All course work applied to the student's program of study must be completed with grades of B or better. The overall graduate average at UNF must be 3.0 or higher for the degree to be awarded.

Technical Core Requirement: (12 hours)

CEN 6016: Engineering of Software I CEN 6017: Engineering of Software II CIS 6516: Managing Software Projects and Personnel OR      MAN 6026: Project Management COP 6711: Database Engineering and Administration

Business Core Requirement *: (9 hours)

ISM 6021: Management of Information Technology MAN 6785: e-business Strategy MAR 6726: Marketing on the Internet: Strategies & Progs OR      MAN 6875: Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital * Each term a student enrolls in 1 or more business courses 3000-level or above, a $7.50 fee is assessed (for the Wall Street Journal online)

Major:

select 2 (6-8 hours) CAP 6100: Interface Design and Implementation CDA 6011: Web Engineering CIS 6302: Distributed and Internet Systems CDA 6506: Network Architecture & Client/Server Computing CEN 6070: Software Quality Assurance and Testing CIS 6101: Software Processes and Metrics COP 6735: Developments in Database Structures

Elective: (3 hours)

Chosen from among 5000/6000-level Computer and Information Sciences courses (subject to restrictions); with approval, up to 2 graduate courses supportive of the degree program may be transferred from elsewhere. Business 5000-level prerequisite may be used if management and accounting coursework was not taken as an undergraduate

Thesis: (6 hours)

The thesis requires that the student work under the direction of a thesis advisor drawn from the School of Computing graduate faculty. Normally, the student approaches a faculty member who has research interests in an area that the student is interested in. If the faculty member is willing to work with the student as thesis advisor, then the student and advisor identify a problem with research elements suitable for a Masters thesis and the student enrolls in the thesis course CIS 6970: Thesis (3) to develop the problem. The student reviews the work of others who have addressed elements of the thesis topic, preparing a short thesis prospectus which reviews this work and which describes the thesis problem. When the work has progressed sufficiently, the student and advisor identify two additional graduate faculty members to form a thesis committee. The student presents the prospectus to the thesis committee, which reviews the scope of the material and suggests ways to both focus and improve the thesis work. This may require 1 or more iterations before the thesis committee is satisfied. The student must prepare the thesis in accord with the School of Computing Thesis Guidelines and defend the thesis in a presentation attended by at least 5 members of the School of Computing graduate faculty. The student must enroll for at least 6 hours of CIS 6970, and must enroll for any term in which actively working with the thesis advisor (including the term that the thesis is defended). Since thesis work is research-oriented, no set time for completion is stipulated, so students pursuing this option must discipline themselves to make proress without the help of defined milestones. Thesis work orients towards "proof of concept" software development rather than a defined deliverable, and is expected to advance the state of the discipline.