Bachelor of Science Curriculum Academic years 2019-20 through 2021-22

The program below is effective for students whose curriculum year (when they began the program) is 2019, 2020, 2021. Students who enroll in Fall 2022 or later should use this curriculum page.

This curriculum includes required systems sequence CSCI 2461 (second year Fall) - CSCI 3410 (second year Spring). CSCI 2461 will not be taught after Fall 2022, and  CSCI 3410 will not be taught after Spring 2023. 

Students who do not pass CSCI 2461 by Fall 2022 and wish to continue in the BS program should take the sequence CSCI 2410 (Fall) and CSCI 3401 (Spring) in the following academic year. Note that CSCI 3411 (Fall) has a prerequisite of CSCI 2461 (Fall) or CSCI 2410 (Fall) and will be delayed by an academic year by those who do not pass CSCI 2461. Students who pass CSCI 2461 but do not pass CSCI 3410 by Spring 2023 should take CSCI 2410 in Fall.

As part of a residency requirement, all computer science majors must take a minimum of 30 credits in computer science at GW. The 30 credits include courses that students who participate in a study abroad program take during their approved study abroad.

Recommended program of study

*Course satisfies the University General Education Requirement in writing. UW 1020 must be completed prior to enrolling in any writing course in the major, including CSCI 2441W and CSCI 2541W.

¹Humanities, social science, and non-technical elective requirements: All BS in computer science students must take one humanities course and two social science courses from the Columbian College G-PAC Requirement list and three additional humanities, social science, and/or non-technical courses from the SEAS Humanities, Social Science, and Non-Technical Elective Requirement list. All courses selected to satisfy this requirement must be at least 3 credits and approved by the faculty advisor.

²Mathematics requirement: Can be met by taking MATH 1220 and MATH 1221 and MATH 1232 or by taking MATH 1231and MATH 1232. All students must take two MATH courses not counting MATH 1220; students who take MATH 1220 must take it as one of their selected electives.

³Science requirement: Can be met by choosing from BISC 1111 and BISC 1112; CHEM 1111 and CHEM 1112; and PHYS 1021 and PHYS 1022. The three science requirement courses must include a two-course sequence.

⁴Statistics or linear algebra requirement: Students must take both a statistics class, and a linear algebra class. The Statistics requirement can be met by choosing from APSC 3115, CSCI 3362 or CSCI 6362, CSCI 4341, or STAT 4157. The Linear algebra requirement can be met by taking one of MATH 2184, CSCI 4342, or EMSE 2705. Students who were admitted prior to fall 2014 may count STAT 1051 and STAT 1053 toward the statistics requirement, if they took the course prior to the spring 2015 semester. Students pursuing a pre-medical concentration may substitute the linear algebra requirement with a science course required by the pre-medical requirements.

⁵Students in the Bachelor of Science program must work with their advisors to select both a technical and non-technical track. Detailed information on the curriculum, elective courses, and the technical and non-technical tracks is listed in the Bulletin which is the definitive statement of degree requirements and is updated to reflect and archive the requirements for each entering class. However, this curriculum and the subsequent links offer examples of courses and course schedules that students have used in the past and are appropriate for understanding the overall structure of our program:

• Bachelor of Science technical tracks
• Bachelor of Science non-technical tracks
• Electives (scroll all the way down for selected electives)