Computer Science and Economics, BS (Boston)

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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

Computer Science 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 2800 — Logic and Computation

Computer Science Required Courses

• One of:
  • CS 2484 — Principles of Human-Computer Interaction
  • CS 4220 — Information Retrieval
• All of:
  • CS 2700 — Data Structures and Analysis
  • CS 2701 — Lab for CS 2700
• All of:
  • CS 3100 — Program Design and Implementation 2
  • CS 3101 — Lab for CS 3100
• CS 3200 — Introduction to Databases
• One of:
  • CS 4530 — Fundamentals of Software Engineering
  • CS 4535 — Professional Practicum Capstone

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 8 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 8 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
• ECON 2560 — Applied Econometrics

Economics Electives

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Complete four ECON elective courses from the following ranges with no more than two at the ECON 1200-1999 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 to ECON 1999

ECON 2990 to ECON 3559

ECON 3561 to ECON 4689

ECON 4900 to ECON 4996

ECON 5200 to ECON 5999

• Choose 16 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

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The following course is used in other areas of the major:

• One of:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

From the catalog

Complete one course from the following:

• Choose 4 semester hours from:
  • 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 required Economics 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:

• DS 1300 ↔ PHIL 1300 (tier B)
• ENGW 1102 ↔ ENGW 1111 (tier C)
• MATH 1231 ↔ MATH 1241 (tier C)
• MATH 1241 ↔ MATH 1251 (tier C)
• MATH 1241 ↔ MATH 1341 (tier C)
• MATH 1241 ↔ MATH 1245 (tier C)
• MATH 1241 ↔ MATH 1340 (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 computer-science-and-economics-bs-boston, and the official page is the authority.