Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering 178 courses 48 total credits
Majors must take one course from each area. Minors must take one course from each of any three areas. Majors must take six technical electives. Any 300- or 400-level COMP_SCI course may be taken as a technical elective. In addition, the following courses may also be taken as technical electives: Courses that fulfill the breadth and project courses also fulfill the technical elective requirement. However, a given course may only be applied to a single requirement for the major. In such cases where a single course could be applied to multiple requirements, a student must choose which requirement to apply a given course to. A course may not be counted toward multiple requirements at once.
| Plus an additional 3 units from the list of basic science courses | credits |
| 3 engineering foundations courses | credits |
| 3 design, communications, and innovation courses | credits |
| 7 social sciences/humanities courses | credits |
| 5 unrestricted electives | credits |
| 5 breadth courses | credits |
| 2 project courses | credits |
| 1 societal impact course | credits |
| 6 technical electives | credits |
Core Courses: 4 mathematics courses
Core Courses: 4 units of basic science
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| PHYSICS 135-1 | General Physics | 1 |
Major Program: 4 required courses
Major Program: 4 advanced elective courses
Theory
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| COMP_SCI 335-0 | Introduction to the Theory of Computation | 1 |
| COMP_SCI 336-0 | Design & Analysis of Algorithms | 1 |
Systems
COMP_SCI 368-0 may also be replaced by COMP_ENG 368-0, COMP_ENG 468-0.
Artificial Intelligence
Interfaces
Software Development and Programming Languages
Project course list
Societal Impact course list
Majors must take one course from this list.
Technical electives list
Artificial Intelligence
Systems
Foundations
Security and Privacy
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
Robotics
Computer Hardware and Architecture
Human-Computer Interaction
COMP_SCI 341-0 may also be replaced by IEMS 341-0.
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