Computer Science Degree Requirements

• Prerequisite Chart
• Typical Schedule by Semester
• Projected Schedule of Courses
• The students admitted to the program before Summer 2013 should use these requirements.
• The students admitted to the program before Fall 2010 should use these requirements.

1. General Education and Entrance into Major Requirements (55 credits)

2. Core Requirements (65 credits)

3. Additional Requirements

4. List of C or Higher Required Courses

• English (9 credits)

	ENGL 015S [GWS]	Rhetoric and Composition     or     ENGL 030S [GWS]
	ENGL 202C [GWS]	Effective Writing: Technical Writing
	CAS 100 [GWS]	Effective Speech

• Mathematics (10 credits)

	MATH 140* [GQ]	Calculus With Analytic Geometry I (4 credits)
	MATH 141* [GQ]	Calculus with Analytic Geometry II (4 credits)
	MATH 220 [GQ]	Matrices (2 credits)

• Computer Science (6 credits)

	CMPSC 121* [GQ]	Introduction to Programming Techniques
	CMPSC 122*	Intermediate Programming

• Natural Sciences


	PHYS 211 [GN]	General Physics: Mechanics (4 credits)
	Additional 5 credits of any courses with a GN suffix (PHYS 212 recommended)

• Arts†
    6 credits of any courses with a GA suffix

• Humanities†
    6 credits of any courses with a GH suffix

• Social & Behavioral Sciences†
    6 credits of any courses with a GS suffix

• Health & Physical Activities
    3 credits of any courses with a GHA suffix

* Computer Science students must receive a grade of C or better in this course.
† Students may apply 9-6-3 rule.

• Required Computer Science Courses (36 credits)†
	CMPSC 221	Object Oriented Programming with Web-Based Applications
	CMPSC 312	Computer Organization and Architecture
	CMPSC 360*	Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science
	CMPSC 430	Database Design
	CMPSC 460	Principles of Programming Languages
	CMPSC 462	Data Structures
	CMPSC 463	Design and Analysis of Algorithms
	CMPSC 469	Formal Languages with Applications
	CMPSC 470	Compiler Construction
	CMPSC 472	Operating System Concepts
	CMPSC 487W	Software Engineering and Design
	CMPSC 488	Computer Science Project

• Required Mathematics Courses (3 credits)
Select one course from the following.
	STAT 301	Statistical Analysis I
	STAT 318	Elementary Probability
	MATH 318	Elementary Probability


* Computer Science students must receive a grade of C or better in this course.
† Students must earn a 2.5 or higher grade point average in the Required Computer Science Courses. No class in this list of Required Computer Science Courses can be taken using the Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading system.

• Technical Electives (15 credits)
Select at least 15 credits from the following. Other courses are to be chosen in consultation with the advisor and with program approval. At least 9 of these technical elective credits must be from courses with a CMPSC prefix.
	CMPSC 313	Assembly Language Programming
	CMPSC 412	Data Structures Lab (1.5 credits)
	CMPSC 413	Algorithms Lab (1.5 credits)
	CMPSC 414	Contest Programming (1 credit)
	CMPSC 421	Net-Centric Computing
	CMPSC 426	Object-Oriented Design
	CMPSC 428	Programming in Ada
	CMPSC 438	Computer Network Architecture and Programming
	CMPSC 441	Artificial Intelligence
	CMPSC 444	Secure Programming
	CMPSC 455	Introduction to Numerical Analysis I
	CMPSC 457	Computer Graphics Algorithms
	CMPSC 475	Mobile Applications Programming
	CMPSC 496	Independent Studies
	CMPSC 497	Special Topics
	MATH 401	Introduction to Analysis I
	MATH 411	Ordinary Differential Equations
	MATH 412	Fourier Series and Partial Differential Equations
	MATH 425	Introduction to Operations Research
	MATH 430	Linear Algebra and Discrete Models I
	MATH 431	Linear Algebra and Discrete Models II
	MATH 435	Basic Abstract Algebra
	MATH 448	Mathematics of Finance
	MATH 449	Applied Ordinary Differential Equations
	MATH 450	Mathematical Modeling
	MATH 455	Introduction to Numerical Analysis I
	MATH 465	Number Theory
	MATH 468	Mathematical Coding Theory
	MATH 485	Graph Theory
	MATH 496	Independent Studies
	MATH 497	Special Topics in Mathematics

• Additional Electives (11 credits)
    6 credits from courses at 300-400 level and 5 credits from courses at 100-400 level are to be chosen in consultation with the advisor and with program approval.

• First-Year Seminar, 1 credit of any course with a S, T, X, or PSU designations. This requirement will typically be satisfied by ENGL 015S or ENGL 030S.

• United States Cultures and International Cultures Requirements: 3 credits of any course with a US designation and 3 credits of any course with an IL designation. These can be satisfied simultaneously with any of the above requirements, or any course in the degree requirements.

• Writing Across the Curriculum requirement is satisfied by CMPSC 487W, a required course in the COMP degree program.

• Students in the Computer Science (COMP_BS) major are required to complete 21 of the 27 credits of 400-level prescribed courses for the major, including the senior capstone course, at Penn State Harrisburg. This is in compliance with Faculty Senate Policy 83-80.5.

    Computer Science students must receive a grade of C or better in the following courses:

• CMPSC 121, 122, 360

• MATH 140, 141