Computer Science and Environmental and Sustainability Sciences, BS (Boston)

Undergraduatemajor2027 catalogComputer Information ScienceBoston133 semester hours totalunverified parse — check the source

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Computer Science Overview

One of:
- CS 1200 — First Year Seminar
- INSC 1000 — Science at Northeastern
- INPR 1000 — First-Year Interdisciplinary Seminar
One of:
- CS 1210 — Professional Development for Khoury Co-op
- EESC 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 4-5 semester hours 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
One of:
- MATH 1365 — Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning
- MATH 1465 — Intensive Mathematical Reasoning

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
CS 3800 — Theory of Computation
One of:
- CS 4530 — Fundamentals of Software Engineering
- CS 4535 — Professional Practicum Capstone

Khoury Approved Electives

From the catalog
With advisor approval, a directed study, research, project study, or appropriate graduate-level course may also be taken as a computer science 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

Environmental and Sustainability Sciences Required Courses

All of:
- EEMB 2302 — Ecology
- EEMB 2303 — Lab for EEMB 2302
One of:
- All of:
  - ENVR 1200 — Dynamic Earth
  - ENVR 1201 — Lab for ENVR 1200
- ENVR 2200 — Earth's Changing Cycles
All of:
- ENVR 1400 — Foundations in Environmental and Sustainability Sciences
- ENVR 1401 — Lab for ENVR 1400
ENVR 2515 — Sustainable Development

Skills

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- All of:
  - ENVR 3300 — Geographic Information Systems
  - ENVR 3301 — Lab for ENVR 3300
- ENVR 5260 — Geographical Information Systems

Environmental and Sustainability Sciences Electives

From the catalog
Complete any four courses from these lists:

ENVR 4970 — Junior/Senior Honors Project 1

Earth Oceans and Environmental Change

One of:
- All of:
  - ENVR 2310 — Earth Materials
  - ENVR 2311 — Lab for ENVR 2310
- All of:
  - ENVR 2340 — Earth Landforms and Processes
  - ENVR 2341 — Lab for ENVR 2340
- One of:
  - ENVR 3125 — Global Oceanic Change
  - ENVR 3600 — Oceanography
- All of:
  - ENVR 4500 — Applied Hydrogeology
  - ENVR 4501 — Lab for ENVR 4500
- ENVR 5150 — Climate and Atmospheric Change
- ENVR 5190 — Soil Science
- ENVR 5600 — Coastal Processes, Adaptation, and Resilience
- ENVR 5670 — Global Biogeochemistry

Conservation, Restoration, and Management

One of:
- EEMB 2400 — Introduction to Evolution
- EEMB 3460 — Conservation Biology
- EEMB 3465 — Ecological and Conservation Genomics
- EEMB 4001 — Landscape and Restoration Ecology
- ENVR 4505 — Wetlands
- ENVR 5700 — Streams and Watershed Ecology
- ENVR 5750 — Urban Ecology

Sustainable Planning and Development

One of:
- ENVR 3150 — Food Security and Sustainability
- ENVR 3200 — Water Resources
- ENVR 5000 — Community Stakeholder Engagement in Environmental Management and Research
- ENVR 5210 — Environmental Planning
- ENVR 5350 — Sustainable Energy and Climate Solutions
- ENVR 5563 — Advanced Spatial Analysis
- ENVR 5800 — Climate Adaptation and Nature-Based Solutions

Environment and Society

One of:
- ENVR 5220 — Ecosystem-Based Management
- ENVR 5450 — Applied Social-Ecological Systems Modeling
- ENVR 5800 — Climate Adaptation and Nature-Based Solutions
- POLS 2395 — Environmental Politics and Policy
- PPUA 5260 — Ecological Economics
- PPUA 5268 — International Environmental Policy
- SOCL 2485 — Environment, Technology, and Society

Calculus

MATH 1341 — Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering
MATH 1342 — Calculus 2 for Science and Engineering
MATH 3081 — Probability and Statistics

Chemistry

All of:
- CHEM 1161 — General Chemistry for Science Majors
- CHEM 1162 — Lab for CHEM 1161
- CHEM 1163 — Recitation for CHEM 1161

Computing and Social Issues

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- AFCS 2600 — Issues in Race, Science, and Technology
- 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 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 of the following:

One of:
- ENGW 3302 — Advanced Writing in the Technical Professions
- ENGW 3303 — Advanced Writing in the Environmental Professions
- ENGW 3307 — Advanced Writing in the Sciences
- ENGW 3315 — Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

Integrative Requirement

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- CS 4991 — Research
- ENVR 4050 — Solving Emerging Environmental Challenges through Capstone
- ENVR 4971 — Junior/Senior Honors Project 2
- ENVR 4997 — Senior Thesis

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)
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 computer-science-and-environmental-and-sustainability-sciences-bs-boston, and the official page is the authority.