Computer and Information Sciences, Individualized Concentration/Analytics, Individualized Concentration Five-Year Program Sequence

Fall Semester

• ENGL 105 - College Composition (3 semester hours)

• or

• ENGL 106 - Academic Writing and Critical Thinking (3 semester hours)

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• EXPL 100 - Cornerstone (1 semester hour)
• GEND Group - Environmental and Life Sciences (3 semester hours)
• GEND 102 - The Creative Mind I (3 semester hours)
• MATH 120 - College Algebra (3 semester hours)

Spring Semester

• CISC 120 - Programming I (4 semester hours)
• COMM 110 - Speech (3 semester hours)
• GEND Group - Scientific Inquiry (3 semester hours)
• GEND 103 - The Creative Mind II (3 semester hours)
• MATH 220 - Calculus I (3 semester hours)

Summer Semester

Optional

Fall Semester

• ENGL 200 - Advanced Composition and Technical Writing (3 semester hours)
• CISC 160 - Data Structures (3 semester hours)
• CISC 211 - Computer Organization and Architecture (4 semester hours)
• MATH 210 - Discrete Mathematics I (3 semester hours)
• MATH 280 - Introductory Statistics (3 semester hours)

Spring Semester

• CISC 225 - Information Systems Analysis and Design (3 semester hours)
• CISC 233 - Essential Algorithms (3 semester hours)
• EXPL 200 - Steppingstone (1 semester hour)
• GEND Group - Leadership and Business (3 semester hours)
• MATH 250 - Introduction to Linear Algebra (3 semester hours)
• MATH 310 - Discrete Mathematics II (3 semester hours)

Summer Semester

Optional

Fall Semester

• CISC 298 - Project I (3 semester hours)
• CISC 301 - Operating Systems (3 semester hours)
• CISC 340 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (4 semester hours) (to meet CISC 300/400-level elective requirement)
• GEND Group - Leadership and Business (3 semester hours)
• GEND Elective (3 semester hours)

Spring Semester

• CISC 325 - Programming Languages Concepts and Paradigms (3 semester hours)
• CISC 365 - Internship (3 semester hours)
• CISC 399 - Formal Languages and Automata Theory (3 semester hours)
• EXPL 300 - Keystone (1 semester hour)
• GEND Group - Historical and Political Investigation (6 semester hours)

Summer Semester

Optional

Fall Semester

• CISC 300/400-level Elective (2 semester hours)
• CISC 435 - Machine Learning Fundamentals (3 semester hours) (to meet CISC 400-level elective requirement)
• CISC 498 - Project II (3 semester hours)
• ANLY 500 - Analytics I: Principles and Applications (3 semester hours)*
• ANLY 506 - Exploratory Data Analysis (3 semester hours)*

Spring Semester

• CISC 300/400-level Elective (3 semester hours)
• CISC 400-level Elective (3 semester hours)
• EXPL 400 - Capstone (1 semester hour)
• GEND Elective (3 semester hours)
• ANLY 510 - Analytics II: Principles and Applications (3 semester hours)*
• ANLY 512 - Data Visualization (3 semester hours)*

Summer Semester

Optional

Fall Semester

• ANLY 620 - Ethics for Data Analytics (3 semester hours)
• Graduate Concentration Elective (3 semester hours) (Recommended: ANLY 530 - Principles and Applications of Machine Learning)
• Graduate Concentration Elective (3 semester hours) (Recommended: ANLY 545 - Categorical Data Analysis)
• GRAD 695 - Research Methodology and Writing (3 semester hours)

Spring Semester

• Graduate Concentration Elective (3 semester hours) (Recommended: ANLY 520 - Natural Language Processing: Text Summarization and Classification)
• Graduate Concentration Elective (3 semester hours) (Recommended: ANLY 560 - Advanced Programming for Data Analytics)
• Graduate Concentration Elective (3 semester hours) (Recommended: ANLY 565 - Time Series and Forecasting)

• ANLY 699 - Applied Project in Analytics (3 semester hours)

       or

• GRAD 699 - Graduate Thesis (3 semester hours)