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Carnegie Mellon has top-caliber electives delivered by faculty and industry practitioners that are leaders in their field. To complete your degree, you'll need to take a 4 course equivalent in Electives or Concentrations. Since many of our electives are delivered in mini-semester format, you can take multiple electives. Below is just a sample of electives. You can also choose courses in the Tepper School of Management, the School of Computer Sciences, Software Engineering Institute, and other Carnegie Mellon schools. Faculty from across our prestigious university, recognized as some of the most brilliant experts in their fields, offer a rich array of courses to complement your required course load.

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Course Number	Title	Faculty
90-759	Acting for Management	Geoffrey Hitch
95-845	Acting for Management	Geoffrey Hitch
95-704	Advanced Database Management	Karyn E. Moore Anna Shillabeer Jeremy Smith Randall Trzeciak
95-829	Advanced IT Project Management	Christopher A. Kowalsky
90-751	Advanced Negotiation in Complex Environments	Linda C. Babcock Jared Simmer
91-845	Advanced Power and Influence	David M. Krackhardt
95-849	Advanced Topics in Interactive Marketing	Michael J. Smith
95-860	Advanced Writing for IT	Edward H. Barr
95-771	Algorithms and Data Structures for Information Processing	Michael McCarthy Anna Shillabeer
95-852	Analytics & Business Intelligence	Artur Dubrawski
95-804	Applied Cryptography	Michael McCarthy
90-866	Artificial Intelligence Tools for Policy	Daniel B. Neill
95-774	Business Process Modeling	Karyn E. Moore
95-848	Consulting Communications	Chris Labash
95-825	Corporate Finance	Tiong Kiong Lim Lynne Pastor
95-791	Data Mining I	Artur Dubrawski Murlikrishna Viswanathan
95-797	Data Warehousing	John Shantz
95-703	Database Management	Karyn E. Moore Anna Shillabeer Jeremy Smith Janusz Szczypula Murlikrishna Viswanathan Zhijun Zhan
95-760	Decision Making Under Uncertainty	Jonathan P. Caulkins Stephen F. Roehrig Murlikrishna Viswanathan Zhijun Zhan
95-722	Digital Transformation	Ramayya Krishnan Michael J. Smith
90-825	E&TIM Seminar: Innovation Management in Practice
95-730	E-Business Technology and Management	Pawan Khera Ramayya Krishnan Riaz Esmailzadeh
95-729	E-Commerce Technologies	Jason L. Hansen
95-710	Economic Analysis	Alessandro Acquisti Tiong Kiong Lim Victor Pontines Yunfeng Shi
95-831	Enterprise Architectures	Murlikrishna Viswanathan
95-785	Entrepreneurship	Barbara Carryer Riaz Esmailzadeh
90-874	Entrepreneurship	Barbara Carryer
95-795	Entrepreneurship and Business Planning	Edward H. Barr Chris Labash
91-828	Ethical Issues In Management	Peter Madsen
95-715	Financial Accounting (Financial Statement Literacy and Analysis)	Lynne Pastor
91-857	Financial Modeling and Analysis	Lynne Pastor
95-708	Geographic Information Systems	Kristen S. Kurland
95-833	Global IT Management	Andy Wasser
95-782	Global eBusiness Strategy	Mark F. DeSantis
95-856	Hacking Exposed
90-834	Health Care Geographical Information Systems	Kristen S. Kurland
90-853	Health Care Information Systems	Rema Padman
91-853	Health Care Information Systems
90-735	Health Economics	Martin S. Gaynor
90-820	Health IT Security
91-822	Human Resources Management	Aloysius M. Gallagher
95-775	IT Business Leadership
95-837	IT Global Sourcing	Andy Wasser
95-808	IT Project Management	Riaz Esmailzadeh Anna Shillabeer Rakesh Thapar
95-857	Incident Response	Earl N. Crane
95-765	Information Security Project
95-756	Information Security Risk Analysis	Ashish Arora Pedro Ferreira Rahul Telang
95-757	Information Security Risk Policy & Management	Rahul Telang
95-802	Information Security: A Comparison of American and European Policies
90-802	Information Security: Comparison of US and European Policies	Albrecht Funk
95-720	Information Systems Project
95-709	Information Technology for Decision Support	John Shantz
95-803	Information Warfare	Tim Shimeall
95-767	Information and Telecommunication Policy in an International Context	Pedro Ferreira
95-859	Innovation & Technology	Chris Labash
95-732	Interactive Marketing	Michael J. Smith
95-713	Intermediate Java	Sakir Yucel
95-753	Internet Security	Martin Lindner
95-733	Internet Technologies	Michael McCarthy Anna Shillabeer
95-900	Internship
90-784	Introduction to GIS	Kristen S. Kurland
95-752	Introduction to Information Security Management	Anna Shillabeer Tim Shimeall
95-812	Introduction to the ITIL Framework	Ryan Smalley
95-840	Investment Management
91-810	Leadership: Innovation And Organizational Change	Lance B. Kurke
91-864	Leading in a Lean and Six Sigma World
95-799	Linux & Open Source	Dennis Moul
91-807	Management Consulting	Chris W. Brussalis
95-810	Managing In A Virtual Environment	Laura Dabbish
91-844	Managing Quality Improvement	Joseph J. Balestreire
90-837	Managing Technology for Public Health	Sharique Hasan
90-782	Multi-Media	Gary Franko
90-750	Negotiation	Linda C. Babcock Jared Simmer
95-790	Negotiation	Linda C. Babcock Jared Simmer
95-769	Network Security Analysis
95-706	Object Oriented Analysis & Design	Rahmi Marasli Stephen F. Roehrig Anna Shillabeer
95-712	Object Oriented Programming in Java	Michael McCarthy Stephen F. Roehrig Murlikrishna Viswanathan Sakir Yucel
91-809	Organizational Change: Transition And Transformation	Denise M. Rousseau
95-702	Organizational Communication and Distributed Object Technologies	Michael McCarthy Yasir Khalifa
95-700	Organizational Management	Laura Dabbish Terry F. Buss David M. Krackhardt David Lassman Lance B. Kurke
91-800	Organizational Management: Theory And Practice	Terry F. Buss David Lassman
91-808	Performance Management	Denise M. Rousseau
95-788	Planning for an Information Technology Start - Up
90-895	Policy Topics: Information Security Policy	Earl N. Crane Michael J. Smith
91-843	Power And Influence	David M. Krackhardt
95-716	Principles of Finance	Lynne Pastor
90-761	Principles of Healthcare Management
95-763	Privacy and Confidentiality: Models and Implementations	Stephen F. Roehrig
90-867	Privacy in Digital Age	Alessandro Acquisti
95-762	Privacy in the Digital Age	Alessandro Acquisti
95-821	Product Management in Information Technology	Thomas Murray
95-718	Professional Speaking	Chris Labash
95-717	Professional Writing	Edward H. Barr
91-821	Project Management	Laura W. Synnott Riaz Esmailzadeh
95-770	Security Policy Seminars
90-857	Service Management	Robert C. Hampshire
95-844	Service Management	Robert C. Hampshire
95-843	Service Oriented Architecture	Michael McCarthy
95-800	Social Media	Ari Lightman
11-791	Software Engineering For Information Technology I: Principles	Eric H. Nyberg
11-792	Software Engineering For Information Technology II: Practice	Eric H. Nyberg
90-814	Special Topics Technology Innovation Policy
95-814	Special Topics Technology Innovation Policy
91-858	Spreadsheet Modeling and Analysis for Management Decision Making	Lynne Pastor
90-790	State And Local Finance	Robert P. Strauss
95-796	Statistics for IT Managers	Daniel B. Neill Victor Pontines Janusz Szczypula Zhijun Zhan
95-820	Strategic Management and Implementation	Thomas Murray
91-818	Strategic Marketing/Communications
91-820	Strategic Planning	Laks Iyengar Terry F. Buss
90-785	Survey Design And Analysis	Justin Hayward Gross
90-794	Survey Sampling Methods
95-794	Tech Startup: Tools and Techniques
95-842	Technology Acceptance	Sarah Spiekermann
95-822	Technology Consulting in the Community	Joseph Mertz
90-795	Technology and Policy for Disaster and Humanitarian Response
90-855	Technology for Developing Communities
95-705	Telecommunications Management	Riaz Esmailzadeh Danny F. Fernandes Pedro Ferreira Ramayya Krishnan Rahul Telang Sakir Yucel
95-759	Terrorism Security and Intelligence	David R. Palmer
90-880	The Strategy and Management of Technological Innovation
95-854	Transformational Leadership for Global Enterprises
90-806	Transformational Leadership for Global Enterprises	Cheryl Grise

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