CS 4973 — Topics in Computer Science

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureusually offered: fall, spring, summertypical days: MBostonOnlineSeattle, WAOnlineTraditionalrepeatable for credit

Offers a lecture course in computer science on a topic not regularly taught in a formal course. Topics may vary from offering to offering. May be repeated up to three times.

Prerequisites

all of:
- CS 3000 (min D-)
- one of:
  - CS 3100 (min D-)
  - CIS 310M
  - CS 3500 (min D-)
  - DS 3500 (min D-)

Offering history

Term	Sections	Enrolled	Capacity	Full	Open seats/section
Fall 2023	6	61	109	56%	8.0
Spring 2024	3	28	58	48%	10.0
Summer A 2024	1	41	50	82%	9.0
Summer B 2024	2	56	108	52%	26.0
Fall 2024	6	60	117	51%	9.5
Spring 2025	8	87	157	55%	8.8
Summer A 2025	1	40	50	80%	10.0
Summer B 2025	1	28	50	56%	22.0
Fall 2025	7	59	171	35%	16.0
Spring 2026	3	45	69	65%	8.0

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 52% · T 43% · W 45% · Th 18% · F 27%

Common patterns: MW (32% of sections), TF (24% of sections), T (17% of sections), MR (11% of sections), MWR (6% of sections), WF (3% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Arjun Guha (16% of students) · reviews
Beth Noveck (14% of students) · reviews
Huaizu Jiang (11% of students) · reviews
Elettra Bietti (9% of students) · reviews

Spring

Michael Ann DeVito (19% of students) · reviews
Arjun Guha (18% of students) · reviews
Gene Cooperman (16% of students) · reviews
Kai Bernardini (13% of students) · reviews

Summer A

Anthony Mullen (100% of students) · reviews

Summer B

Rushil Khurana (60% of students) · reviews
Chris Geeng (33% of students) · reviews
Maxwell Bernstein (7% of students)

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Links

Official catalog (CS course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All CS courses · Plan it at numap.app