Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Key Courses
Mathematics:
MATH 1170 Calculus I 4 cr
MATH 1175 Calculus II 4 cr
MATH 2240 Linear Algebra 3 cr
Chemistry:
CHEM 1111,1111L, and CHEM 1112,1112L
General Chemistry I, II, and Labs 9 cr
OR
Physics:
PHYS 2211, 2213, 2212, and 2214
Engineering Physics I, II 10 cr
Computer Science:
CS 1181 Computer Science and Programming I 3 cr
CS 1182 Computer Science and Programming II 3 cr
CS/MATH 1187 Applied Discrete Structures 3 cr
CS 2282 Advanced Computer Programming 3 cr
CS 2263 Advanced Object-oriented Programming 3 cr
The program of study for the Bachelor of Science
in Computer Science
degree totals 130 credits as follows:
General Education and
Mathematics Requirements (40-46 credits minimum)
Students pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science must
complete the University's General Education Requirements using the
following courses:
Goal 1 ENGL 1102, Critical Reading and Writing 3 cr
Goal 2 COMM 1101, Principles of Speech 3 cr
Goal 3 MATH 1170, Calculus I 4 cr
Goals 4 and 5 are met by taking EITHER of the following
sequences plus two additional courses in the physical
or biological sciences, to total 15 or 16 cr:
CHEM 1111, 1111L and CHEM 1112, 1112L
General Chemistry I and II, and Labs 9 cr
OR
PHYS 2211,2214 Engineering Physics I, II,
and Labs 10 cr
Two additional courses* in the physical and
biological sciences 6 cr
Any two of Goals 6, 7, and 8 6 cr
Any three of Goals 9, 10 (A or B), 11, and 12 9 or 14 cr
*Please consult with a CS
advisor for a list of approved courses.
Additional Mathematics
Courses (10 credits):
MATH 1175 Calculus II 4 cr
MATH 2240 Linear Algebrar 3 cr
MATH 3352 Introduction to Probability 3 cr
Major Core
Requirements (53 credits)
Computer Science students must complete the following group of core
courses:
CS 1181 Computer Science and Programming I 3 cr
CS 1182 Computer Science and Programming II 3 cr
CS/MATH 1187 Applied Discrete Structures 3 cr
CS 2263 Advanced Object-oriented Programming 3 cr
CS 2282 Advanced Computer Programming 3 cr
CS 3321 Fundamentals of Software Engineering 3 cr
CS 3385 Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis I 3 cr
CS 3386 Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis II 3 cr
CS 4451 Database Theory and Implementation 3 cr
CS 4460 Comparative Programming Languages 3 cr
CS 4475 Computer Architecture and Organization 3 cr
CS 4477 Operating Systems 3 cr
CS 4491 Computer Science Ethical-Societal Issues 3 cr
CS 4496A Project Design I 3 cr
CS 4496B Project Design II 3 cr
EE 2274 Introduction to Digital Systems 3 cr
ENGR 3360 Engineering Economics 2 cr
ENGL 3307 Professional and Technical Writing 3 cr
Major Elective Requirements (12
credits):
Computer Science students must complete twelve
credits of upper
division major elective coursework, chosen from the following list:*
CIS 4411 Intermediate Information Assurance*** 3 cr
CIS 4485 Network and Communication Systems III 3 cr
CiS 4487 Software Systems Study
of the Software Implementation Process*** 3 cr
CIS 4491 Seminar in Computer Information Systems**,*** 3 cr
CS 3331 Web Programming 3 cr
CS 3342 Computer Graphics 3 cr
CS 3343 Neural Networks 3 cr
CS 3344 Artificial Intelligence 3 cr
CS 4420 Cryptography and Security 3 cr
CS 4442 Graphical User Interfaces 3 cr
CS 4444 Image and Audio Processing 3 cr
CS 4445 Data Compression 3 cr
CS 4470 Parallel Processing 3 cr
CS 4480 Theory of Computation 3 cr
CS 4481 Compilers and Lexical Analysis 3 cr
CS 4487 Topics in Computer Science 3 cr
EE 3345 Signals and Systems 3 cr
EE 4413 Techniques of Computer-aided
Circuit Analysis and Design 3 cr
EE 4417 Probabilistic Signals and Systems 3 cr
EE 4427 Embedded Systems Engineering 3 cr
EE 4475 Digital Signal Processing 3 cr
EE 4494 Embedded Systems and Control Laboratory 1 cr
EE 4499 Special Topics** 3 cr
ENGR 3364 Engineering Numerical Techniques 3 cr
MATH 4441 Introduction to Numerical Analysis I 3 cr
MATH 4442 Introduction to Numerical Analysis II 3 cr
MATH 4465 Partial Differential Equations 3 cr
* Other choices may be approved by Computer
Science advisors on an
individual basis.
** With prior advisor approval.
*** No more than 6 credits of business/CIS courses from this list may
be applied toward degree requirements.
Additional Electives (14-15 credits)
- Students must take enough additional elective
courses to total at least 130 credits.
- A minimum of 64 non-computing credits must be
taken in meeting graduation requirements.
- Passing grades are required in all courses, and at
least a 2.00 GPA is required for graduation.
Minor in Computer Science
Students receiving degrees in all colleges may
satisfy the requirements
for a Minor in Computer Science (CS) by completing the following
courses. Students pursuing this minor must consult with a CS advisor
early in their program to complete a Program of Study Agreement.
Required
Courses:
CS 1181 Computer Science and Programming I 3 cr
CS 1182 Computer Science and Programming II 3 cr
CS/MATH 1187 Applied Discrete Structures 3 cr
CS 2263 Advanced Object-oriented Programming 3 cr
CS 2282 Advanced Computer Programming 3 cr
MATH 1170 Calculus I 4 cr
MATH 1175 Calculus II 4 cr
Computing
Electives:
Six upper division credits in Computer Science, Computer Information
Systems, or Electrical Engineering, chosen with the approval of a
Computer Science advisor.
Computer Science Courses
CS 1181
Computer Science and Programming I 3
credits. Problem solving methods and algorithm development with
an
emphasis on programming style. Lecture and laboratory. Equivalent
to NE 1181. PRE-or-COREQ: MATH
1143 or MATH 1147. F, S
CS 1182
Computer Science and Programming II 3
credits. Continuation of CS 1181, including such topics as data
structures, sorts, searches, recursion, and object-oriented programming
concepts. PREREQ: CS 1181. PRE-or-COREQ: MATH 1170. F, S
CS 1187 Applied
Discrete Structures 3 credits.
Discrete structures in CS and EE. Boolean algebra and logic; sets,
functions, and relations; iteration, recursion, and induction;
algorithms; programming in pseudocode; basic counting principles;
graphs and trees; and other selected topics from discrete
mathematics. Equvalent to MATH 1187. PREREQ: CS 1181.
S
CS 2263
Advanced Object-oriented Programming 3
credits. Advanced programming in a modern object-oriented
language,
different from the one used in CS 1181 and CS 1182; philosophy,
application, and examples of object-oriented concepts and techniques;
comprehensive survey of software-engineering design patterns. PREREQ:
CS 1182. S
CS 2282
Advanced Computer Programming 3 credits.
Further supervised programming experience, covering advanced features
of the language used in CS 1182. Includes the use of a Unix-like
operating system. PREREQ: CS 1182. F
CS 3321
Fundamentals of Software Engineering 3
credits. Formal approaches and tools for conceiving, designing,
building, testing, deploying, maintaining, and documenting large
software systems; software lifecycle models; project and team
management; verification and validation techniques; legal and ethical
issues. Includes a major software development project. PREREQ: CS 2263
or CS 2282, and admission to major. F
CS 3331 Web
Programming 3 credits. HTML, server-
and client-side programming, web-based database programming. PREREQ: CS
2263. R2
CS 3342
Computer Graphics 3 credits. Covers
raster graphics, primitives, scan conversion, geometric
transformations, object hierarchies, curves and surfaces, solid
modeling, visible surface determination, illumination, shading,
manipulation and advanced modeling techniques. PREREQ: CS 2263 and MATH
2240. R2
CS 3343 Neural
Networks 3 credits. Survey of
neural network architectures and applications. Training algorithms,
multi-layer perceptrons, backpropagation, learning and generalization,
Hopfield and recurrent nets. PREREQ: CS 2263, CS/MATH 1187, MATH 2275,
and MATH 3352. R2
CS 3344
Artificial Intelligence 3 credits.
Fundamental principles and techniques of artificial intelligence
systems; search strategies; knowledge acquisition and representation;
commonsense reasoning; planning; machine learning; expert systems;
intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. PRE-or-COREQ: CS 3386. R2
CS 3385 Data
Structures and Algorithm Analysis I
3 credits. Analysis and design of non-numeric algorithms which
act on
data structures. PREREQ: CS 2263 or CS 2282, and admission to major,
and either CS/MATH 1187 or MATH 2240. F
CS 3386 Data
Structures and Algorithm Analysis
II 3 credits. Continuation of CS 3385. PREREQ: CS 3385. S
CS 4420
Computer Security and Cryptography 3
credits. Public key and private key cryptography, key
distribution,
cryptographic protocols, requisite mathematics and selected topics in
the development of security and cryptography. PREREQ: CS 3385. R2
CS 4442 GUI
Development 3 credits. Planning and
construction of Graphical User Interfaces and discussion of essential
software engineering concepts. Includes the use of a modern toolkit
language. PRE-or-COREQ: CS 3385. R2
CS 4444 Image
and Audio Processing 3 credits.
Image/audio acquisition, quantization, spatial and spectral filters,
sharpening, smoothing, restoration, compression, segmentation, Fourier
and Wavelet transforms. PREREQ: CS/MATH 1187, MATH 3352, and MATH 3360.
R2
CS 4445 Data
Compression 3 credits. A survey of
modern techniques of data compression, both lossy and loss-less, and
encryption. PRE-or-COREQ: CS 3386. R2
CS 4451
Database Theory and Implementation 3
credits. Data models, relational algebra, SQL, data
storage, index
structures, query compilation and execution, concurrency control.
PREREQ: CS 2263 and CS 3385. PRE-or-COREQ: CS 3386. S
CS 4460
Comparative Programming Languages 3
credits. Design of historical and contemporary programming
languages, concentrating on promoting understanding of structural
organization, data structures and typing, name structures, and control
structures. PREREQ: CS 3385. PRE-or-COREQ: CS 4475. F
CS 4470
Parallel Processing 3 credits. Topics in
high-performance computing: parallel architectures, SIMD, MIND, SMP,
NUMA models, message passing, cache coherency issues, MPI, PVM,
parallel programming languages, cluster and grid approaches,
applications and experience programming on a cluster. PRE-or-COREQ: CS
3385. R2
CS 4475
Computer Architecture and Organization 3
credits. Design, implementation, and performance evaluation of
modern
computer systems; instruction sets; datapath and control optimizations;
single-cycle, multiple-cycle, and pipelined processors; hazard
detection and resolution; memory hierarchies; peripheral devices.
PREREQ: EE 2274. F
CS 4477
Operating Systems 3 credits. Processes
description and control, threads, concurrency, memory management
scheduling, I/O and files, distributed systems, security, networking.
PREREQ: CS 2263 and CS 4475. S
CS 4480 Theory
of Computation 3 credits. Finite
representations of languages, deterministic and nondeterministic finite
automata, context free languages, regular languages, parsing, Turing
Machines, Church’s Thesis, uncomputability, computational
complexity classes. PRE-or-COREQ: CS 3385. R2
CS 4481
Compilers and Lexical Analysis 3
credits. Covers lexical analysis, syntax analysis, top-down,
bottom-up,
and LR parsing, syntax-directed translation, type checking, code
generation and optimization, writing a compiler PRE-or-COREQ: CS
3386. R2
CS 4482 Independent Problems 1-3
credits.
Students are assigned to, or request assignment to, independent
problems on the basis of interest and preparation. May be repeated for
a maximum of 6 credits. Equvalent to CE/ENGR/EE 4481. PREREQ:
Permission of instructor. D
CS 4487 Topics in Computer
Science 3 credits. Selected topics in Computer Science will be
chosen depending on the instructor’s interests. PREREQ: CS 3386. D
CS 4491 Computer Science
Ethical-Societal Issues 3 credits.
Investigate various ethical issues arising in the profession, ranging
from research to commercial settings. The societal impacts of computing
and its prevalence in all aspects of the modern world are investigated.
Seminar format: students will read papers, make oral presentations,
conduct class discussion, and submit written reports. F
CS 4496A Project Design I 3
credits.
Semester one of a two semester sequence dealing with the conceptual
design of multi-disciplinary projects requiring multi-disciplinary
teams. Equvalent to CE/EE/ENGR/ME 4496A. PREREQ: Approval of
application for admission to course. F
CS 4496B Project Design II 3
credits.
Continuation of design sequence dealing with the design, analysis,
implementation, and consequences of multi-disciplinary projects.
Equvalent to CE/EE/ENGR/ME 4496B. PREREQ: CS 4496A. S
