Curriculum
The computational science foundation courses are designed to take students from diverse majors and prepare them to successfully enter the computational science core. The computational science core is designed to give students a thorough grounding in the fundamental tools and methods necessary for a research career in computational science. The core courses are sequenced so as to prepare students to take the elective courses.

Core Courses:  Total credits:       39 hours
 The computational science foundation courses are designed to take students from diverse majors and prepare them to successfully enter the computational science core. The computational science core is designed to give students a thorough grounding in the fundamental tools and methods necessary for a research career in computational science. The core courses are sequenced so as to prepare students to take the elective courses.

Foundation Courses 9 credit hours
COSC 6100 Fundamentals of Computational Science 3 credits
MATH 6500 Fundamentals of  Scientific Computing 3 credits
CSCI 6300 Fundamentals of  Programming Languages 3 credits

Computational Science Core 30 credit hours
COSC 7800 Teaching Internship 3 credits
COSC 7950 Research Seminar in Computational Science  2 credits
CSCI 7500 Databases and Visualization 4 credits
CSCI 7200 Scientific Programming 4 credits
MATH 7300 Numerical Methods  3 credits
MATH 7400 Computational Statistics 3 credits
MATH 7800 Parallel Computing 4 credits
MATH 7100 Applied Computational Science 4 credits
MATH 7750 Mathematical Modeling 3 credits

Electives:  Total credits:       15 hours

In consultation with the major professor and the dissertation committee, the student:
Must take a minimum of 15 hours of 6000/7000 credit within science departments;
Must select 3 courses from the following list;
MATH 6720 Advanced Differential Equations
MATH 6300 Optimization
MATH 7450 Mathematical Models in Biology
CHEM 7720 Advanced Topics in Physical Chemistry
CHEM 7400 Computational Chemistry I
CHEM 7410 Computational Chemistry II
PHYS 7400 Computational Physics I
PHYS 7410 Computational Physics II
BIOL 6450 Advances in Molecular Genetics
BIOL 6366 Biostatistical Analysis
BIOL 6390 Advanced Cell/Molecular Biology
BIOL 6760 Bioinformatics
BIOL 7400 Computational Biology I
BIOL 7410 Computational Biology II
CSCI 6100 Analysis of Algorithms
CSCI 6130 Topics in Parallel Processing
CSCI 7350 Data Mining

Directed Research:  Total Credits      6 hours
Students will complete a minimum of 6 credit hours of directed research in Computational Science prior to advancement to candidacy.

COSC 7900 Directed Research in Computational Science

Research/Dissertation: Total Credits     12 hours

 Every student in the proposed Ph.D. in Computational Science will be required to undertake, complete, and successfully defend a dissertation which will be interdisciplinary in nature.  Students are only allowed to enroll in Dissertation Research following their advancement to candidacy after successful completion of a qualifying exam.

COSC 7640 Dissertation Research (minimum 12 credits required.) 1-6 credits