Artificial Intelligence and Sociology, BS (Boston)

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Fundamental Courses

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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

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 the following:

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 Sociology Courses

• SOCL 1101 — Introduction to Sociology
• SOCL 3300 — Social Theory

Research Methods

• One of:
  • SOCL 2321 — Research Methods in Sociology
  • INSH 3101 — Research Methods in the Social Sciences

Capstone

• SOCL 4600 — Senior Seminar

Sociology Electives

20 semester hours.

From the catalog

Sociology Elective—Introductory

Complete two courses between SOCL 1000 and SOCL 2999 not used to satisfy another requirement.

Sociology Elective—Intermediate

Complete three courses between SOCL 3000 and SOCL 4999 not used to satisfy another requirement.

Overview Course

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Complete the following in alignment with your home college:

• One of:
  • CS 1200 — First Year Seminar
  • INPR 1000 — First-Year Interdisciplinary Seminar
  • SOCL 1000 — Sociology at Northeastern
• One of:
  • CS 1210 — Professional Development for Khoury Co-op
  • EESH 2000 — Professional Development for Co-op

Mathematics

• One of:
  • INSH 3102 — Introduction to Statistics in the Social Sciences
  • SOCL 2320 — Statistical Analysis in Sociology
• MATH 1341 — Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering

College Writing

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

Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

• 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

Integrative Course

From the catalog

Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • SOCL 2485 — Environment, Technology, and Society
  • SOCL 4528 — Technology and Society

Plus 28 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 1102 ↔ ENGW 1114 (tier C)
• ENGW 1111 ↔ ENGW 1114 (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-sociology-bs-boston, and the official page is the authority.