CS Curriculum Revisions 2019-2020

Below are proposed revisions to the CS BS degree.

Note that the current major includes 10 courses required of all majors, 5 additional courses required for information science, 3 CS courses required of computing science, and 2 math courses required for computing science.

Required for all CS Majors

• Retain from current requirements
  • CS 151 Intro to Programming, CS 470 Programming Languages
• Modifications of current requirements
  • CS 303 - currently Discrete Structures, change to Intro to Theory of Computation ("theory lite"), 4 credit hours?
  • CS 451 - currently Architecture, change to Intro to Systems ("systems lite"), 4 credit hours?
  • CS 499 - currently Senior Seminar, change to Senior Design, have students take it their last two semesters (and increase credit hours?)
• New requirements
  • CS 260 Object-Oriented Programming
• Total - 8+12 = 20 credits of CS

Information Science Concentration

• Retain from current requirements
  • CS 170 Web Programming, CS 469 Unix/Linux Administration and Networking, CS 479 Web Programming II
• New requirements
  • CS 101 Fundamentals of Computing, CSS 211 Intro to Computer Security, CSS 331 Files and Database Systems, CSS 210 Intro to Networking
• Total - 21 credits of CS

Computing Science Concentration

• Retain from current requirements
  • CS 201 Computer Science I, CS 202 Computer Science II, MATH 131 Calculus I, MATH 132 Calculus II
• Modifications of current requirements
  • CS 458 - currently Algorithms, becomes Algorithms and Theory of Computation, more credit hours (4?)
  • CS 456 Systems Programming - becomes 4 credit hours?
• New requirements
  • Additional mathematics - choose 9 credits from - MATH 241 Principles of Statistics, MATH 313 Elementary Linear Algebra, MATH 341 Probability and Statistics, MATH 252 Programming in Mathematics
• Total - 16 credits of CS, 8+9 = 17 credits of math

Data Science

New concentration

• Retain from current requirements
  • CS 457 Database Processing, CS 475 Artificial Intelligence, MATH 131 Calculus I, MATH 132 Calculus II
• New requirements
  • MATH 313 Elementary Linear Algebra, MATH 341 Probability and Statistics
  • CS 401 Programming for Data Science I (need to create 400 level version)
• Could also use, but would need to create the 400 level version and confirm with Math group and department chairperson
  • MATH 403/503 Linear Algebra and Modeling for Data Science and Analytics, MATH 440/540 Statistics for Data Science and Analytics
• Total - 9 credits of CS, 8+6 = 14 credits of math

No Longer Required

Courses that are no longer required in any concentration. Can be banked if we don't plan to offer.

• CS 452 Software Engineering, CS 471 Operating Systems, CS 420 Theory of Computation, CS 421 Formal Methods, CS 473 Computer Networks
• Total - 5 courses, 15 credits