Computer Science Courses
Updated: 25 April 2008
Computer Science courses are incorporated into such other majors as Biology,
Criminal Justice, Mathematics, Operations Management/ Management Information
Systems, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology, and may be taken
as free electives by students in any discipline.
Computer Science courses
may not be used to satisfy the College's laboratory science sequence requirement.
However, for non-CSC majors, either of the courses CSC 200A
or CSC 201J may be used as a Division II Distribution elective.
The course CSC 200A may also be used to
satisfy the College's Computer Literacy Competency-Based Skills Core requirement.
Many Computer Science
courses have scheduled and supervised laboratory sessions in addition to the three
hours per week in scheduled lectures. Even those courses without formally
scheduled laboratory sessions may require the completion of assignments in one
of the Department's computer laboratories. In the latter
case, students will arrange this laboratory time to fit their individual schedules.
All but one of the former CSC courses with numbers
below 200 were relabeled with the prefix ITC ("Information Technology") and are found
in a separate list. These are are service courses, and
may not be used as part of the Computer and Information Studies Major
or Minor. The course CSC184 also may not be used as part of the
Computer Science major or minor.
Courses marked (*) in the list below are required in the
Computer and Information Studies major. One of the following courses dealing
with a high-level programming language other than the one used in the CSC 201J-202J sequence
must be taken: CSC 245A, CSC 273,
CSC 311 or CSC 312A.
In addition, one of seven possible two-course options
(see the Computer and Information Studies Major description)
and two CSC electives must be chosen.
For a summary of prerequisites
and possible course sequences, see the Course Sequence
Diagram.
For several of the following courses,
the current implementation language(s) used in the course are indicated in (italics)
after the course title.
Effective as of September 2002, the former sequence CSC 201-202
was renumbered CSC 201J-202J and now includes regularly scheduled twice-weekly laboratory sessions.
As of January 2003, several other CSC courses in the following list were retitled and/or renumbered,
and several have had the credits increased because of the addition of scheduled laboratories.
In September 2003 a new required course, CSC 215 (Survey of Computer Science II)
was added to the curriculum.
(Note: For the
Fall 2003 semester only, this course was offered under a different number: CSC 430 Topics in
Computer Science.)
All of these changes are summarized in the table at the bottom
of this page. In the main list, all courses are designated by their current numbers.
* Courses marked with an asterisk in the following list are required
in the Computer and Information Studies major.
| CSC
200A* |
Introduction to Computer Networks |
3 cr. |
| CSC
200A* |
Survey of Computer Science I |
3 cr. |
| CSC
201J* |
Software Design and
Programming I (Java) |
4 cr. |
| CSC
202J* |
Software Design and
Programming II (Java) |
4 cr. |
| CSC
215* |
Survey of Computer Science II |
4 cr. |
| CSC
221 |
Theory of Computer Graphics
(Visual Basic) |
3 cr. |
| CSC
230 |
Real-Time Computer Interfaces |
3 cr. |
| CSC
245A |
Computer Applications
in Science and Mathematics (Fortran 90) |
4 cr. |
| CSC
260* |
Data Structures and Algorithms
(Java) |
4 cr. |
| CSC
263 |
Database Systems (Oracle) |
4 cr. |
| CSC
267 |
Internship in Computer Science |
1-6 cr. |
CSC
271 |
Introduction to Computer
Systems (SPARC assembly language
(© Sun Microsystems),
Linux, Perl) |
4 cr. |
| CSC
273 |
Advanced Applications
of C |
4 cr. |
| CSC
280* |
Operating System Principles |
3 cr. |
| CSC
290 |
Theory of Computation |
3 cr. |
| CSC
295* |
Computer Architecture
and Organization |
3 cr. |
| CSC
300* |
Software Engineering I |
4 cr. |
| CSC
301 |
Software Engineering II |
4 cr. |
| CSC
311 |
Object Orientation and
Problem Solving Strategies (C++) |
4 cr. |
CSC
312A |
Human-Computer Interfaces
(Visual Basic, C++, and/or Java) |
4 cr. |
| CSC
315A |
Principles of Data Comunications |
4 cr. |
| CSC
320 |
Advanced File Structures (Java) |
4 cr. |
| CSC
325 |
Advanced Programming
Techniques |
4 cr. |
| CSC
330A |
Microcomputing Systems |
4 cr. |
| CSC
340 |
Artificial Intelligence |
3 cr. |
| CSC
390 |
Compiler Construction |
4 cr. |
| CSC
415 |
Analysis of Algorithms |
3 cr. |
| CSC
430 |
Topics in Computer Science |
3 cr. |
| CSC
445 |
Parallel Processing |
4 cr. |
| CSC
475 |
Distributed Systems |
4 cr. |
| CSC
498* |
Project Design/Specification
Practicum |
1 cr. |
| CSC
500* |
Directed Study in Computer
Science I |
3 cr. |
| CSC
501 |
Directed Study in Computer
Science II |
3 cr. |
Current course numbers, titles, and/or credits:
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