Approved CS Graduate and Special Topics Courses

If you choose to take special topics courses towards your major requirements, please be mindful of the following:

You must meet the minimum upper-division unit requirements.
- Students admitted Spring 22 or before are approved to count the following courses towards 24 units of upper division required for the CS major.
- Students admitted Fall 22 or later are approved to count the following courses towards 20 units of upper division required for the CS major. Students admitted Fall 22 or later may not use the following courses toward the technical elective requirement.
To enroll in a graduate course, contact the professor to receive permission.
To see CS & EE special topics and graduate classes that have partial approval or that have been denied, visit this page.

Important

Special topics classes may be unit variable. Please refer to the table below for the approved special topics classes for the CS major. You may refer to the Academic Guide for the most up-to-date unit counts, but note that only the courses listed on this page may count towards the CS major.

Course Number	Course Title	Notes	Units
CS 194-15	Parallel Computing		Variable units
CS 194-16	Introduction to Data Science	(Discontinued)	Variable units
CS 194-26	Computational Photography	(Discontinued; now offered as CS180/280A)	Variable units
CS 194-28	Computational Design and Fabrication		Variable units
CS 194-30	Practical Networking		Variable units
CS 194-31	Technology and Social Networks		Variable units
CS 194-32	Computing for Social Good		Variable units
CS 194-34	Cryptography (spring/fall 2019)		Variable units
CS 194-35	Data Engineering		Variable units
CS 194-73	Software Engineering for Scientific Computing		Variable units
CS 194-80	Full Stack Deep Learning		Variable units
CS 194-100	EECS for All: Social Justice in EECS		Variable units
CS 194-126	PCB Design		Variable units
CS 194-129	Designing, Visualizing and Understanding Deep Neural Networks	Also fulfills CS Major design requirement	Variable units
CS 194-131/Des Inv 190	Designing Technology to Counter Violent Extremism	Only CS 194-131 counts. Des Inv 190 is the non-technical version and does not count.	Variable units
CS 194-133	Collaborative Intelligent Agents and The DARPA Spectrum Challenge		Variable units
CS 194-138	Cyberwar		Variable units
CS 194-164	Computational Human Vision		Variable units
CS 194-172	Computational Genomics		Variable units
CS 194-177	Intro to Decentralized Finance		Variable units
CS 194-196	Technology of Decentralization and Decentralized Intelligence - or - Agentic AI		Variable units
CS 194-198	Networks: Models, Processes & Algorithms		Variable units
CS 194-238	Special Topics in Zero Knowledge Proof		Variable units
CS 194-224	Entrepreneurship in Web3		Variable units
CS 194-280	Advanced Large Language Model Agents		Variable units
CS 194-302	Computational Single-Cell and Systems Immunology		Variable units
CS 261N	Internet/Network Security		4
CS 262A	Advanced Topics in Computer Systems		4
CS 262B	Advanced Topics in Computer Systems		3
CS 263	Design of Programming Languages		3
CS 265	Compiler Optimization and Code Generation		3
CS C267	Applications of Parallel Computers		3
CS 268	Computer Networks		3
CS 270	Combinatorial Algorithms and Data Structures		3
CS 271	Randomness and Computation		3
CS 273	Foundations of Parallel Computation		3
CS 274	Computational Geometry		3
CS 276	Cryptography		3
CS 278	Machine-Based Complexity Theory		3
CS C280	Computer Vision		3
CS C281A	Statistical Learning Theory		3
CS C281B	Advanced Topics in Learning and Decision Making		3
CS 282A	Designing, Visualizing, and Understanding Deep Neural Networks	Also fulfills CS Major design requirement	4
CS 284B	Computer Graphics		4
CS 285	Deep Reinforcement Learning, Decision Making, and Control	Also fulfills CS Major design requirement	3
CS 286B	Implementation of Data Base Systems		3
CS 287	Advanced Robotics	Also fulfills CS Major design requirement	3
CS 287H	Algorithmic Human-Robot Interaction	(Formerly CS 294-115)	4
CS 288	Natural Language Processing	Also fulfills CS Major design requirement	4
CS 294-43	Visual Object and Activity Recognition	Also fulfills CS Major design requirement	Variable units
CS 294-082	Experimental Design for Machine Learning on Multimedia Data		Variable units
CS 294-084	Interactive Device Design		Variable units
CS 294-92	Analysis of Boolean Functions		Variable units
CS 294-112	Deep Learning		Variable units
CS 294-115	Algorithmic Foundations of Human Robot Interactions	Replaced by CS 287H Fall 2020	Variable units
CS 294-127	Computational Imaging		Variable units
CS 294-129	Designing and Visualizing Neural Networks		Variable units
CS 294-131	Special Topics in Deep Learning		Variable units
CS 294-134	Beyond Worst-Case Analysis		Variable units
CS 294-135	Big Data Genomics		Variable units
CS 294-136	Deep Time-Series Learning and Finance Applications		Variable units
CS 294-137	Theory and Applications of Virtual Reality and Immersive Computing		Variable units
CS 294-139	Fairness in Machine Learning		Variable units
CS 294-141	Compilers for Everyone: Designing and Building Domain-Specific Languages		Variable units
CS 294-145	Approximation Algorithms		Variable units
CS 294-149	Safety and Control for Artificial General Intelligence		Variable units
CS 294-150	Machine Learning and Statistics Meet Biology & Chemistry		Variable units
CS 294-158	Deep Unsupervised Learning	Also fulfills CS Major design requirement	Variable units
CS 294-162	Machine Learning Systems		Variable units
CS 294-163	Decentralized Security: Theory and Systems		Variable units
CS 294-164	Computational Color	(Discontinued)	Variable units
CS 294-164	Computational Human Vision		Variable units
CS 294-165	Sketching Algorithms		Variable units
CS 294-171	Privacy Preserving Systems		Variable units
CS 294-184	Building User-Centered Programming Tools		Variable units
CS 294-232	Recent Topics on Program Synthesis, Compilation, and Debugging		Variable units
CS 294-226	Advances in Error-Correcting Codes		Variable units
CS 294-262	Performance Analysis and Optimization of Computer Systems		Variable units
CS 294-280	Advanced Large Language Model Agents		Variable units
CS 294-286	Machine Learning & Human Behavior		Variable units
CS 294-302	Computational Single-Cell and Systems Immunology		Variable units
EE 194-002	Nanorobotics		Variable units
EECS 219C	Formal Methods: Specification, Verification, and Synthesis		3
EECS 229A	Information Theory and Coding		3

Approved CS Graduate and Special Topics Courses

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