My favorite courses were:
CS 371R Info Retrieval & Web Search Mooney
CS 303E Elements of Computer & Program Mitra
CS 341 Automata Theory Eberlein
CS 344M Autonomous Multiagent Systems-W Stone
CS378 Intro to Distributed Computing Alvisi

Few classmates of my IR class are:
BALASUBRAMANIAN; PRAVEEN
CAMARGO; JORGE LUIS
MUCHERLA; POOJA
TIJERINA; DANIEL
WALTER; JAMES REID