As listed here and here, we have agreements with several departments and programs so that our students can take courses from various fields. However, there is one very important detail. Departments permit students from other programs only a few days before the semester starts!!
PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS COURSES
The courses offered within Professional Programs are easier than taking courses from CS, IS, Econ, and Statistics departments due to the prerequisites defined by those departments. So if you want to take courses from professional programs, please
- Cybersecurity visit http://cyberia.umbc.edu/
- Review the policy/process
- Complete the request form
- Health IT – Please fill out the Google form. A link to this form can be found under “Class Notes” in the course schedule.
- Software Engineering – Please fill out the Google form.
- Engineering or Technical Management – Please fill out the Google form. A link to this form can be found under “Class Notes” in the course schedule.
- Geographic Information Systems Advisor – Contact GPD, Dr. Dillon Mahmoudi (dillonm@umbc.edu)
OTHER GRADUATE COURSES
- Students interested in taking courses in Information Systems (IS) should fill out a Google form. Please use this link for Spring 24. They will review the requests about 2 weeks prior to the start of classes, offering remaining seats to requests in the order in which they were received. Note that most of the data science-related IS courses are very popular among IS students. Frequently, non-IS students can’t take IS students due to space unavailability.
- Students interested in taking courses in Economics/Econometry should contact Prof. Thomas Gindling (tgindlin@umbc.edu) for course permission. Note that students are required to have a background in economics in order to choose this pathway. Additionally, certain courses have specific prerequisites.
- Students interested in taking courses in Computer Science (CS) must have an undergraduate degree in Computer Science. They should contact first the instructor of the course. If that instructor allows you to take their class, then please contact the CS Graduate Program Director, Prof. Cynthia Matuszek (cmat@umbc.edu) to ask for permission (do not forget to mention in your email that 1. you have an undergraduate degree in CS; 2. you are an MPS student; 3. you have the approval of the course instructor).
- Students interested in taking courses in Public Policy should contact the instructor for course permission.
- Students interested in taking courses from the Erickson School of Aging Studies should contact Dr. Lee Ann Ferguson (Director, Innovative Learning Solutions and Interim Director of Graduate Programs) at lfergus1@umbc.edu.