine Program of Study committee will determine whether the
student has proposed to develop sufficient breadth
in the choice of required coursework. Some faculty may consider this as breadth within computer
science ; while others may define it more broadly braodly to include
other disciplines.
Regardless of area, most faculty in the Department of
Computer Science strongly believe that all graduate
students graduate students should at least be exposed to one graduate level theory
course and one systems course, both at the graduate
leveland systems course. The most widely recommended theory course
is either CS 473G Algorithms473 or 573. Systems course recommendations
may vary depending on the student's research area and
interests. These expectations hold even if the student
has taken advanced systems and theory courses before
coming to UIUC.