Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies - Extended Major Program in Artificial Intelligence
(For students admitted in 2023-24 under the 4-year degree)
Extended Major Program in Artificial Intelligence
Extended Major is an add-on element to enrich the existing majors. Students should declare their Extended
Major upon admission to HKUST or via the Opt-in Arrangement after they have been admitted to HKUST for
guaranteed enrollment in the Extended Major with a Major. Students who wish to withdraw from the Extended
Major should apply before the last day of the add/drop period in the first regular term of their final year of
study.
The Extended Major in Artificial Intelligence is available for combination with Science Majors (BSc programs in
Data Science and Technology, Mathematics, Ocean Science and Technology, Physics), any Engineering
Majors or Business Majors (BBA/BSc programs in Professional Accounting, Economics, Finance, Global
Business, Information Systems, Marketing, Management, Operations Management, Economics and Finance,
Quantitative Finance, and Risk Management and Business Intelligence). It is designed for students with
fundamental knowledge in calculus (e.g. MATH 1014/MATH 1020/MATH 1024), statistics (ISOM 2500/MATH
2411) and programming (COMP 1021/COMP 1022P/ISOM 3230), but also open to other students, given that
they may be required to take one or two additional courses to acquire relevant foundation.
To graduate with an Extended Major, students must have enrolled in the Extended Major, complete a
minimum of 22 credits and all of its requirements, as well as the requirements of the major program of study;
and have attained an average grade point of at least 2.15 in courses taken within the Extended Major. All
courses counted towards the Extended Major Requirements, as well as those used to fulfill the Major
Requirements, will be included in the calculation of the Major Cumulative Grade Average (MCGA).
Students must take all the Extended Major requirement, within which they must complete at least 12 single-
counted credits. These 12 credits cannot be used to fulfill any other requirements for graduation except for the
120-credit degree requirement. For credit transfer, students can transfer a maximum total of 6 credits to the
Extended Major program.
Under the new 30-credit Common Core Program which is applicable to students admitted to the University in
2022-23 and thereafter, courses that have been counted towards School and/or Major Requirements are not
allowed to be reused for fulfilment of the University Common Core Requirements. Students should look up the
details of the Common Core Program including the general and School-/program-specific distributional
requirements posted on the Common Core website where the link to it is available on this website.
Major Requirements
Required Course(s)
Credit(s)
attained
EMIA 2010A Cross-disciplinary Seminar: Artificial Intelligence 0
EMIA 2020 Cross-disciplinary Design Thinking 3
EMIA/COMP/ Note: EMIA 4110 OR COMP 4211 OR MATH 4432 3
MATH
EMIA 4110 Practical Machine Learning 3
COMP 4211 Machine Learning 3
MATH 4432 Statistical Machine Learning 3
EMIA Note: EMIA 4990 OR EMIA 4991 0-3
EMIA 4990 Interdisciplinary Capstone Design 0
EMIA 4991 Interdisciplinary Capstone Project 3
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COMP Note: COMP 2011 OR COMP 2012 OR COMP 2012H 4-5
COMP 2011 Programming with C++ 4
COMP 2012 Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures 4
COMP 2012H Honors Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures 5
COMP Note: COMP 2211 OR COMP 3211 3
COMP 2211 Exploring Artificial Intelligence 3
COMP 3211 Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence 3
Elective(s)
Minimum
credit(s)
required
AIS/SSCI/ Artificial Intelligence Electives (3 courses from the specified 6-9
SENG/SBM/ elective list. Students may use at most one course from the
SHSS same course groups of COMP 4421/ELEC 4130/MATH 4336
and COMP 4462/DASC 3240 to count towards this elective
requirement.) [Students taking EMIA 4990 should take a
minimum of 9 credits. Student taking EMIA 4991 should take a
minimum of 6 credits.]
CTDL 1902 AI and Society: Ethics, Cognition, and Critical Analysis 3
EMIA 3500A AI and Design in Sci-Fi 2
EMIA 4120** Ethics of Artificial Intelligence 3
IDPO 2500B AI Literacy & Critical Thinking: Survival Skills for a Changing World 3
ACCT 4720 Equity Investment with Machine Learning 3
BIEN 3300 Data Science for Molecular Engineering 3
BIEN 3310 Data Science for Neural Engineering 3
BIEN 3320 Data Science for Biology and Medicine 3
CENG 3300 Data Science for Molecular Engineering 3
CIVL 4210 Advanced Construction with AI and Robotics 3
CIVL 4220 Scientific Machine Learning for Infrastructure Systems 3
COMP 1944 Artificial Intelligence Ethics 3
COMP 4221 Introduction to Natural Language Processing 3
COMP 4222 Machine Learning with Structured Data 3
COMP 4321 Search Engines for Web and Enterprise Data 3
COMP 4331 Data Mining 3
COMP 4332 Big Data Mining and Management 3
COMP 4421 Image Processing 3
COMP 4451 Game Programming 3
COMP 4462 Data Visualization 3
COMP 4471 Deep Learning in Computer Vision 3
COMP 4641 Social Information Network Analysis and Engineering 3
COMP 4901K Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing 3
COMP 4901L Foundations of Computer Vision 3
COMP 5211 Advanced Artificial Intelligence 3
COMP 5212 Machine Learning 3
COMP 5213 Introduction to Bayesian Networks 3
COMP 5221 Natural Language Processing 3
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COMP 5223 Perception and Information Processing for Robotics 3
COMP 5331 Knowledge Discovery in Databases 3
COMP 5421 Computer Vision 3
DASC 3240 Data Visualization in Science 3
DASC 3250 Numerical Methods for Data Analytics in Science 3
DASC 4400 Data Analytics in Information Science 3
ELEC 3810 Data Science for Neural Engineering 3
ELEC 4130 Machine Learning on Images 3
ELEC 4230 Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing 3
HUMA 1930 Introduction to the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science 3
IEDA 3010 Prescriptive Analytics 3
IEDA 3560 Predictive Analytics 3
ISOM 3340 Developing AI Applications 1
ISOM 3360 Data Mining for Business Analytics 3
ISOM 3390 Business Programming in R 3
LIFS 4320 Data Science for Biology and Medicine 3
MATH 3425 Stochastic Modeling 3
MATH 4335 Introduction to Optimization 3
MATH 4336 Introduction to Mathematics of Image Processing 3
MECH 4000P AI in Mechanical Engineering 3
PHYS 4058 Information Physics 3
PHYS 4811 Contemporary Applications of Physics: Machine Learning in Physics 1
**Remarks on course(s):
- EMIA 4120: This is a new course subject to approval.
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