Computer Science, GAME, B.S.

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General: 120 total hours, including 46 hours of upper-level courses (3000-4000 level), and 30 hours in residence

First-Year Colloquium (0-1 hour)

Required of full-time freshmen entering college for the first time and transfer students with less than 12 hours of credit. (See Academic Requirements, Regulations, & Policies for details)

CPSC 1105 - First Year Experience for CPSC/IFSC Majors

Standard UA Little Rock Core (21 hours)

Written Communication (6)
U.S. Traditions (3)
Fine Arts (3)
History of Civilization (3)
Humanities (3)

Students may take any of the courses approved by the Core Curriculum Council in the five above categories to satisfy the core requirements above.

Social Science (3)

Students should take either PSYC 2300 (Intro Psychology) or ECON 2301 (Survey of Economics) in this category.

EIT College Core (15 hours)

Mathematics (4)

Students should take MATH 1451 in this category

Science (8)

PHYS 2321 /PHYS 2121 (Physics for Sci/Eng I) and one of {ERSC 1302 /ERSC 1102 , ERSC 1304 /ERSC 1104 , ERSC 2303 /ERSC 2103 , BIOL 1400 , BIOL 1401 , ASTR 1301 /ASTR 1101 , CHEM 1402 }.

Humanities/Soc. Sci./Oral Communication/Interdisciplinary (3)

Students may take any of the courses approved by the Core Curriculum Council in the above categories to satisfy the core requirements above.

Major (84 hours)

Additional Math courses (13 hours):

MATH 1451 - Calculus I (counted under EIT core. See “EIT College Core” section above.)
MATH 1452 - Calculus II
MATH 2310 - Discrete Mathematics
MATH 3312 - Linear Algebra
STAT 3352 - Applied Statistics I

Additional Science Course (4 hours):

Additional Math/Science Elective (3 hours)

A minimum of 3 additional hours of mathematics or science courses for majors must be taken in addition to the requirements listed above.

Major Requirements (64 hours):

* Students must receive a grade of C or greater in this class.

Suggested Curriculum

First Semester, Fall (14-15 hours)

RHET 1311 - Composition I
MATH 1451 - Calculus I
CPSC 1375 - Programming I
CPSC 1175 - Introduction to Computer Science Laboratory
CPSC 1105 - First Year Experience for CPSC/IFSC Majors (0-1 hour)
or
IFSC 1105 - First Year Experience for IFSC/CPSC Majors (0-1 hour)
ACOM 1300 - Introduction to Communication (or other suitable EIT College Core course in this category)

Second Semester, Spring (16 hours)

Third Semester, Fall (15 hours)

Fourth Semester, Spring (15 hours)

Fifth Semester, Fall (16 hours)

Sixth Semester, Spring (16 hours)

Seventh Semester, Fall (15 hours)

CPSC 4373 - Fundamentals of Software Engineering
Fine Arts core requirement (3 hours)
ARST 3385 - Vector Graphics for Illustrators and Designers
IFSC 2200 - Ethics in the Profession
CPSC 3482 - Computer Organization I

Eighth Semester, Fall (15 hours)

CPSC 4392 - Capstone Project
Math/Science Elective (3 hours)
Core science with lab (4 hours) (see EIT College science core above)
Humanities core requirement (3 hours)