Mar 17, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Bulletin

Sample Schedule: Computer Science, BS (124 Semester Hours)

FIRST-YEAR

Fall

S.H.

Spring

S.H.

WSC 001 - Composition  

3

WSC 002 - Composition ​ 

3

CSC 014 - (MA, CS) Discrete Structures for Computer Science I  

3

CSC 024 - Discrete Structures for Computer Science II  

3

CSC 015 - (CS) Fundamentals of Computer Science I: Problem Solving and Program Design  

4

CSC 016 - (CS) Fundamentals of Computer Science II: Data Structures, Algorithms and Object-Oriented Programming  

4

MATH 071 - (MA) Analytic Geometry and Calculus I 

 

4

MATH 072 - (MA) Analytic Geometry and Calculus II ​ 

4

Distribution Course  

3

Distribution Course  

3

Total Semester Hours

17

Total Semester Hours

17


SECOND-YEAR

Fall

S.H.

Spring

S.H.

CSC 017 - (CS) Fundamentals of Computer Science III: Advanced Data Structures and Object-Oriented Programming  

3

CSC 112 - Computer Operating Systems  

3

CSC 110 - Introduction to Computer Architecture  

3

CSC 110A - Computer Architecture Laboratory  

1

Science Elective Course

4-6

CSC 163 - Computing, Ethics, and Society  

1

MATH Elective Course above 072

3

CSC Elective Course

3

Distribution Course  

3

Distribution Course  

3

 

 

Science Elective Course

4-5

Total Semester Hours

16-17

Total Semester Hours

15-16

 

THIRD-YEAR 
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Fall

S.H.

Spring

S.H.

CSC 120 - Algorithms and Data Structures  

3

CSC 161 - Introduction to Automata Theory  

3

CSC 123 - Programming Languages: Survey, Design and Implementation   

3

CSC 190 - Software Engineering  

3

CSC 185 - Methods of Random Process  

3

CSC 194 - Foundations of Leadership and Innovation in Computing  

3

CSC Elective Course

3

CSC Elective Course

3

Science Elective Course

3

Distribution Course  

3

Total Semester Hours

15

Total Semester Hours

15

 

FOURTH-YEAR

Fall

S.H.

Spring

S.H.

CSC 197A - Independent Senior Design I  

1

CSC 197B - Independent Senior Design II  

1

CSC 198F - Senior Seminar  

0.5

CSC 198S - Senior Seminar ​

0.5

CSC Elective Course

3

Elective Course

3

Distribution Course  

3

Elective Course

3

Elective Course

6

Elective Course

3

 

 

Elective Course

3

Total Semester Hours

15.5

Total Semester Hours

13.5

Program Total

124

 

Upated April 2023