Computer Science, B.S. - 120 units

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Summary of Units:

Lower Division Major Requirements	42
Upper Division Major Requirements	38
Additional General Education and other Graduation Requirements	40
Total Units	120

Special Grade Requirement

A grade of C- or better is required in all pre-requisite courses in the major

Lower Division Requirements - 42 units

COMP 150 - Object-Oriented Programming Units: 4
COMP 151 - Data Structures And Program Design Units: 4
COMP 162 - Computer Architecture and Assembly Language Units: 3
COMP 232 - Programming Languages Units: 3
COMP 262 - Computer Organization and Architecture Units: 3
MATH 150 - Calculus I Units: 4
MATH 151 - Calculus II Units: 4
MATH 230 - Logic and Mathematical Reasoning (Cross-listed as PHIL 230) Units: 3
MATH 240 - Linear Algebra Units: 3

Science - 11 units

Complete one of the science sequences below:

PHYS 200 - General Physics I Units: 4
PHYS 201 - General Physics II Units: 4
A course from GE Area B2 Units: 3
or
PHYS 200 - General Physics I
Units: 4
BIOL 200 - Principles of Organismal and Population Biology Units: 4
BIOL 212 - Neurobiology and Cognitive Science (Cross-listed as PSY 212) Units: 3

Upper Division Requirements - 38 units

Required Courses - 23 units

COMP 350 - Introduction To Software Engineering Units: 3
COMP 362 - Operating Systems Units: 4
COMP 454 - Automata, Languages, and Computation Units: 3
COMP 491 - Capstone Preparation Units: 1
COMP 499 - Capstone Project Units: 3
MATH 300 - Discrete Mathematics Units: 3
MATH 352 - Probability and Statistics Units: 3
MATH 354 - Analysis of Algorithms (Cross-listed as COMP 354) Units: 3

Electives - 15 units

Complete 15 units from the following:
COMP 345 - Digital Image Processing (Cross-listed as PHYS 345, MATH 345) Units: 3
COMP 347 - Online Communication and Society (Cross-listed as COMM 347) Units: 3
COMP 351 - Distributed Computing Units: 3
COMP 420 - Database Theory and Design (Cross-listed as IT 420) Units: 3
COMP 424 - Computer System Security (Cross-listed as IT 424) Units: 3
COMP 425 - Computer Game Programming Units: 3
COMP 429 - Computer Networks (Cross-listed as IT 429) Units: 3
COMP 445 - Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition (Cross-listed as PHYS 445, MATH 445) Units: 3
COMP 451 - Advanced Object-Oriented Programming Units: 3
COMP 452 - Computational Bioinformatics (Cross-listed as MATH 452) Units: 4
COMP 462 - Embedded Systems (Cross-listed as EMEC 462) Units: 3
COMP 464 - Computer Graphic Systems And Design I (Cross-listed as IT 464, ART 464) Units: 3
COMP 469 - Introduction To Artificial Intelligence Units: 3
COMP 470 - Mobile Robotics (Cross-listed as EMEC 470) Units: 3
COMP 478 - Introduction To Data Mining Units: 3
COMP 490 - Topics in Computer Science Units: 3
COMP 492 - Internship Units: 1 - 3
COMP 494 - Independent Research Units: 1-3
COMP 497 - Directed Studies Units: 3
MATH 429 - Operations Research Units: 3
MATH 448 - Scientific Computing Units: 3

Additional General Education and other Graduation Requirements

To graduate, students must complete 120 units minimum (40 units must be upper division), including the following General Education (GE) and Graduation Requirements :

Additional lower division GE Area A-E requirements not met within major
American Institutions Requirement
Language Requirement (C- or better grade)
Multicultural Perspectives (MP) Mission Pillar Requirement
Nine units of Upper Division General Education (UDGE) courses, one each in Areas UDGE-B, UDGE-C, and UDGE-D
Free electives as needed to meet minimum units for graduation