[olug] advice on UNO computer science degree

[David DeWester]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Eric Pierce wrote:

> I think that's what I want to do, but I'm a little
> confused about how it all falls together.
> [snip]
> Do I just enroll for a master's degree and take
> whatever undergrad classes I need to get caught up
> (quite a bit I'd imagine)?

That's the way it worked for me.  I have my BS in math but I got into the
CS masters program at UNL without any problems.

They gave me a list of "deficiency" courses I had to take.  There were
only four of them.  (Although I had taken a lot of CS courses here and
there so I got some credit for those.)

Go read http://www.cs.uno.edu/Academic/MS/index.html

Note their FAQ just for non-CS degree people at:
http://www.cs.uno.edu/Academic/MS/noncs.html

You're looking at no more than 23 hours of make-up courses.  That's not
all that horrible.  Note that taking Software Development exempts you from
quite a few of those 23 hours.  If you take that class, you'll only have
to take 5 deficiency courses:

MATH 2721 Discrete Mathematics (3 credit hours) 
CSCI 2450 Assembly Languages (3 credit hours) 
CSCI 3301 Computer Organization (3 credit hours) 
CSCI 3401 System Programming (3 credit hours) 
CSCI 6001 Software Development (6 credit hours)

Keep in mind that in grad school you basically only take courses directly
related to your degree.  If you enroll in the BS program you'll, well,
have to take a lot more than 5 "BS" courses.  Pardon my French.

Dave Burchell was right.  Go for the masters degree.


David "I'll learn Unix someday, really, I promise" DeWester






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