Computer Science Curriculum

The following is the final, approved version of the new CS curriculum.

• Overview and rationalization for new curriculum
• Catalog copy of new CS major and minor
• Advising information for CS
• Departmental goals
• Prerequisite chart for all courses
• Anticipated course scheduling table
• Departments impacted by change and proposed resolution
• Changes since initial posting
• New courses
  • CSCI 121: Introduction to Programming
  • CSCI 123: Great Ideas in Computer Science
  • CSCI 125: Introduction to Computer Hardware
  • CSCI 131: Object-Oriented Java Programming
  • CSCI 161: Data Visualization
  • CSCI 170: General Topics in Computer Science
  • CSCI 201: Data Structures and Abstraction
  • CSCI 205: Algorithms and Design
  • CSCI 211: Threaded Programming
  • CSCI 221: Programming Language Paradigms
  • CSCI 231: Computer Networks
  • CSCI 241: Computer Architecture
  • CSCI 251: Web Programming
  • CSCI 261: Principles of Computation and Modeling
  • CSCI 281: Social and Professional Issues
  • CSCI 301: Topics in Algorithms
  • CSCI 311: Operating Systems
  • CSCI 321: Database Applications
  • CSCI 325: Database Principles
  • CSCI 331: Graphical Algorithms
  • CSCI 341: Object Oriented Analysis & Design
  • CSCI 345: Software Engineering
  • CSCI 381: Software Development Projects
• Courses with minor modification
  • CSCI 380 becomes CSCI 370: Topics in Computer Science
• Retained courses
  • CSCI 270: Topics in Computer Science
  • CSCI 390: Special Projects (has changes to description)
  • 395: Teaching Assistant
  • 396: Teaching Assistant Research
• New Mathematics course
  • Math 160: Discrete Structures
• Mathematics course with minor changes
  • Math 200: Discrete Mathematics
  • Math 175 will be changed to be offered each spring instead of each fall.