2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog


Computer Science

Computer science is available as a major on the BS degree and as a minor on the BA and BS degrees.

Honors College

Computer science and computer information technology majors who are members of the Honors College and who have a minimum 3.5 GPA in the major may pursue Departmental Honors by enrolling in COSC 50970 during the fall of their senior year and preparing a Senior Honors Project.

Pass/No-Credit Option

See the Bachelor's Degree Definitions and Regulations in the Bachelor's Degree section of the University requirements.

Up to (but no more than) 3 hours earned in elective courses that are offered only on a pass/no-credit basis may be applied to meet major or minor requirements within the College of Science & Engineering. Additional hours in such courses may be used as free electives or for majors or minors in other colleges (as permitted by those colleges).

Computer Science Student Organizations

Association for Computing Machinery

The department sponsors a student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an international organization for computer scientists.

IEEE/CS

The department sponsors a student chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Computer Society, an international organization for computer scientists.

Upsilon Pi Epsilon

The department sponsors a chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the International Honor Society for the Computing Sciences.