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CSE Certificate Program Courses

The following table identifies courses that qualify for the CSE certificate program. Note that this list is not inclusive and may be expanded to include other advanced courses of three credits or more as approved by the certificate program's faculty advisor. Abbreviations used in the table include the following: SCH - refers to a School, College, or ICES; CLA - College of Liberal Arts, CNS - College of Natural Sciences; CSE - Cockrell School of Engineering; JSG - Jackson School of Geosciences, MSB - McCombs School of Business. The course abbreviations in column one are consistent with the UT Undergraduate Course Catalog and descriptions of each course may be found therein.

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Highlighted courses are being offered on the Fall 2013 course schedule.

Course Abbreviation and Number	Course Title	SCH
	1. Upper Division Mathematics (1 course, 3-4 credits)
M 340L	Matrices and Matrix Calculations	CNS
M 341	Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory	CNS
SSC 329C	Practical Linear Algebra I	CNS
M 427K	Advanced Calculus for Applications I	CNS
M 427L	Advanced Calculus for Applications II	CNS

	2. Basic Programming (1 course 1-3 credits)
ASE 201	Introduction to Computer Programming	CSE
BME 303	Introduction to Computing	CSE
CHE 210	Introduction to Computing	CSE
C E 311K	Introduction to Computer Methods	CSE
C S 313E	Elements of Software Design	CNS
C S 303E	Elements of Computers and Programming	CNS
C S 305J	Introduction to Computing	CNS
C S 105	Computer Programming	CNS
E E 312	Software Design and Implementation I	CSE
GEO 325J	Programming in FORTRAN and MATLAB	JSG
M E 205	Introduction to Computers and Programming	CSE
MIS 304	Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming	MSB
SSC 222	Introduction to Scientific Programming	CNS
Any course from #5 (Electives)		Various
Any other basic programming course as approved by the Certificate Adviser		Various

	3. Numerical Applications (1 course, 1-3 credits)
ARE 372	Modeling of Air and Pollutant Flows in Buildings	CSE
ASE 311	Engineering Computation	CSE
ASE 347	Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics	CSE
BIO 321G	Introduction to Computational Biology	CNS
BIO 337J	Computational Biology Laboratory	CNS
BME 313	Numerical Methods and Modeling in Biomedical Engineering	CSE
BME 113L	Introduction to Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering	CSE
BME 341	Tools for Computational Biomolecular Engineering	CSE
BME 342	Biomechanics of Human Movement	CSE
BME 345	Graphics and Visualization Laboratory	CSE
BME 346	Computational Biomolecular Engineering	CSE
CHE 348	Numerical Methods in Chemical Engineering and Problem Solving	CSE
ECO 363C	Computational Economics	CLA
E E 313	Linear Systems and Signals	CSE
GEO 325K	Computational Methods	JSG
STA 372	Topic 7 – Computational Finance	MSB
GEO 347G	Climate System Modeling	JSG
M 374M	Mathematical Modeling in Science and Engineering	CNS
E M 360	Topic 13 – Applications of Finite Element Methods	CSE
M E 218	Engineering Computational Methods	CSE
M E 369L	Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics	CNS
M E 365K	Finite Element Method	CSE
PGE 323M	Reservoir Engineering III	CSE
SSC 339	Applied Computational Science	CNS
PHY 329	Introduction to Computational Physics	CNS

	4. Advanced Computing (1 course, 3 credits)
SSC 335	Scientific & Technical Computing	CNS
SSC 374C	Parallel Computing for Science and Engineering	CNS
SSC 374D	Distributed and Grid Computing for Science and Engineering	CNS
SSC 374E	Visualization and Data Analysis for Science and Engineering	CNS
SSC 375	Special Topics in Scientific Computation	CNS
C S 329E	Topics in Elements of Computing	CNS
C S 377	Principles and Applications of Parallel Programming	CNS
E E 360F	Introduction to Software Engineering	CSE
M 368K	Numerical Methods for Applications	CNS
C S 367	Numerical Methods	CNS
M 348	Scientific Computation in Numerical Analysis	CNS
C S 323E	Elements of Scientific Computing	CNS
C S 323H	Elements of Scientific Computing: Honors	CNS

	5. Electives (≥ 1 course, ≥ 3 credits)
Any additional course from #3 (Numerical Applications) or #4 (Advanced Computing)		Various
M 372K	Partial Differential Equations and Applications	CNS
M 346	Applied Linear Algebra	CNS
M 376C	Methods of Applied Mathematics	CNS
GEO 366M	Mathematical Methods in Geophysics	JSG
C S 337	Theory in Programming Practice	CNS
C S 337H	Theory in Programming Practice: Honors	CNS
C S 373	Software Engineering	CNS
ASE 330M	Linear System Analysis	CSE
CSE 380	Tools and Techniques of Computational Science	ICES
CSE 383C	Numerical Analysis: Linear Algebra	ICES
CSE 383K	Numerical Analysis: Algebra and Approximation	ICES
CSE 386M	Functional Analysis in Theoretical Mechanics	ICES
CSE 386C	Methods of Applied Mathematics	ICES
CSE 393F	Finite Element Methods	ICES
CSE 393N	Numerical Methods for Flow and Transport Problems	ICES
SSC 394	Scientific & Technical Computing	CNS
SSC 394C	Parallel Computing for Scientists and Engineers	CNS
SSC 394D	Distributed and Grid Computing for Scientists and Engineers	CNS
Any graduate level scientific computing course, with consent of the Certificate Adviser		Various

	6. Scientific Computing Project (1 course, 3 credits)
Any 3 credit, advanced undergraduate level individual instruction course in a participating department		Various