Computer Science

For students who entered fall 2011 to spring 2015.

Freshman Year

Sophomore Year

Junior Year

Senior Year

Total Minimum Credits = 120

Computer Science Electives

• CS students must complete two courses (6 credits) of computer science electives.
• These courses must be at the 3000 level or higher.
• These may be any non-required courses offered by the CS Department that are not taken to fill other slots. (That is, courses cannot be “double counted.”)
• Specific courses may be recommended for different CS Options.

¹GenEd Courses

• CS students must complete six courses (18 credits) that satisfy the University General Education Requirements.
• Three of these must be approved Arts and Humanities (AH) courses and three must be approved Social Sciences (SS) courses.
• ENGL.2200 Oral & Written Communication for Computer Science is required and counts as one of the three required AH GenEds.
• One of these courses (either AH or SS) must satisfy the CS Ethics Requirement.
• One (again either AH or SS) must satisfy the University Diversity Requirement.
• Specific courses may be recommended for different CS Options.
• See the University General Education Program website for more detailed information.

²Natural Science Electives

• CS students must complete 12 credits of natural science courses.
• These are courses offered by one of the four natural science departments in the College of Sciences:
  • Biological Sciences
  • Chemistry
  • Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Physics and Applied Physics
• Courses that fulfill this requirement must be classified as required or elective courses for the majors in those departments (with some exceptions).
• This requirement may also be satisfied by completing three 3-credit courses that do not include labs plus one 4-credit course that does include a lab (totaling 13 credits rather than 12), but the Computer Science faculty recommends that students take three 4-credit courses that do include labs as laid out in the course grid.
• An additional constraint is that the total number of credits applied to this requirement plus the number of credits earned in Math (92.xxx) courses must total at least 30.
• Specific courses may be recommended for different CS Options.
• See the CS Dept. Policy on Natural Science Electives for more detailed information.

³Technical Electives

• CS students must complete 6 credits of technical electives.
• These are courses offered by the College of Sciences (this is our college) or the College of Engineering.
• Courses that fulfill this requirement must be classified as required or elective courses for the majors in those departments.
• In general, 90.xxx courses may not be used to fulfill this requirement.
• To use a CS course as a technical elective, it must at the 3000, 4000, or 5000 level.
• Specific courses may be recommended for different CS Options.

⁴Calculus IA and IB will be required instead of Calculus I for students that do not pass the Calculus Readiness Test.

General (Free) Electives

• CS students must complete 12 credits of almost any course offered by the University.
• Courses taken to fulfill this requirement must not be below the level of any required course.
• Specific courses may be recommended for different CS Options.
• More detailed information may be found on the CS Dept. Policy on General Electives.

Slots

• Courses listed in “slots” may generally be taken in any order, within the confines of specified course prerequisites.
• Some CS Options may put constraints on the ordering of these electives.
• Faculty advisors recommend that two-course sequences (such as Chemistry I and II) be taken in successive semesters rather than taking part 1 and then waiting one or more semesters to take part 2.

Restriction on off-campus study:

Be advised that any course taken at another institution must be formally approved prior to enrollment. See the catalog policy for details.

Last Updated 10/17/2017