COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
 


Recommended program of study in CS

Fall

 

Spring


First Year

COSC 1172 Thinkig, Speaking, Writing   COSC 1337 Principles of CS II
COSC 1173 Programming Laborator   ENGL Composition II
COSC 1336 Principles of CSI   MATH 2305 Discrete Structures
ENGL Comp I   Communications | Modern Language2
PHIL 1370 Philosophy of Knowledge   Fine Arts Elective
MATH 2413 Calculus & Anal. Geo. I   PEGA

Second Year

COSC 2336 Data Structure & Algorithms   COSC 2372 Cptr Org & Assembly
MATH 2414 Calculus & Analytic Geo II   MATH 1342 | 3370 Prob & Stat
PHYS 2425  

PHYS 2426

ENG Literature   Lab Science6
History 13   History 23
 
Third Year

COSC 3304 Obj. Or. Design & Interfaces   COSC 3308 Programming Languages
MATH 2318 | 3401   CPSC 4340 Data Base Design
ELEN 2300 | ELEN 3331 | CPSC 3310   COSC 3325 Computer Law & Ethics
CPSC 3320 Computer Networks   MATH 4360 Cmp Mod Alg | 2415 Cal III
POLS 2301 Amer Gov I   POLS 2302 Amer Gov II
 
Fourth Year

COSC 4302 Operating Systems   CPSC 4360 Software Engineering
COSC 4310 Computer Architecture   COSC | CPSC | ELEN Elective7
CPSC 3302 Computer Theory   COSC | CPSC | ELEN Elective7
Fine Arts Elective5   COSC 4172 Senior Assessment
    Advanced Academic Elective8
 

Notes (120 total hours):
(1) Changes and Substitutions must be approved by the department chair.
(2)Second semester communication modern language courses must be chosen from the following courses :1315, 1360, 2335, 2373, 3310, or 3340 or CMDS 2375; or an introductory morden language course.
(3) Two semesters of US or Texas history from HIST 1301, 1302, 2373, 2374, 1361, 1362, 2377, 2301.
(4) Social Science Electives are: ECON 1301, PSYC 2301, ANTH 2346 or 2351, SOCI 1301, or (both ECON 2302 & ECON 2301).
(5) Fine Arts Electives are: ARTS 1301, DANC 2304, HUMA 1315, MUSI 1306, or THEA 1310.
(6) Lab Science may be an advanced Physics Lab course or CHEM 1411, BIOL 1406, or GEOL 1403.
(7) Acceptable COSC/CPSC/ELEN electives are: any of the alternative courses listed above as well as COSC 2370 | 4301 | 4309 | 4319; CPSC 4315 | 4320 | 4330 | 4370; ELEN 3381 | 4386 | 4387 | 4390 | 4304 (with approval).
(8) Students are encouraged to use these electives to specialize in a computer related area. COSC/CPSC/ELEN classes may be taken as academic electives.

 

BACHELOR DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE


The Computer Science program at Lamar is a broad-based program in Computer Science emphasizing the areas of programming languages, data structures, information systems, theory of programming languages, software engineering, networking, database, multimedia, applications of computer science and computer architecture. The program requires 48 hours in computer science, 20 hours in mathematics, 12 hours in laboratory science, 3 hours in free electives, and 3 hours in electrical engineering as well as the general university requirements, for a bachelor's degree. Students are required to take the ETS computer science field exam during the semester in which they are graduating.

The student who completes this four-year academic program is awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and is well prepared to pursue a professional career as a Computer Scientist, or to pursue graduate work in computer science or in an area of specialization.

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