Artificial Intelligence and Communication Studies, BS (Boston)

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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.

• CS 1800 — Discrete Structures
• 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
• CS 3200 — Introduction to Databases
• DS 3500 — Advanced Programming with Data

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
• One of:
  • DS 4420 — Advanced Machine Learning
  • DS 4440 — Modern Neural Networks

Khoury Approved Elective

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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
  • All of:
    • EECE 2322 — Fundamentals of Digital Design and Computer Organization
    • EECE 2323 — Lab for EECE 2322
  • MKTG 4606 — Digital, Analytics, Technology, and Automation Research Practicum

Common Requirements

• COMM 1101 — Introduction to Communication Studies
• One of:
  • COMM 1112 — Public Speaking
  • COMM 2301 — Communication Research Methods

Foundation Course

From the catalog

Complete 4 semester hours from the following:

• Choose 4 semester hours from:
  • COMM 1210 — Persuasion and Rhetoric
  • COMM 1225 — Communication Theory
  • COMM 1231 — Principles of Organizational Communication
  • COMM 1255 — Communication in a Digital Age

Cluster Course

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Complete 4 semester hours from the following:

• Choose 4 semester hours from:
  • COMM 1131 — Sex, Relationships, and Communication
  • COMM 2303 — Global and Intercultural Communication
  • COMM 2304 — Communication and Gender
  • COMM 2501 — Communication Law
  • COMM 2551 — Free Speech in Cyberspace

Writing-Intensive Courses

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Complete 8 semester hours from the following:

• Choose 8 semester hours from:
  • COMM 3200 — Mobile Communication
  • COMM 3201 — Health Communication
  • COMM 3230 — Interpersonal Communication
  • COMM 3304 — Communication and Inclusion
  • COMM 3320 — Political Communication
  • COMM 3415 — Communication Criticism
  • COMM 3500 — Environmental Issues, Communication, and the Media
  • COMM 3501 — Free Speech: Law and Practice
  • COMM 3530 — Communication and Sexualities
  • COMM 3532 — Theories of Conflict and Negotiation
  • COMM 4535 — Nonverbal Social Interaction
  • COMM 4605 — Youth and Communication Technology
  • COMM 4631 — Crisis Communication and Image Management

Communication Studies Electives

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Complete 12 semester hours from the following:

COMM courses between COMM 1100-4999, which have not been used to satisfy other degree requirements

MSCR courses in the ranges MSCR 2100-2199, MSCR 3100-3199, and MSCR 4100-4199

• Choose 12 semester hours from:
  • JRNL 2301 — Visual Storytelling in Journalism
  • MSCR 1320 — Media and Social Change
  • PREL 1425 — Public Relations Principles
  • PREL 3625 — Public Relations Practice

Integrative Requirement Courses

From the catalog

Complete 8 semester hours from the following:

• One of:
  • COMM 2625 — Communication, Technology, and Society
  • COMM 2941 — Topics in Communication and Technology
• CS 4120 — Natural Language Processing

Capstone Experience Course

From the catalog

Complete 4 semester hours from the following:

• One of:
  • COMM 4608 — Strategic Communication Capstone
  • COMM 4625 — Online Communities
  • COMM 4901 — Seminar in Communications

Introduction to College

• One of:
  • COMM 1000 — Communication Studies at Northeastern
  • CS 1200 — First Year Seminar
  • INPR 1000 — First-Year Interdisciplinary Seminar

Experiential Learning

• One of:
  • CS 1210 — Professional Development for Khoury Co-op
  • EEAM 2000 — Professional Development for Co-op

Mathematics

• ECON 2350 — Statistics for Economists
• MATH 1341 — Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering

Computing and Social Issues

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Complete 4 semester hours from the following:

• Choose 4 semester hours from:
  • AFCS 2600 — Issues in Race, Science, and Technology
  • CY 4170 — The Law, Ethics, and Policy of Data and Digital Technologies
  • CY 5240 — Cyberlaw: Privacy, Ethics, and Digital Rights
  • One of:
    • DS 1300 — Knowledge in a Digital World
    • PHIL 1300 — Knowledge in a Digital World
  • HIST 2220 — History of Technology
  • INSH 2102 — Bostonography: The City through Data, Texts, Maps, and Networks
  • PHIL 1145 — Technology and Human Values
  • SOCL 1280 — The Twenty-First-Century Workplace
  • SOCL 2485 — Environment, Technology, and Society
  • SOCL 4528 — Technology and Society

Writing Requirements

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First-Year Writing

• One of:
  • ENGW 1111 — First-Year Writing
  • ENGW 1102 — First-Year Writing for Multilingual Writers
  • ENGW 1114 — First-Year Writing with Service-Learning

• From the catalog

  Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

• One of:
  • COMM 3409 — Advocacy Writing
  • ENGW 3302 — Advanced Writing in the Technical Professions
  • ENGW 3314 — Advanced Writing in the Arts, Media, and Design
  • ENGW 3315 — Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

Plus 16 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:

• DS 1300 ↔ PHIL 1300 (tier B)
• ENGW 1102 ↔ ENGW 1111 (tier C)
• ENGW 1102 ↔ ENGW 1114 (tier C)
• ENGW 1111 ↔ ENGW 1114 (tier C)

What the tiers mean

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