Undergraduate Programs
Bachelor of Science in CS (prior to Fall 2007)

• CS Undergraduate Advisor Listing
  Undergraduate students are required to be advised before they are able to register for classes the next semester. The advising hold will not be removed unless you are advised. Typical advising sign-up week is the 9^th week of Fall and Spring semester and advising is during the 10^th.

  Find your advisor from the list and sign-up for advising with your advisor during the 9^th week and then be present at that appointment to be advised. Once you are advised, the necessary paperwork is filled and submitted to the CS Student Affairs office (905 SEO), who will remove your advising hold.

  Questions regarding advising can be directed to the CS Student Affairs Office, 905 SEO. Phone: 312-413-4950 / 312-9960 or E-mail: ugrad@cs.uic.edu.

• Information for Prospective Students
• Student Graduation Objectives
• Undergraduate curriculum for students entering IN OR AFTER Fall 2007
  
  • Required for the Bachelor of Science in CS
  • Required for the Bachelor of Science in CS, Computer System Concentration
  • Required for the Bachelor of Science in CS, Software Engineering Concentration
• Undergraduate curriculum for students who entered BEFORE Fall 2007
  
  • Required for the Bachelor of Science in CS
  • Required for the Bachelor of Science in CS, Computer System Concentration
  • Required for the Bachelor of Science in CS, Software Engineering Concentration

Required for the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

(128 semester hours)

• Engl 160--English Composition I (3 hrs)
• Engl 161--English Composition II (3 hrs)
• Math 180--Calculus I (5 hrs)
• Math 181--Calculus II (5 hrs)
• Math 210--Calculus III (3 hrs)
• (Lab) Science/Engineering Electives (described below) (12 hrs)
  • Lab Science Sequence (8-10 hrs)
  • Science/Engineering Electives (2-4 hrs)
• Humanities electives (6 hrs)
• Social sciences electives (6 hrs)
• Humanities/social sciences/art electives (18 hrs)

  Note: Humanities and social sciences electives must be selected from a list of approved courses provided by the College of Engineering. One of the humanities/social sciences/art or free electives must be selected to meet the Cultural Diversity requirement. Choices for the lab science elective are below. Science/engineering and arts electives must be selected from a list of approved courses provided by the CS Department. More explanation of the science requirement is given below.

• Total: (61 hrs)

• CS 101--Introduction to Computing (3 hrs)
• CS 102--Introduction to Programming (3 hrs)
• CS 201--Data Structures and Discrete Mathematics I (4 hrs)
• CS 202--Data Structures and Discrete Mathematics II (3 hrs)
• CS 266--Computer Architecture I: Logic and Computer Structures (4 hrs)
• CS 301--Languages and Automata (3 hrs)
• CS 335--Computer Ethics (2 hrs)
• CS 340--Software Design (4 hrs)
• CS 366--Computer Architecture II: Hardware-Software Interface (4 hrs)
• CS 376--Practicum in Computer Science Oral Presentations (1 hrs)
• CS 385--Operating Systems Concepts and Design (4 hrs)
• CS 401--Computer Algorithms I (3 hrs)
• Engr 100--Orientation (0 hrs)
  Engr 100 carries one equivalent hour; does not carry credit towards graduation.
• Total: (38 hrs)

• Students must complete at least 15 hours from among the following technical elective courses, of which at most one may be from any department outside Computer Science.

  • CS 398--Undergraduate Design/Research (3 hrs)
  • CS 411--Artificial Intelligence I (3 hrs)
  • CS 415--Computer Vision I (3 hrs)
  • CS 421--Natural Language Processing (3 hrs)
  • CS 422--User Interface Design and Programming (3 hrs)
  • CS 426--Video Game Design and Development (3 hrs)
  • CS 440--Introduction to Software Engineering (3 hrs)
  • CS 450--Introduction to Networking (3 hrs)
  • CS 455--Design and Implementation of Network Protocols (3 hrs)
  • CS 466--Advanced Computer Architecture (3 hrs)
  • CS 469--Computer Systems Design (3 hrs)
  • CS 472--Testing and Verification of Real-Time Software (3 hrs)
  • CS 473--Compiler Design (3 hrs)
  • CS 474--Object-Oriented Languages and Environments (3 hrs)
  • CS 476--Programming Language Design (3 hrs)
  • CS 480--Database Systems (4 hrs)
  • CS 485--Networked Operating Systems Programming (4 hrs)
  • CS 488--Computer Graphics I (3 hrs)
  • MCS 320--Introduction to Symbolic Computation (3 hrs)
  • MCS 471--Numerical Analysis (3 hrs)
  • MCS 481--Computational Geometry (3 hrs)
  • Stat 471--Linear and Non-Linear Programming (3 hrs)
• Total: (15 hrs)

Students must complete at least 9 hours from among the following list of courses, with at least one course taken from IE 342 (Probability and Statistics for Engineers), Stat 381 (Applied Statistical Methods), or Stat 401 (Introduction to Probability).

• One of the following three courses must be chosen: (3 hrs)
  • IE 342--Probability and Statistics for Engineers (3 hrs)
  • Stat 381--Applied Statistical Methods (3 hrs)
  • Stat 401--Introduction to Probability (3 hrs)
    Students may take both Stat 381 and Stat 401, although students who take IE 342 will not receive credit for either Stat course.
• Math 215--Introduction to Advanced Mathematics (3 hrs)
• Math 220--Introduction to Differential Equations (3 hrs)
• One of the following two courses may be chosen: (3 hrs)
  • Math 310--Applied Linear Algebra (3 hrs)
  • Math 320--Linear Algebra I (3 hrs)
• Math 430--Formal Logic I (3 hrs)
• Math 435--Foundations of Number Theory (3 hrs)
• Math 436--Number Theory for Applications (3 hrs)
• MCS 421--Combinatorics (3 hrs)
• MCS 423--Graph Theory (3 hrs)
• MCS 471--Numerical Analysis (3 hrs)
• Stat 473--Game Theory (3 hrs)
• Total: (9 hrs)

Note that students may choose to use MCS 471, Numerical Analysis, as either a CS technical elective (from outside the Computer Science Department) or as a required mathematics course, but not both.

Lab Science/Engineering Science Electives

Every student must take one of the two-course lab sequences from Biological Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences, or Physics. (In Chemistry, either the sequence Chem 112, Chem 114, orthe sequence Chem 116, Chem 118 may be chosen.) The choices are in the list below. Additionally, students must take a total of at least 12 credit hours, including that sequence, in the science and engineering science area. Additional courses may be other courses on this list, courses that have any of these courses as prerequisites, or other courses from a list maintained by the Computer Science Department of certain additional courses in Engineering, and quantitative social sciences.

• BioS 100--Biology of Cells and Organisms (5 hrs)
• BioS 101--Biology of Populations and Communities (5 hrs)
• Chem 112--General Chemistry I (5 hrs)
• Chem 114--General Chemistry II (5 hrs)
• Chem 116--Honors General Chemistry I (5 hrs)
• Chem 118--Honors General Chemistry II (5 hrs)
• Phys 141--General Physics I (Mechanics) (4 hrs)
• Phys 142--General Physics II (Electricity and Magnetism (4 hrs)
• EaES 101--Introduction to Earth and Environmental Sciences I (5 hrs)
• EaES 102--Introduction to Earth and Environmental Sciences II (5 hrs)
• Total: (12 hrs)

5 semester hours.

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