CSCI-Y 792 Master’s Thesis
1-6 credits
- Prerequisite(s): None
- Delivery: On-Campus
Description
Readings and research under the supervision of the master’s thesis advisor, leading to a thesis at a level admissible as a departmental technical report.
Learning Outcomes
- Evaluate the literature critically, interpreting computer science contributions, deficiencies, and theories for the thesis/project research problem, aims, questions or hypotheses, and methods. CS 7
- Assess the research designs of published research articles in computer science. CS 7
- Formulate specific research aims, questions, or hypotheses within a topic area of computer science. CS 7
- Determine appropriate research methods to answer particular research questions, test hypotheses, or evaluate algorithms or systems. CS 7
- Analyze data using appropriate quantitative methods. CS 4
- Critique peers’ research designs and provide generative feedback. CS 7
- Design, develop, and write a research thesis or project proposal and defend it before a research committee. CS 7
- Execute the research proposal, developing a system and/or collecting data, based on the research plan, and abiding by ethical standards for conducting research. CS 6
- Write a thesis or project report and defend it before a research committee. CS 7
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