Cornell Engineering : Minor in Computer Science

Minor in Computer Science

Offered by: Department of Computer Science
Administered by: Department of Computer Science, 303 Upson Hall
Contact Person: Dan Jenkins, 303 Upson Hall, 255-9220, jenkins@cs.cornell.edu Eligibility: Students in all Majors except Computer Science and Information Science, Systems, and Technology may participate in this minor.
Educational Objectives: This minor is for students who anticipate that computer science will have a prominent role to play in their academic and professional career.

Requirements
At least six (6) courses (minimum of 18 credits) chosen as follows:

I. Required Courses

COM S/ENGRD	211 Computers and Programming
COM S 321	Numerical Methods in Computational Molecular Biology
or COM S/ENGRD 322	Introduction to Scientific Computation
or COM S 421	Numerical Analysis
or COM S 428	Introduction to Computational Biophysics
COM S/ ECE 314	Computer Organization

II. Additional Courses
Three (3) COM S courses numbered 280 or higher (excluding seminars and CS 490)

Academic Standards
At least C in each course in the minor.

Note: Computing courses offered by other departments cannot be applied toward the Computer Science minor, with the exception of ECE 314. All qualifying courses must be taken at Cornell for a letter grade. No substitutions allowed.

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