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2024-2025 Catalog

Computer Science: Concentration in Information Systems


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The concentration in Information Systems includes both theory and application of software development. This concentration prepares students for careers in commercial programming, database management, and mobile and web application development. Students selecting this concentration are encouraged to consider courses in a second discipline. By developing expertise in an additional area students will increase their options for future studies and employment after they graduate.

II. Required courses outside the major—11-15 hours:


III. Other departmental requirements:


Major competency is demonstrated by successful completion of CSCI 480 and 481.

Liberal Arts Core (LAC)


For additional information about the Liberal Arts Core and the specific courses that fulfill the requirements, visit the Office of the Registrar website, https://registrar.unca.edu/liberal-arts-core.

Liberal Arts Core Requirements

Courses that satisfy some of the following LAC requirements can be found throughout the curriculum and may be used to fulfill multiple requirements.
 

Requirement Credits
First-Year Seminar 3-4
Academic Writing and Critical Inquiry 4
Humanities 12
Laboratory Science 4
Scientific Perspectives 3-4
Quantitative Perspectives 4
Social Science 3-4
Second Language (proficiency through the 2nd semester) 0-8
Arts and Ideas 3-4
Senior Capstone 4
Diversity Intensive (DI and DI-R) 6-8

 

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