Recommended General Education Requirements for School of Computing Majors

Please meet with a major advisor if you have any concurrent enrollment, early college, AP, transfer coursework, etc. that may count towards these requirements.

Core

 Computer Science (CS)                    Cybersecurity & Network Management (CYBR) WEB & User Experience (WEB)                  
Introductory College Writing
Composition
American Institution (AI) Any Any Any
Quantitative Literacy (QL) or prereqs or
Cultural Competence (CC) CA/CC* CA/CC* or SS/CC*
Breadth Computer Science (CS) Cybersecurity & Network Management (CYBR) WEB & User Experience (WEB)
Creative Arts (CA) Any/CC* Any/CC*
Humanity (HU)
Social Science (SS) for UXD, Any/CC for FSD*
Physical Science (PS) PS with Lab*** OR Any** Any**
Life Science (LS) LS with Lab*** Any** Any**

* CYBR majors:  Recommend double dip Creative Arts and Cultural Competency
  WEB Full Stack Development (FSD) majors: Recommend double dip a Creative Arts or a Social Science with a Cultural Competency.
  WEB User Experience Design (UXD) majors: Recommend double dip a Creative Arts with a Cultural Competency.

** CS, CYBR, and WEB majors: can not duplicate departments (ie, can not take 2 ANTH courses)
    See that are "Any"

*** CS majors: Either the Physical or Life science course must include a lab. See following list for recommended courses.

LIFE SCIENCE (LS)             

  • BTNY 1403 Principles of Environmental Science (4 credits) or
  • HTHS 1110 Integrated Human Anatomy and Physiology I (4 credits) or
  • ZOOL 1610 Principles of Zoology (4 credits) or
  • ZOOL 2420 Human Physiology (4 credits)

PHYSICAL SCIENCE (PS)                                                                             

  • CHEM 1110 Elementary Chemistry and 1115 Lab (5 credits) or
  • CHEM 1130 Introduction to General, Organic & Biochemistry and 1135 Lab (5 credits) or
  • CHEM 1210 Principles of Chem. I and 1215 Lab (5 credits) or
  • GEO 1060 Environmental Geosciences and GEO 1115 Lab (4 credits) or
  • GEO 1110 Dynamic Earth: Physical Geology and GEO 1115 Lab (4 credits) or
  • PHYS 2010 College Physics I and 2019 Lab (5 credits) or
  • PHYS 2210 Physics for Scientists and Engineers I and 2219 Lab (5 credits)