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I was interested in taking a computer architecture course at a community college because it's listed as a prereq for a CS masters program I was interested (my undergrad was not in CS). However, it doesn't seem like the community colleges in my area offer such a course.

Do you know of any online computer architecture courses that can be taken for credit?

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mit open courseware; tghis is a dupe – Job Sep 10 '11 at 21:58
@Job: Note I said a course that can be taken for credit – sq1020 Sep 10 '11 at 23:45

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Community colleges usually focus on lower-division courses and on courses that are immediately useful for work. Computer architecture is generally an upper-division course, and it is not usually something a generic coder will need on his job. As such, it is not something a community college will usually offer.

The school offering the Master's program you are investigating probably has a process for accepting applicants with "deficiencies" (technical term, meaning you didn't take one or more of the required prerequisite courses), and allowing such an applicant to remedy his deficiencies by taking the appropriate undergraduate class(es). Check with the school.

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