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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Computer Science, General Track (BS) Sample Plan


Year One

Fall Spring
EN - 103 Composition and Rhetoric I   3 EN - 104 Composition and Rhetoric II   3
PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6) 3 PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking ​ or Expanded Literacies (1/6) 3
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience   3 Expanded Literacies (3/6) 3
CS - 115 Introduction to Python   4 CS - 211 Object-Oriented Programming   4
MA - 121 Calculus I  
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Mathematical Reasoning - 2/6) 
3 MA - 122 Calculus II   3
TOTAL CREDITS 16 TOTAL CREDITS 16

Year Two

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (4/6) 3 TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (4/6) 3
Expanded Literacies (5/6)  3 Expanded Literacies (6/6)  3
CS - 222 Data Structure   3 CS - 260 Databases & Data Visualization   3
CS - 230 Computer Architecture and Hardware Support   3 CS - 314 Operating Systems   3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1 UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1
TOTAL CREDITS 16 TOTAL CREDITS 16

Year Three

Fall Spring
Lens 1, 2, or 3 (1/3)  3 Lens 1, 2, or 3 (2/3)  3
CS - 321 Communication and Networking   3 CS - 356 Software Engineering   3
CS - 416 Security   3 MA - 231 Discrete Mathematics   3
MA - 331 Linear Algebra   3 Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Four

Fall Spring
Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3 Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3
CS - 360 Database Analysis & Design   3 CS - 453 Senior Coordinating Seminar   3
CS Elective* 3 Free Elective or MSIS course** 3
Free Elective or MSIS course** 3 Free Elective or MSIS course** 3
Free Elective or MSIS course** 3    
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 12

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 121

*Choose one MA and/or CS course at the 200, 300, or 400 level (except MA 260 and CS 475)

**5-year BS/MSISThe Computer Science Department offers a Bachelor’s to Masters (4+1) program that enables qualifying students to register for MSIS courses during their senior year. For more information, see the DeSales University Graduate Catalog and consult with the MSIS Program Director.

For more information about the requirements in our general education Connections Curriculum, which are included in the sample plan above, please see I. General Education (Connections Curriculum), which can be found in The Undergraduate Program .