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The General Catalog 2004-2005 Changes |
The catalogs 1993-1994 through 2003-2004 are very similar and only
minor changes were made between the catalogs. The following are the
significant changes that have been incorporated into the 2004-2005 catalog.
(New courses are bold font with credit hours in parentheses.)
- CSC 1100(3) Computers in Society will not be a required course of
Computer Science students but will continue to be taught as a service
course.
- CSC 1350(3) and CSC 1351(3) will replace the three-course
sequence, CSC1250, CSC 1251, CSC 2290. This new sequence will be for
majors only in Computer Science.
- CSC 1200(1) Ethics in Computing will be required.
- CSC 2252(3) Assembly Language Programming and CSC 2280(3) Computer
Organization will be combined into the course CSC 3501(3).
- Computer Science majors will be required to take CSC 2262 Numerical
Methods and not the course CSC 2533 Introduction to Engineering Computation.
- Object oriented programming will be incorporated into the required
core courses. Students will be given a choice of CSC 3370 (Java) or
CSC 3390 (C++) and must take CSC3380(Object Oriented Design Patterns)
- A new course CSC2390 (3) C Progamming will be taught in the
Fall semester for students who have had two semester courses covering
implementation of stacks, queues and trees in another language besides
C. This course is intended to bridge students who have had the content
of CSC1350 and CSC1351 in another language but need to learn C syntax
before progressing to CSC 3102.
- The total semester hours will be reduced to 127 instead of 133 hours.
Click here to see the New Curriculum Transition Sheet
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Major in Computer Science |
The Department of Computer Science is in the College of Basic Sciences
and a student must meet the admission requirements before entering this
college. Do familiarize yourself with the degree requirements of the
college found in your
General Catalog as well as the Department
of Computer Science requirements.
Click here for valuable information
about the curriculum including guidelines for choosing
your Restricted Area.
For help in scheduling your courses the following aids are available:
1993-1994 through 2003-2004 General Catalogs:
•
Collegeof Basic Sciences / Computer Science worksheet
• Semester
by Semester Flowchart
2004-2005 General Catalog:
• College of Basic Sciences / Computer Science worksheet
•
Semester by Semester Flowchart
You are encouraged to meet with your advisor
when scheduling courses.
Note: The Following Important Degree Requirements for Catalogs
1993-2004:
• A communication studies (speech) course is required and
must be from the General Education Humanities list.
• Two science sequences are required. Both sequences must
be courses taught within departments in the College of Basic Sciences.
One sequence must be a biology sequence. Two hours credit in lab work
is required and the lab(s) must be associated with one of the two sequences.
• The six hours chosen from English at the 2000+ level or
HNRS at the 2000+ level must be chosen from the General Education Humanities
list.
• The computer science curriculum requires 15
hours of restricted electives in another area of study.
• Approved electives are any course you would like to take
- with a few exceptions. Sometimes these courses are called "free electives"
or referred to as "courses taken for elective credit". See a partial
list of the courses excluded from degree credit on your worksheet.
In addition see your
General Catalog in the introduction section to the College of
Basic Sciences as well as the section for the Department of Computer
Science.
• A two-course sequence in a foreign language is required.
A single foreign language must be chosen. International students may
satisfy the foreign language in other ways. Do see your
General Catalog in the introduction section of the College of
Basic Sciences for further explanation of the foreign language requirement.
Of course there are other degree requirements. The requirements listed
above frequently need clarification.
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Enrollment in Two Degree Programs |
You must follow the requirements as specified in your General
Catalog for dual enrollment.
Often the content of courses in the two departments will overlap such
as the departments of computer science and electrical engineering.
For the catalog years 1993-2003 a student enrolled as a major in Computer
Science and in another department is allowed at most 2 substitutions
from a department outside the Department of Computer Science. For the
catalog year 2004-2005 only 1 substitution will be allowed.
You must get written permission from an advisor
in the Department of Computer Science and then the College
of Basic Sciences must approve the substitution(s). The advisor must
determine if the computer science course content has been covered in
the other department's course sufficiently.
Also if a student has taken a course in another department similar
to a required computer science course, then another computer science
course may be taken in its place with written permission obtained from
an advisor .
You are cautioned to read the catalog course descriptions because frequently
credit will not be given for two similar courses.
You are encouraged to choose courses that do not duplicate content.
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Undergraduate Minor in Computer Science |
Students desiring a Minor in Computer Science must take the total hours
required all from the Department of Computer Science. No substitutions
outside of the department will be allowed. For the catalog years 1993-2003,
the total hours are 21-22 hours and under the 2004-2005 catalog, the
required hours are 21.
There are significant changes to the minor course requirements in the
General Catalog
2004-2005.
You are cautioned to read the catalog course descriptions because frequently
credit will not be given for 2 similar courses. You are encouraged to
choose courses that do not duplicate content with courses taken in another
department. If you have received credit outside of the computer science
department for a course similar to a course that is required for the
minor, then seek written permission from an advisor
to substitute another computer science course.
See your General Catalog in the introduction section for the College
of Basic Sciences , "Minor Field Requirements (OPTIONAL)" for additional
requirements for obtaining a minor in computer science.
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Restricted Electives |
The computer science curriculum requires 15 hours of restricted electives
in another area of study excluding computer science. The Department
of Computer Science does not require an official university departmental
minor but does encourage students to pursue that goal.
The courses should form a sequence, be from the same department (there
may be exceptions), and be challenging such as a major would take. At
least two 3000 level courses are suggested and the more high level courses
the better. You must see an advisor
to obtain written approval of your plan of study for the Restricted
Area.
Click
here to obtain a copy of the Restricted Area Plan of Study Form.
If Information Systems and Decision Sciences is chosen as the restricted
area note the following:
• ISDS requires ISDS 1100 as a prerequisite to some courses
and our CSC 1100 cannot be substituted at this time for this course.
• Courses on the Restricted Area Plan of Study must be
from ISDS 3100 and above.
• ISDS will allow IE 3302 to substitute as the statistics
prerequisite instead of the courses ISDS 2000 and ISDS 2001.
Note that the computer science department will not accept these two
courses as a substitute for IE 3302.
Do make sure that you avoid courses for which computer science students
will not receive credit.
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Computer Science Advisors |
You should have received a letter indicating who your advisor
is within the department. This faculty member will be able to help you
plan your schedule of courses for the semester.
See Coretta Douglas (douglas@bit.csc.lsu.edu) Room 295 Coates Hall
You will need departmental approval (signature) for your Restricted
Area Plan of Study.
You will need a letter from the computer science department for a substitution.
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