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Number of Minimum Credit Hours to Register for Fall 2014 2015 Term
- RA or TA Assistantship Appointment - 8 credit hours
- Full Fellowship - 12 credit hours
- Combined RA or TA Assistantship Appointment + Full (tuition-waiver generating) Fellowship - 12 credit hours
- Combined RA or TA Assistantship Appointment + Partial Fellowship - 8 credit hours
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For your first semester, we recommend that you select courses that interest you and start to complete the "Breadth Requirement". In (see MS Planning Document - link above) In addition, we recommend that you choose a CS 598 Special Topics course with a professor that you might want to secure as your thesis advisor. Graduate students are free to register for any 400 or 500-level course. If there is a pre-requisite for a course, it is your responsibility to ensure you have the prior knowledge required for the course. In addition, 400-level courses are introductory graduate level courses and can be taken for either 3 or 4 credits. If you select the 4 credit hour 400-level course, the faculty will usually have you do a project or paper for the extra credit hour. All 500-level courses are taken for 4 credit hours.