Computer Science and English, BS (Boston)

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Computer Science Overview

• One of:
  • CS 1200 — First Year Seminar
  • ENGL 1000 — English 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

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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

Computer Science Required Courses

• 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

Computing Focus

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Students are required to complete one of the following foci (two courses total):

Focus 1: Natural Language Processing

Students who choose this option must take DS 3000 as their Khoury Approved Elective

Focus 2: Programming Languages

Focus 3: Analytics

• One of:
  • Focus 1: Natural Language Processing — all of:
    • DS 4400 — Machine Learning
    • CS 4120 — Natural Language Processing
  • Focus 2: Programming Languages — all of:
    • CS 3800 — Theory of Computation
    • CS 4400 — Programming Languages
  • Focus 3: Analytics — all of:
    • DS 3000 — Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
    • DS 4200 — Information Presentation and Visualization

Khoury Approved Electives

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With advisor approval, a directed study, project study, or appropriate graduate-level course may also be taken as an upper-division elective.

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

Foundational Courses

• One of:
  • ENGL 1160 — Introduction to Rhetoric
  • ENGL 1410 — Introduction to Research on Writing
• ENGL 1400 — Introduction to Literary Studies
• One of:
  • ENGL 1700 — Global Literatures 1
  • ENGL 1701 — Global Literatures 2

Diversity

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Complete one of the following (you may reuse this course to fulfill an additional English requirement below):

• One of:
  • ENGL 2296 — Early African-American Literature
  • ENGL 2450 — Postcolonial Literature
  • ENGL 2455 — American Women Writers
  • ENGL 2470 — Asian-American Literature
  • ENGL 2760 — Writing in Global Contexts
  • ENGL 3678 — Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity

Literary Periods

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Pre-1850

Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • ENGL 1600 — Introduction to Shakespeare
  • ENGL 2296 — Early African-American Literature
  • ENGL 3101 — Early Literatures
  • ENGL 3120 — 17th- and 18th-Century Literatures
  • ENGL 3160 — Topics in 17th- and 18th-Century British Literatures
  • One of:
    • ENGL 3678 — Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
    • JWSS 3678 — Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity

• From the catalog

  Post-1850

  Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • ENGL 2301 — The Graphic Novel
  • ENGL 2450 — Postcolonial Literature
  • ENGL 2451 — Postcolonial Women Writers
  • ENGL 2455 — American Women Writers
  • ENGL 2470 — Asian-American Literature
  • ENGL 2600 — Irish Literary Culture
  • ENGL 3161 — 20th- and 21st-Century Literatures

Theories and Methods

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Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • ENGL 1160 — Introduction to Rhetoric
  • ENGL 1410 — Introduction to Research on Writing
  • ENGL 1450 — Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
  • ENGL 2520 — Science Fiction
  • ENGL 2620 — What Is Nature?
  • ENGL 3325 — Rhetoric of Law
  • ENGL 3381 — The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing
  • ENGL 3400 — Opening the Archive
  • ENGL 3487 — Film and Text
  • ENGL 3700 — Narrative Medicine
  • LING 1150 — Introduction to Linguistics
  • LING 2350 — Linguistic Analysis
  • LING 3450 — Syntax
  • LING 3452 — Semantics
  • LING 3454 — History of English
  • LING 3456 — Language and Gender

Major Seminar

• ENGL 3710 — Major Seminar

Writing

From the catalog

Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • ENGL 2700 — Creative Writing
  • ENGL 2710 — Style and Editing
  • ENGL 2760 — Writing in Global Contexts
  • ENGL 2770 — Writing to Heal
  • ENGL 3375 — Writing Boston
  • ENGL 3376 — Creative Nonfiction
  • ENGL 3377 — Poetry Workshop
  • ENGL 3378 — Fiction Workshop
  • ENGL 3380 — Writing Seminar

English Electives

8 semester hours.

From the catalog

Complete any two ENGL courses that have not already been used to fulfill another requirement.

Capstone

• ENGL 4710 — Capstone Seminar

Integrative Course Requirement

• One of:
  • ENGL 3340 — Technologies of Text
  • HIST 1357 — Data, Surveillance, and Society

Supporting Course

From the catalog

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 3309 — Advanced Writing in the Humanities
  • ENGW 3315 — Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

Plus 20 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)

What the tiers mean

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