Curriculum

(For current students: 2017 intake, 2016 intake, 2015 intake)

Programme Structure (for 2018 intake)

Courses in the programme are categorized into core courses and Electives (elective courses). The list of Electives is divided into two groups: Group I and Group II. To obtain the award of Master of Science in Computer Science, students are required to take

all 9 credit units of the core courses, and
21 credit units of Electives, including at least 3 credit units of Electives in Group I.

Some of the Electives are designated as Stream Core or Stream Elective of the Data Science (DS) Stream or Information Security (IS) Stream. Students may choose to

take any Electives and thereby no concentration on any stream, or
take the two DS Stream Core courses and at least one DS Stream Elective, thereby fulfilling the requirement of concentration on Data Science Stream, or
take the two IS Stream Core courses and at least one IS Stream Elective, thereby fulfilling the requirement of concentration on Information Security Stream.

Please refer to Taught Postgraduate Catalogue for more information of individual courses.

Core Courses - 9 credit units

Code	Title	Credit Units
CS5222	Computer Networks and Internets	3
CS5351	Software Engineering	3
CS5481	Data Engineering	3

Elective Courses - 21 credit units

Group I Electives - at least 3 credit units

Code	Title	Credit Units	Remarks
CS5188	Virtual Reality Technologies and Applications	3
CS5286	Algorithms & Techniques for Web Searching	3	DS Stream Elective
CS5293	Topics on Information Security	3	IS Stream Elective
CS5367	Computer Games Design	3
CS5487	Machine Learning: Principles and Practice	3	DS Stream Elective
CS5489	Machine Learning: Algorithms and Applications	3	(subject to approval)
CS6187	Vision and Language	3
CS6290	Privacy-enhancing Technologies	3	IS Stream Elective
CS6487	Topics in Machine Learning	3
CS6493	Natural Language Processing	3	(subject to approval)
CS6520	Project	6
CS6534	Guided Study	3	DS Stream Elective; IS Stream Elective

Group II Electives

Code	Title	Credit Units	Remarks
CS5182	Computer Graphics	3
CS5185	Multimedia Technologies and Applications	3
CS5187	Vision and Image	3
CS5282	Practical Optimization Algorithms and Techniques	3
CS5285	Information Security for eCommerce	3	IS Stream Core
CS5288	Cryptography: Theory and Practice	3	IS Stream Elective
CS5294	Information Security Technology Management	3	IS Stream Core
CS5296	Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice	3	DS Stream Elective
CS5348	Software Quality Engineering	3
CS5483	Data Warehousing and Data Mining	3	DS Stream Core
CS5486	Intelligent Systems	3
CS5488	Big Data Algorithms and Techniques	3	DS Stream Core
CS5491	Artificial Intelligence	3	(subject to approval)
CS6175	Virtual Reality and Game-Engine Technologies	3
EC5001	Introduction to eCommerce	3