The letter you received accepting you into our graduate program may specify a list of undergraduate course deficiencies that you must remove. Together with your advisor, you should check that this list is appropriate as soon as possible after your arrival. If you feel that you need not take one of the listed courses, you should discuss this with your advisor.
Often, an acceptance letter will not specify a list of deficiencies. However, this does not mean that you do not have any, but merely that a list was not worked out at the time your application was reviewed. You should therefore still discuss deficiencies with your advisor.
Your advisor or a professor who is an instructor for the course may waive your deficiency course requirement if you have already completed an equivalent course or you demonstrate that you have sufficient knowledge about the course by means of a screening test. Once your advisor has decided on the final list, you should make arrangements to take the courses as soon as possible.
Note that a course that is taken as an undergraduate deficiency, or is one of CS 471, 473, or 474, cannot be counted for graduate credit.
If you must satisfy undergraduate deficiencies, the department has provided a course designation of CS 469 which will allow you to satisfy those deficiencies while maintaining full-time graduate status. However, none of the classes taken as CS 469 will apply towards degree.
Students are encouraged to take each deficiency before taking a course, in which this deficiency is a prerequisite.
You must successfully complete all undergraduate deficiencies before taking the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination.