{"id":36136,"date":"2011-09-09T10:47:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/?page_id=36136"},"modified":"2024-04-19T20:57:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T00:57:54","slug":"minor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/cas\/programs\/computer-science\/minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor in Computer Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computers and computation play an important role in many areas of intellectual inquiry, as well as in society generally; a minor in Computer Science can enhance the value of a wide variety of majors.<\/p>\n<p>All student minors develop their programs in consultation with an advisor.<\/p>\n<h2>Requirements<\/h2>\n<p>A minor in Computer Science requires completion, with a grade of C or higher, of six 4-unit courses, <span>with at least four from within the Department of Computer Science, chosen as follows:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two courses\u2014CAS CS 111 and 112<\/li>\n<li>One course\u2014CAS CS 131 or 132 or 235 or 237<\/li>\n<li>Two courses\u2014from CAS CS 210 or any CAS CS course numbered 300 or higher<\/li>\n<li>One course\u2014any course within the Department of Computer Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Substitution of courses from outside the Department of Computer Science must be petitioned and is\u00a0decided on a case-by-case basis by the Director of Undergraduate Studies or the Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of Computer Science.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More detailed information is available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">departmental website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computers and computation play an important role in many areas of intellectual inquiry, as well as in society generally; a minor in Computer Science can enhance the value of a wide variety of majors. All student minors develop their programs in consultation with an advisor. Requirements A minor in Computer Science requires completion, with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2696,"featured_media":0,"parent":2484,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36136"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93904,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36136\/revisions\/93904"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}