CS Minor Requirements

Students in other majors are welcome to earn a minor in Computer Science. If you are interested in pursuing a Computer Science Minor, please visit the office of the Department of Computing Sciences in Mendel 161 and complete an application form.

The following courses are required for a Computer Science minor:

Plus two electives from the following list:

• BIO 3955 Bioinformatics
• BIO 3955 Information of Cell Signaling
• CSC 1600 Operating Systems [may not be used by student entering University Fall 2019 or later]
  
• CSC 1800 Organization of Programming Languages
• CSC 2053 Platform Based Computing
• CSC 2405 Computer Systems II
• CSC 3010 Overview of Cybersecurity
• CSC 3080 Information Security and Protection
• CSC 3150 Game Development
• CSC 3300 Linear Algebra for Computing
• CSC 3400 Information Retrieval
• CSC 4140 Theory of Information
• CSC 4170 Theory of Computation
• CSC 4181 Compiler Construction
• CSC 4280 Parallel Algorithms and Architecture
• CSC 4300 Computer Graphics
• CSC 4380 Information Visualization
• CSC 4450 Digital Forensics
• CSC 4490 Data Warehousing and Mining
  
• CSC 4500 Artificial Intelligence
• CSC 4510 Machine Learning
• CSC 4598 Machine Translation
• CSC 4600 Distributed Processing Systems
• CSC 4630 Software Development and Systems
• CSC 4700 Software Engineering
• CSC 4730 Human Computer Interaction
• CSC 4800 Web Application Development
• CSC 4810 Mobile App Development
• CSC 4900 Computer Networks
  
• CSC 5900 Seminar in Computing
• CSC 5920 Logic
• CSC 5930 Topics in Computer Science
• CSC 5993 Independent Study
• PHI 2180 Computer Ethics

Apply for a Computer Science Minor

Download and complete the APPLICATION TO ADD OR REMOVE A CLAS MINOR OR CONCENTRATION from MyNova https://mynova.villanova.edu//collection/all/ousforms.  Email forms to anne.hischar@villanova.edu