Computer Science and Journalism, BS (Boston)

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Computer Science Overview

From the catalog

Must be taken in alignment with your home college:

• One of:
  • CS 1200 — First Year Seminar
  • JRNL 1000 — Journalism at Northeastern
  • INPR 1000 — First-Year Interdisciplinary Seminar
• One of:
  • CS 1210 — Professional Development for Khoury Co-op
  • EEAM 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.

• 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 4220 — Information Retrieval
  • CS 2484 — Principles of Human-Computer Interaction
• 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 12 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 12 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

Journalism Major Requirements

• One of:
  • JRNL 2201 — Journalism 2: Intermediate Reporting
  • JRNL 2301 — Visual Storytelling in Journalism
  • JRNL 4650 — Ethics and Diversity in the News Media

Journalism Courses

From the catalog

A grade of C or higher is required.

• All of:
  • JRNL 1101 — Journalism 1: Fundamentals of Reporting and Writing
  • JRNL 1102 — Journalist’s Toolbox
• JRNL 2201 — Journalism 2: Intermediate Reporting
• JRNL 2301 — Visual Storytelling in Journalism
• JRNL 3610 — Digital Storytelling and Social Media

Required Journalism

• JRNL 1150 — Understanding Today’s News
• JRNL 2350 — The History of Journalism: How the News Became the News
• JRNL 3550 — The First Amendment and the Media
• JRNL 4650 — Ethics and Diversity in the News Media

Journalism Electives

8 semester hours.

From the catalog

Complete two JRNL courses.

Journalism-Related Requirement

• HIST 1130 — Introduction to the History of the United States

Mathematics Requirement

• MATH 1341 — Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering

Computing and Social Issues

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

• ENGW 1111 — First-Year Writing

Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

From the catalog

This course already fulfills a Journalism requirement above.

• One of:
  • JRNL 2301 — Visual Storytelling in Journalism

GPA requirements

• Minimum 2.000 GPA required in all JRNL courses

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:

• DS 1300 ↔ PHIL 1300 (tier B)

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-journalism-bs-boston, and the official page is the authority.