{"id":588,"date":"2019-01-07T14:25:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T19:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/?page_id=588"},"modified":"2021-04-29T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:24:27","slug":"computer-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/becoming-a-csam-major\/computer-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Advising Guidelines for Computer Science Majors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Programs offered in the Computer Science Department: Computer Science, Information Technology, and Data Science are restricted majors requiring a High School GPA of 3.0 or higher for Computer Science and Data Science, and a 2.7 or higher for Information Technology.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>For Incoming Freshmen<\/h2>\n<h3>First Semester Major Courses<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>MATH 111 or MATH 122 (based on placement)<\/li>\n<li>CSIT 104<\/li>\n<li>CSIT 111<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>These courses must be passed with a minimum grade of C- within the student&#8217;s first year.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>For Currently Matriculated MSU Students Interested in Declaring Computer Science<\/h2>\n<p>Before submitting a declaration of major form to the department, students must have completed MATH 111 or MATH 122 or AMAT 120, CSIT 104, and CSIT 111, and with grades of C- or higher. Students will be able to take CSIT 104 (a required course and prerequisite for CSIT 112) and CSIT 111 concurrently and then take CSIT 112. A GPA of 3.0 is required.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to go from here:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/csam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/202\/2019\/03\/Computer_Science_14.pdf\">Computer Science Four Year Plan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/computer-science\/\">Computer Science Department<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/csam\/becoming-a-csam-major\/csam-math-sequences\/\">CSAM Math Sequences<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programs offered in the Computer Science Department: Computer Science, Information Technology, and Data Science are restricted majors requiring a High School GPA of 3.0 or higher for Computer Science and Data Science, and a 2.7 or higher for Information Technology. For Incoming Freshmen First Semester Major Courses MATH 111 or MATH 122 (based on placement) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":992,"parent":582,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-588","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209452,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/588\/revisions\/209452"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}