CSC 406 — SYSTEMS I (CUR-229)
Summary 🟡 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Computer Science
- College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
- Curriculum section: Engineering / Computer Science / CDM
- Catalog: CSC 406
- Last Verified: 2026-07-01
Course access
- Level: yellow (
Prerequisites Required) - Rationale: Catalog lists formal prerequisites, co-requisites, or program-status requirements.
- Prerequisites:
- CSC 401 is a prerequisite
Verification
- Status: verified_catalog_course (
✓) - Rationale: Captured from official DePaul course catalog (2026-06-30 discovery pass).
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/csc
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
An introductory graduate course on computer systems topics, focusing on machine-level programming and architecture and their relevance for application programming. Information representations, assembly language and debuggers, processor architecture, program optimization, memory hierarchy and caching. Students are recommended to finish CSC 400 before enrolling in this course. CSC 401 is a prerequisite for this class.
Hardware relevance
Hardware-related coursework per catalog description review (May 2026).
Notes
Catalog course key: CSC 406.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000168←depaul/SRC-000760(catalog_description)- Extraction status: linked
- Evidence packets:
2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence- Schedule (capture): 2026-2027 Autumn — Ljubomir Perkovic
- Evidence captures:
- Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-CSC-406.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-CSC-406.json - Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.