Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics, BS (Boston)

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Official catalog page for this program

Computer Science Overview

From the catalog
Complete the following in alignment with your home college:

One of:
- CS 1200 — First Year Seminar
- 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 4-5 semester hour 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
CS 3200 — Introduction to Databases
DS 3500 — Advanced Programming with Data
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
DS 4420 — Advanced 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 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

Linguistics Foundations

LING 1150 — Introduction to Linguistics
LING 2350 — Linguistic Analysis
LING 3412 — Language and Culture

Linguistic Structure

From the catalog
Complete four of the following:

Choose 16 semester hours from:
- LING 3420 — Phonetics
- LING 3422 — Phonology
- LING 3424 — Morphology
- LING 3450 — Syntax
- LING 3452 — Semantics

Laboratory/Directed Study

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- LING 4891 — Research Seminar in Linguistics
- LING 4991 — Directed Study Research
- PSYC 4610 — Laboratory in Psycholinguistics

Seminar Requirement

One of:
- LING 4654 — Seminar in Linguistics
- PSYC 4658 — Seminar in Psycholinguistics

Linguistics Electives

From the catalog
Complete two courses not used to fulfill other degree requirements from the following options:
LING 3000 to LING 4999

Choose 8 semester hours from:
- DEAF 2700 — ASL Linguistics
- Any LING course numbered 3000–4999

Mathematics Requirement

MATH 1341 — Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering
PSYC 1101 — Foundations of Psychology
PSYC 2320 — Statistics in Psychological Research

Integrative Course

CS 4120 — Natural Language Processing

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 3307 — Advanced Writing in the Sciences
- ENGW 3315 — Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

Plus 16 semester hours of general electives.

Substitutions

Stated by the catalog on this program's requirements:

Please visit the Linguistics Courses page within this catalog to review the list of courses in the LING 3000-LING 4999 range.

Possible equivalents for this program beyond the above — 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-linguistics-bs-boston, and the official page is the authority.