BU CS Announces Two New Joint Majors
We are excited to announce the addition of two new joint majors to our undergraduate curriculum! These majors, Computer Science & Statistics and Computer Science & Linguistics, allow students to explore multiple interest areas while following a structured, centralized curriculum. Keep reading to find out more about the benefits of each program.
Statistics and Computer Science
Mathematics, statistics, and computer science are the subjects making up the mathematical and computational sciences. The joint major in Statistics & Computer Science allows students to explore all of these related disciplines. It is appropriate for Mathematics majors in the Statistics track with an interest in applications in computer science and Computer Science majors wishing to have more breadth in mathematical foundations and statistics. Statistics & Computer Science majors should have advisors in both the Mathematics & Statistics Department and the Computer Science Department, with their principal advisor being in Computer Science.
Linguistics and Computer Science
The major in Linguistics & Computer Science allows students to explore human (natural) language from a variety of perspectives, through courses focusing on meaning and linguistic structure at a variety of levels (sounds, words, sentences), with a range of electives in other areas. Students also learn about the organization, design, and construction of hardware and software systems for computing and discover how such systems can be programmed to process and analyze large amounts of natural language data.
This prepares students for a variety of career opportunities in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, including improving or developing new software in areas such as grammar checkers, machine translation, and information retrieval. It also provides an excellent background for students who wish to pursue graduate studies in these areas.