Artificial Intelligence and Economics, BS (Boston)

Undergraduatemajor2027 catalogComputer Information ScienceBoston128 semester hours totalunverified parse — check the source

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Computer Science Overview

• One of:
  • CS 1200 — First Year Seminar
  • ECON 1000 — Economics at Northeastern
  • INPR 1000 — First-Year Interdisciplinary Seminar
• One of:
  • CS 1210 — Professional Development for Khoury Co-op
  • EESH 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 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

Khoury Approved Electives

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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 ranges:

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

Required Economics Courses

• ECON 1115 — Principles of Macroeconomics
• ECON 1116 — Principles of Microeconomics
• ECON 2315 — Macroeconomic Theory
• ECON 2316 — Microeconomic Theory
• ECON 2350 — Statistics for Economists

Economics Electives

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Complete five ECON elective courses that are found in the following ranges, with no more than two in the ECON 1200 to ECON 1999 range (unless otherwise noted in specific combined majors, required core economics courses cannot be counted as electives by students completing Department of Economics programs):

ECON 1200-ECON 1999

ECON 2990-ECON 3559

ECON 3561-ECON 4689

ECON 4900-ECON 4996

ECON 5200-ECON 5999

• Choose 20 semester hours from:
  • Any ECON course numbered 1200–1999
  • Any ECON course numbered 2990–3559
  • Any ECON course numbered 3561–4689
  • Any ECON course numbered 4900–4996
  • Any ECON course numbered 5200–5999

Economics Capstone

• One of:
  • ECON 4692 — Senior Economics Seminar
  • ECON 4997 — Senior Economics Thesis

Integrative Course Requirement

• ECON 2560 — Applied Econometrics

Mathematics

• One of:
  • MATH 1231 — Calculus for Business and Economics
  • MATH 1241 — Calculus 1
  • MATH 1245 — Calculus with Applications
  • MATH 1340 — Intensive Calculus for Engineers
  • MATH 1341 — Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering

Computing and Social Issues

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Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • 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
  • DS 1300 — Knowledge in a Digital World
  • HIST 2220 — History of Technology
  • INSH 2102 — Bostonography: The City through Data, Texts, Maps, and Networks
  • JRNL 3700 — Data Storytelling
  • PHIL 1145 — Technology and Human Values
  • SOCL 1280 — The Twenty-First-Century Workplace
  • SOCL 2485 — Environment, Technology, and Society
  • SOCL 4528 — Technology and Society

College Writing

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

Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

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Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • ENGW 3302 — Advanced Writing in the Technical Professions
  • ENGW 3308 — Advanced Writing in the Social Sciences
  • ENGW 3315 — Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

GPA requirements

• Grades in the following four courses must average to a minimum of C (2.000):

Plus 24 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)
• MATH 1231 ↔ MATH 1241 (tier C)
• MATH 1241 ↔ MATH 1341 (tier C)
• MATH 1241 ↔ MATH 1245 (tier C)
• MATH 1241 ↔ MATH 1340 (tier C)

What the tiers mean

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