COMP 393 is Master's Thesis. Only take this if you plan to turn in a Master's thesis. COMP 394 is Ph.D. Dissertation. Only take this if you plan to turn in a Ph.D. dissertation. The faculty wants some mechanism where a student's advisor must provide permission before a student enrolls in COMP 394.
Most professors have a section of each course.
If you take a professor's section of one of these courses without their permission, don't be surprised if you receive an unsatisfactory grade. They are currently looking at a couple of software packages and will report back to the faculty. Intellectual Property A couple folks from the Office of Technology Development came to talk about patents, disclosures, copyrights, etc. If there are a sizeable number of students interested in the topic, Tim said that we can bring them back for a student forum. Let me know if you're interested.