Artificial Intelligence and Biology, BS (Boston)

Undergraduatemajor2027 catalogComputer Information ScienceBoston138 semester hours totalunverified parse — check the source

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Computer Science Overview

From the catalog
Must be taken in alignment with your home college:

One of:
- CS 1200 — First Year Seminar
- BIOL 1000 — Biology at Northeastern
- INPR 1000 — First-Year Interdisciplinary Seminar
- INSC 1000 — Science at Northeastern
One of:
- CS 1210 — Professional Development for Khoury Co-op
- EESC 2000 — Professional Development for Co-op

Fundamental Courses

From the catalog
All students can take a self-assessment to attempt to place out of CS 2000 and CS 2001. Students who place out of CS 2000 and CS 2001 will instead substitute with 4-5 semester hours of CS, CY, or DS coursework at the 3000 level or higher not otherwise required in the degree.

All of:
- CS 2000 — Introduction to Program Design and Implementation
- CS 2001 — Lab for CS 2000
All of:
- CS 2100 — Program Design and Implementation 1
- CS 2101 — Lab for CS 2100
DS 3500 — Advanced Programming with Data
CS 3200 — Introduction to Databases
One of:
- MATH 1365 — Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning
- MATH 1465 — Intensive Mathematical Reasoning

Artificial Intelligence Foundations

DS 3000 — Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
DS 4200 — Information Presentation and Visualization
DS 4300 — Large-Scale Information Storage and Retrieval
DS 4400 — Machine Learning

Khoury Approved Electives

From the catalog
With advisor approval, directed study, research, project study, and appropriate graduate-level courses may also be taken as upper-division electives.
Complete 4 semester hours from within the following options:
CS 2300 or higher, except CS 5010
CY 2000 or higher, except CY 4930
DS 2500 or higher, except DS 4900

Choose 4 semester hours from:
- Any CS course numbered 2300–9999 (except CS 5010)
- Any CY course numbered 2000–9999 (except CY 4930)
- Any DS course numbered 2500–9999 (except DS 4900)
- EECE 2160 — Embedded Design: Enabling Robotics
- EECE 2322 — Fundamentals of Digital Design and Computer Organization
- MKTG 4606 — Digital, Analytics, Technology, and Automation Research Practicum

Statistics Foundations

All of:
- ENVR 2500 — Biostatistics
- ENVR 2501 — Lab for ENVR 2500

College Writing

One of:
- ENGW 1111 — First-Year Writing
- ENGW 1102 — First-Year Writing for Multilingual Writers

Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

One of:
- ENGW 3302 — Advanced Writing in the Technical Professions
- ENGW 3315 — Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines
- ENGW 3307 — Advanced Writing in the Sciences

Biology Core Courses

All of:
- BIOL 1107 — Foundations of Biology
- BIOL 1108 — Lab for BIOL 1107
BIOL 2299 — Inquiries in Biological Sciences
All of:
- BIOL 2301 — Genetics and Molecular Biology
- BIOL 2302 — Lab for BIOL 2301
One of:
- BIOL 2309 — Biology Project Lab
- BIOL 2407 — Computational Project Lab
All of:
- BIOL 3611 — Biochemistry
- BIOL 3612 — Lab for BIOL 3611

Intermediate and Advanced Biology Elective

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:
BIOL 2327 to BIOL 3999
BIOL 4705 to BIOL 5999
EEMB 2290 to EEMB 5515
EEMB 5520 to EEMB5534
EEMB 5548 to EEMB 5569
Research

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Research
One of:
- Any BIOL course numbered 2327–3999
- Any BIOL course numbered 4705–5999
- Any EEMB course numbered 2290–5515
- Any EEMB course numbered 5548–5569
- BIOL 4991 — Research
- BIOL 4970 — Junior/Senior Honors Project 1
- BIOL 4971 — Junior/Senior Honors Project 2
- BIOL 4994 — Internship

Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Elective

From the catalog
Complete one course and its corresponding lab, if indicated:

Choose 4 semester hours from:
- BIOL 2327 — Human Parasitology
- BIOL 3401 — Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
- BIOL 3413 — Current Topics in Organismal and Population Biology
- BIOL 3427 — Microbial Evolution
- BIOL 3451 — Avian Biology
- BIOL 5585 — Evolution
- All of:
  - EEMB 2302 — Ecology
  - EEMB 2303 — Lab for EEMB 2302
- EEMB 2400 — Introduction to Evolution
- All of:
  - EEMB 2700 — Marine Biology
  - EEMB 2701 — Lab for EEMB 2700
- EEMB 3460 — Conservation Biology
- EEMB 3466 — Disease Ecology
- EEMB 3600 — Animal Behavior

Supporting Courses for Biology

From the catalog
Chemistry
A grade of D or better is required in CHEM 1161 and CHEM 1162.

All of:
- CHEM 1161 — General Chemistry for Science Majors
- CHEM 1162 — Lab for CHEM 1161
All of:
- CHEM 2311 — Organic Chemistry 1
- CHEM 2312 — Lab for CHEM 2311
All of:
- CHEM 2313 — Organic Chemistry 2
- CHEM 2314 — Lab for CHEM 2313
From the catalog
Physics
One of:
- All of:
  - PHYS 1145 — Physics for Life Sciences 1
  - PHYS 1146 — Lab for PHYS 1145
- PHYS 1151 — Physics for Engineering 1
- PHYS 1161 — Physics 1

Math

MATH 1341 — Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering

Integrative Course

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- BINF 6310 — Introduction to Bioinformatics
- BIOL 4707 — Cell and Molecular Biology
- BIOL 5581 — Biological Imaging
- BIOL 5591 — Advanced Genomics

Capstone

From the catalog
Choose one:

Choose 4 semester hours from:
- BIOL 4701 — Biology Capstone
- BIOL 4900 — Biology Research Capstone
- BIOL 4971 — Junior/Senior Honors Project 2

Plus 20 semester hours of general electives.

Substitutions

Possible equivalents for this program — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:

ENGW 1102 ↔ ENGW 1111 (tier C)
ENGW 3302 ↔ ENGW 3307 (tier C)
ENGW 3307 ↔ ENGW 3315 (tier C)

What the tiers mean

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under artificial-intelligence-and-biology-bs-boston, and the official page is the authority.