Graduate Catalogue - UPRM

INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS
DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN COMPUTING
AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND
ENGINEERING (CIIC)
Graduate Courses
CIIC 6005. COMPUTING FOUNDATIONS.
Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per
week.
Concepts and formal definitions of algorithmically
solvable problems. Classification of problems by
their computability in terms of the time and space
required to solve them.
CIIC 8015. ADVANCED TOPICS. Three credit
hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Study of advanced topics in sciences and
engineering of information and computing.
CIIC 8995. ADVANCED TOPICS. One to six
credit hours. One to six hours of lecture per week.
Study of advanced topics in science and
engineering of information and computing.
CIIC 8996. DOCTORAL SEMINAR. Zero to
three credit hours.
Study and dissemination of current research topics
in sciences and engineering of information and
computing. Each student will select a research
topic for which he/she will make a formal and
public presentation.
CIIC 8997. INDEPENDENT STUDY. Zero to six
credit hours.
Independent studies in sciences and engineering of
information and computing.
CIIC 9995. DOCTORAL DISSERTATION. Zero
to eighteen credit hours.
Research work leading to a significant and original
contribution in sciences and engineering of
information and computing.
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Graduate Catalogue 2010-2011