College Computer Science and Informatics
Department Computer Science and Information Systems
M.A Study Plan
Major Computer Science – Comprehensive Track
Academic Year 2025/2026
Type of Program Blended Study Plan Credit hours (33)
Percentage of study plan
Teaching Type Actual Ratio
hours/number
Complete Online E-Learning 20% - 10% Maximum 18%
Blended learning (for scientific majors) 50% - 30% Maximum 46%
Face-to-face learning (for scientific majors) 30% Minimum 36%
Note: The learning types of the courses are disseminated at all academic levels in the program
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Department Vision
Excellence in teaching, learning, scientific research, and community service in computer science
and information systems fields locally and regionally.
Department Mission
Preparing qualified students with competencies in computer science and information systems
fields, having the applied and research knowledge and the skills to meet the requirements of the
labor market and local community institutions according to quality criteria locally and
internationally.
Program Mission
Preparing qualified students in computer science fields to meet local and international standards
and community requirements according to eLearning criteria.
Educational Program Objectives
1. Acquiring various skills and knowledge in light of the rapid change in software and computing
fields.
2. Providing research competencies in computer science as a basis for postgraduate studies.
3. Providing students with analytical knowledge and skills to find effective and creative solutions
for practical and research problems.
4. Qualifying specialists with the ability to make changes, development, and innovation in
computer science.
Educational Program Outcomes
1. Applying knowledge, mathematical methods, and algorithm in computer aspects.
2. Analyzing, designing, implementing, and evaluating computing and simulation systems.
3. Realizing computing impacts and technological development on individuals, organizations, and
societies.
4. Using methods of analysis. and problem solving.
5. Using the appropriate techniques and tools in conducting research.
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Plan Contents
First: The study plan for a master’s degree consists of a major in Computer Science Of (33) credit
hours disseminated as follows:
Track Credit
Requisite Type Percent %
Hours
Compulsory Major Requisite 24 73%
Comprehensive
Elective Major Requisite 9 27%
Total 33 100%
Coding system approved by the University
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College Code Major Code Knowledge domain Course Level Sequence
Second: the Comprehensive Track
A. Compulsory Requisites (24) credit hours:
Teaching type
Course Credited Pre-
Online E-
Learning
Face-to-
Blended
Course Title
Face
Number Hours Requisite
√ Statistics and Research Methodology
40110701
in Computer Science
3 -
√ 40110703 Graduation Project 3 -
√ 40120701 Advanced Operating Systems 3 -
√ 40120702 Advanced Algorithms 3 -
√ 40130701 Advanced Computer Networks 3 -
√ Advanced Database and Data
40140701
Warehouse Systems
3 -
√ 40150701 Advanced Software Engineering 3 -
√ 40160701 Advanced Artificial Intelligence 3 -
Total 24
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B. Elective Requisites (9) credit hours chosen by the student from the following
courses:
Teaching type
Course Credited Pre-
Online E-
Learning
Face-to-
Blended
Course Title
Face
Number Hours Requisite
√ Selected Topics in Computer
40110704
Science
3 -
√ 40130702 Cloud Computing and Big Data 3 -
√ Information Security and
40140702
Cryptography
3 -
√ 40140703 Information Retrieval 3 -
√ 40160702 Advanced Image Processing 3 -
√ Advanced Natural Language
40160703
Processing
3 -
Total 9
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Course Description
40110701 Statistics and Research Methodology in Computer Science (3 Credit Hours,
Prerequisite: Online)
Providing experiences using the tools and techniques for doing research in Computer Science.
Subjects include aspects of research from developing a project proposal to various forms of
dissemination. Emphasizes communication skills, creative thinking, problem-solving, and
integration of knowledge from prior computer science courses. Includes a study of computer
science research tools, principles of experiment design, and statistics. There will be a semester-
long project in which, student will select a research problem, review relevant literature, produce
a report, and present the results of their research to their peers.
40120701 Advanced Operating Systems (3 Credit Hours, Prerequisite: Blended)
Operating Systems Theoretical and practical aspects of operating systems. Process and thread
communication and synchronization. File systems, disk management, I/O systems, protection and
security systems, distributed system, real-time systems, mobile operating systems, current trends
in operating systems, the course includes complete a research or project by the students.
40130701 Advanced Computer Networks (3 Credit Hours, Prerequisite: Face-to-face)
The course covers the principles of computer networking with emphasis on algorithms, protocols,
and implementation aspects of advanced networking services. The topics covered in this course
include the design of the Internet and its basic mechanisms and protocols in addition to selected
advanced recent topics of research in networking such as routing, congestion control, wireless
and mobile networks, and performance analysis of computer networks, the course includes
complete a research or project by the students.
40140701 Advanced Database and Data Warehouse Systems (3 Credit Hours, Prerequisite:
Face-to-face)
The course describes the basic concepts, which underpin the technology of database systems. The
main areas covered are Database System Architecture, database design, Entity relationship Model,
Normalization of database tables, an Introduction to SQL (Standard Query Language), SQL Queries,
Distributed Systems, and the Internal Management and Control of database Systems. The Course
introduces the data Warehouse and how it may serve as the foundation for decision support
activities. We explore several approaches to the implementation of decision support systems,
online processing (OLAP) using relational DBMS and multidimensional database. Given the existence
of the data warehouse, data mining system provide automated tools to perform data extraction
and data analysis, also covers in this course, the course includes complete a research or project
by the students.
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40150701 Advanced Software Engineering (3 Credit Hours, Prerequisite: Blended)
This course includes advanced principles and practices in software engineering: exploring
evolutionary software development, software prototyping, object-oriented analysis and design,
software system architectures, software project management, software testing, software metrics
and measurement, software quality assurance, software reuse, software maintenance, reverse
engineering, and computer-aided software engineering, the course includes complete a research
or project by the students.
40120702 Advanced Algorithms (3 Credit Hours, Prerequisite: Face-to-face)
The course introduces advanced techniques for design and analysis of algorithms and focuses on
the range of algorithms available for computational tasks, considering the fundamental division of
tractable tasks, with linear or polynomial-time algorithms; Algorithmic techniques such as (greedy,
divideand-conquer, dynamic programming, graph traversal, backtracking, and branch-and-bound);
applications include sorting and searching, graph algorithms, and optimization. Concept of
algorithm correctness, NP-Complete theory.
40140702 Information Security and Cryptography (3 Credit Hours, Prerequisite: Blended)
The course gives a comprehensive study of the principles and practices of computer system
security including operating system security, network security, software security and web
security. Topics include common attacking techniques such as virus, trojan, worms and memory
exploits; the formalisms of information security such as the access control and information flow
theory; the common security policies such as BLP and Biba model; the basic cryptography, RSA,
cryptographic hash function, and password system; and real system implementations; intrusion
detection; software security theory; web security; legal and ethical issues in computer security,
the course includes complete a research or project by the students.
40140703 Information Retrieval (3 Credit Hours, Prerequisite: Blended)
This course will discuss theory and practice of searching and retrieval of text and bibliographic
information. Topics covered include: automated indexing, statistical and linguistic models, text
classification, Boolean and probabilistic approaches to indexing, query formulation and output
ranking, information routing and filtering, topic detection and tracking, as well as measures of
retrieval effectiveness, including relevance, utility, miss/falsealarm. Techniques for enhancing
retrieval effectiveness including relevance feedback, query reformulation, thesauri, concept
extraction, and automated summarization. The course includes complete a research or project by
the students.
40160701 Advanced Artificial Intelligence (3 Credit Hours, Prerequisite: Blended)
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The main aim of this course is to learn the basic AI techniques, the problems for which they are
applicable and their limitations. The concept of AI is to describe and build agents that receive
precepts from the environment and perform actions. Topics covered include search (solving
puzzles, playing games), planning, logical inference (drawing conclusions from data), expert
systems, natural language processing and machine learning. We explain the role of learning as
extending the reach of the designer into unknown environments, and show how it constrains agent
design, favoring explicit knowledge representation and reasoning, the course includes complete a
research or project by the students.
40160702 Advanced Image processing (3 Credit Hours, Prerequisite: Blended)
The course provides mathematical foundations and practical techniques for digital manipulation of
images, image acquisition, representation, preprocessing, segmentation, and compression. Other
topics include multiresolution image processing, wavelets, morphological image processing, noise
reduction and restoration, simple feature extraction and recognition tasks, image registration, the
course includes complete a research or project by the students.
40160703 Natural Language Processing (3 Credit Hours, Prerequisite: Blended)
This course offers an overview of natural language processing (NLP) and natural language
understanding (NLU) for educational practitioners, leaders, and researchers. This class introduces
analysis of and analytical tools for research work with unstructured data such as student writing,
responses to learner surveys, interview data, or audio and video recordings in an educational
setting. Topics will include an overview of How to collect unstructured data in an educational
environment for research purposes; How to use NLP software to analyze a sample, unstructured
data set; Operational applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language
Understanding (NLU) , the course includes complete a research or project by the students.
40110703 Graduation Project (3 Credit Hours, Prerequisite: Online)
The purpose of this course is to prepare graduate students in computer science to write a research
paper. This course should demonstrate the student’s ability to do independent work in reviewing
the relevant literature, identifying a problem in a research area, organizing existing concepts,
suggesting and developing new approaches to solving the problem and reporting the results. In
addition, students should be expected to develop their skills and abilities in oral presentation.
40130702 Cloud Computing and Big Data (3 Credit Hours, Prerequisite: Blended)
The aims of this course are to show how cloud computing and big data techniques can be used to
solve massive scale problems. The course will aim to introduce students to both the theoretical
background of cloud computing as well as the practical applications. The processing of large
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datasets using Big Data techniques, map-reduce and other techniques will be a large focus. In
addition the course will cover approaches to building applications and managing them on the cloud.
40110704 Special Topics in Computer Science (3 Credit Hours, Prerequisite: Blended)
The aim of this course is to study advanced topics and techniques in merging of different topics of
computer science, the course includes complete a research or project by the students.
Comprehensive Exam: The student undergoes a comprehensive examination after successfully
studying the required courses.
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