Dang, 20 courses for a Ph.D. sounds like a lot to me, too. Can some of them be fulfilled with reading-and-research credit? For comparison, in the CS Ph.D. program, you're required to take about eight courses. I think most people end up taking a few more than that, to get some more depth in their area, but after fourteen or fifteen, you're pretty much expected to move on to research.
If you decide to go with the informatics minor, there are some cool informatics courses on things like crypto, machine learning, ethnography of information, and so on. (The distinction between info and CS is rather arbitrary and annoying. If you ever want to see someone's face cloud over, ask an info or CS professor what the difference is.)
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Date: 2010-07-18 06:18 am (UTC)If you decide to go with the informatics minor, there are some cool informatics courses on things like crypto, machine learning, ethnography of information, and so on. (The distinction between info and CS is rather arbitrary and annoying. If you ever want to see someone's face cloud over, ask an info or CS professor what the difference is.)