The following provides an overview of information for students interested in minoring in CS; these changes to the curriculum are applicable to students who declare a CS minor after 6/1/2009.

Required Courses

A minor in Computer Science consists of 13-14 credits of coursework. These credits include the following required courses – note that MATH 125 is a prerequisite course to CSCI 127; however, MATH 125 does not count towards the Computer Science Minor.

• CSCI 127 (3 credits, 3 hours) Introduction to Computer Science
• CSCI 133 (3 credits, 3 hours) Programming for Everyone.
• CSCI 232 (3 credits, 3 hours) Relational Databases and SQL Programming    

Plus, a one-credit minor capstone course:

• CSCI 233 (1 credit, 2 hours) Programming Projects Seminar for Minors

In addition, students will be required to take at least one 3-credit elective selected from Computer Science offerings numbered 135 or above. Although you may take any Computer Science course numbered 135 or above, courses that require only one or more of the above courses as prerequisites include:

• CSCI 135 (3 credits , 3 hours) Software Design and Analysis and
  CSCI 136 (1 credit, 2 hours) Co-requisite lab for CSCI 135
• CSCI 150 (3 credits, 3 hours) Discrete Math
• CSCI 267 (3 credits, 3 hours) Microprocessors and Embedded Systems
• CSCI 160 (3 credits, 3 hours) Computer Architecture I (Logic and Design)

Learning Outcomes

After successfully completing a Computer Science minor, students will:

1. understand the relationship between computer architectures and software systems,
   
2. be able to implement the solution to a computing problem in a high-level programming language with a program of non-trivial size,
   
3. be able to manipulate and query data using a relational database system, and
   
4. acquire some more advanced knowledge in an elective area.