Application Areas allow you to devote up to four of your electives to disciplines outside computer science. Depending upon the Application Area, a science/math elective and/or a management elective may be chosen to support the course sequence.  If no Application Area is chosen, three of the electives are CS and one elective is a free elective.   

Computer Engineering and Embedded Systems

CpE 358 Switching Theory and Logical Design
CpE 390 Microprocessor Systems
CpE 450 Embedded Systems for Real-Time Applications
    or CpE 555 Real-Time and Embedded Systems
CpE 487 Digital System Design

Wireless Networks

CS 521 TCP/IP Networks
NIS 583 Wireless Communications
NIS 584 Wireless Systems Security
NIS 586 Wireless Networking: Architectures, Protocols, and Standards

Software Engineering

SWE 540 Fundamentals of Software Engineering

and any three of the following courses:

SWE 533 Cost Estimation and Metrics
SWE 564 Software Requirements Acquisition and Analysis
SWE 565 Software Architecture and Component-based Design
SWE 567 Software Testing, Quality Assurance, and Maintenance
SWE 689 Software Reliability Engineering

Financial Systems

This application area is ntended for students who contemplate a career in the financial sector. Those who select this Application Area option should take MGT 243 (Macroeconomics) as their required management elective.

MGT 244 Microeconomics
BT 115  Financial Accounting
BT 215  Cost Accounting
BT 321  Finance

Mathematics

This Application Area focuses on topics in mathematics that utilize computing, or mathematics that may be of use to a computer scientist.  These foundation courses are required:

MA 221 Differential equations
MA 232 Linear algebra

Then choose any two of these courses:

MA 331 Statistics
MA 335 Number Theory
MA 336 Modern Algebra
MA 346 Numerical Methods
MA 460 Chaotic Dynamics

Computational Chemistry & Biology

CH 116/118 Chemistry II/Chemistry Lab II
CH 321 Thermodynamics
CH 381 Cell Biology
CH 664 Computer Methods in Chemistry

In addition, you should take the Chemistry/Biology Lab option, in particular CH 115/17 Chemistry I and Lab).  It is also suggested, but not required, that CH 484 (Introduction to Molecular Genetics) be taken as the free elective.