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The following sample schedule can be used if you intend to use the Bioinformatics Track to satisfy the track requirements of the CIS Major to obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree. You may have placement scores or other experience that allow you to skip some of the freshman year courses.
Courses in italics represent any course that satisfies the same degree, group, multicultural or track elective requirement.
186 credits total
| Curricula | Credits |
| Freshman Year (48 credits) | |
| Fall Term (16 credits) | |
| CH 111 Introduction to Chemical Principles | 4 |
| WR 121 College Composition I | 4 |
| Arts & Letters Elective >1>IP | 4 |
| Social Science Elective >2 | 4 |
| Winter Term (16 credits) | |
| 211 General Biology I: Cells | 4 |
| MATH 111 College Algebra | 4 |
| CIS 110 Information Processing | 4 |
| WR 122 College Composition II | 4 |
| Spring Term (16 credits) | |
| General Biology III: Populations | 4 |
| MATH 112 Elementary Functions | 4 |
| CIS 122 Algorithms and Programming | 4 |
| Upper Division Social Science Elective >2 | 4 |
| Sophomore Year (48 credits) | |
| Fall Term (16 credits) | |
| 214 General Biology IV: Biochemistry and Genetics | 4 |
| CIS 210 Introduction to Computer Science I | 4 |
| MATH 231 Elements of Discrete Mathematics I | 4 |
| MATH 246 Calculus for the Biological Sciences I | 4 |
| Winter Term (16 credits) | |
| CIS 211 Introduction to Computer Science II | 4 |
| MATH 232 Elements of Discrete Mathematics II | 4 |
| MATH 247 Calculus for the Biological Sciences II | 4 |
| two-term Social Science Sequence >2>AC | 4 |
| Spring Term (16 credits) | |
| CIS 212 Introduction to Computer Science III | 4 |
| MATH 233 Elements of Discrete Mathematics III | 4 |
| MATH 253 Calculus III | 4 |
| two-term Social Science Sequence >2 | 4 |
| Junior Year (46 credits) | |
| Fall Term (16 credits) | |
| CIS 314 Computer Organization | 4 |
| WR 320 Scientific and Technical Writing | 4 |
| First Year Language | 4 |
| Arts & Letters Sequence >1 | 4 |
| Winter Term (14 credits) | |
| CIS 313 Introduction to Data Structures | 4 |
| CIS 323 Introduction to Data Structures Lab | 2 |
| First Year Language | 4 |
| Arts & Letters Sequence >1 | 4 |
| Spring Term (16 credits) | |
| CIS 315 Introduction to Algorithms | 4 |
| Track Elective | 4 |
| First Year Language | 4 |
| Arts & Letters Sequence>1 | 4 |
| Senior Year (44 credits) | |
| Fall Term (12 credits) | |
| CIS 451 Database Processing | 4 |
| CIS 425 Principles of Programming Languages | 4 |
| Second Year Language | 4 |
| Winter Term (16 credits) | |
| CIS 415 Operating Systems | 4 |
| Track Elective | 4 |
| Track Elective | 4 |
| Second Year Language | 4 |
| Spring Term (16 credits) | |
| CIS 422 Software Methodology I | 4 |
| CIS 410 Data Mining | 4 |
| CIS 410 Bioinformatics | 4 |
| Second Year Language | 4 |
Program Planning
While you need not keep to a sample schedule, you should keep the following constraints in mind in planning your program to ensure that you obtain your degree in four years.
- If you do not have programming experience, you must take CIS 122 during your freshman year.
- You must take CIS 210-212 and MATH 231-233 during your sophomore year.
- You must take CIS 313-314 during your junior year.
- CIS 323 is only two credits, because it requires the homework of a 4 credit course but has no exams.
- Many 400-level CIS courses require group work. You will unlikely be able to take any courses that require significant off-campus activity during your senior year.
- BI 211 has a prerequisite of CH 111 or high school chemistry; whereas, BI 251 has a prerequisite of CH 221-223 and CH 331.
- A Bachelor of Science degree does not require two years of a foreign language