Computer Science Minor

Lower-Division Courses

The following are prerequisites for most upper-division Computer Science courses. It is recommended that Computer Science minors complete them first. Other CPSC courses may require additional prerequisites.

• CPSC 120 - Introduction to Programming (3)
• CPSC 121 - Object-Oriented Programming (3)
• CPSC 131 - Data Structures (3)

Electives

• CPSC 223C - C Programming (3)
• CPSC 223J - Java Programming (3)
• CPSC 223N - Visual C# Programming (3)
• CPSC 223P - Python Programming (3)
• CPSC 240 - Computer Organization and Assembly Language (3)
• CPSC 254 - Software Development with Open Source Systems (3)
• CPSC 323 - Compilers and Languages (3)
• CPSC 332 - File Structures and Database Systems (3)
• CPSC 335 - Algorithm Engineering (3)
• CPSC 349 - Web Front-End Engineering (3)
• CPSC 362 - Foundations of Software Engineering (3)
• CPSC 375 - Introduction to Data Science and Big Data (3)
• CPSC 386 - Introduction to Game Design and Production (3)
• CPSC 411 - Mobile Device Application Programming (3)
• CPSC 431 - Database and Applications (3)
• CPSC 439 - Theory of Computation (3)
• CPSC 440 - Computer System Architecture (3)
• CPSC 449 - Web Back-End Engineering (3)
• CPSC 352 - Cryptography (3)
• CPSC 454 - Cloud Computing and Security (3)
• CPSC 456 - Network Security Fundamentals (3)
• CPSC 458 - Malware Analysis (3)
• CPSC 462 - Software Design (3)
• CPSC 463 - Software Testing (3)
• CPSC 466 - Software Process (3)
• CPSC 471 - Computer Communications (3)
• CPSC 474 - Parallel and Distributed Computing (3)
• CPSC 481 - Artificial Intelligence (3)
• CPSC 483 - Introduction to Machine Learning (3)
• CPSC 484 - Principles of Computer Graphics (3)
• CPSC 485 - Computational Bioinformatics (3)
• CPSC 486 - Game Programming (3)