Minor in Applied Computational Science
Students interested in pursuing this minor should contact Professor Peter Love.
Program Requirements and Policies
- The Minor in Applied Computational Science requires five courses and a capstone experience.
- To satisfy the minor the classes must be completed with a grade of C or above.
Course Requirements
- Preparation courses (2 Classes) - Students must take classes from the lists below, or classes in the same discipline that have the listed classes as prerequisites. Pre-matriculation credits may not be used to satisfy these requirements
- Physical and Natural Science students: Comp 11 AND Comp 15
- Computer Science Students: Two classes from:
- Astronomy 31: Stellar Structure & Evolution, Astronomy 32: Galactic and Extragalactic Astrophysics
- Bio 13: Cells And Organisms W/lab, Bio 14: Organisms And Population W/ Lab
- Chem 1: Chemical Fundamentals W/ Lab, Chem 2: General Chemistry II with Lab, Chem 11: General Chemistry, Chem 12: General Chemistry.
- EOS 1: Introduction To The Dynamic Earth W/lab, EOS 2: Environmental Geology W/lab, EOS 5: Introduction to Oceanography, EOS 51: Global Climate Change
- Physics 11: General Physics I W/lab, Physics 12: General Physics II W/lab
- Mathematics Students and all other majors: COMP 15 is required from category A) and at least one course is required from category B).
- Probability and Statistics: One class from the list below.
- Bio 132: Biostatistics
- Bio 133: Ecological Models and Data
- Math 161: Probability
- Math 162: Statistics
- Physics 016: Special Topics: Probability and statistics for Physicists
- Options: Two classes from the list below:
- Astronomy 121: Galactic astronomy
- Astronomy 122: Extragalactic astronomy
- Astronomy 016: Special Topics: Astrophysics Laboratory (Required Project)
- Bio 121 (Cross listed with Math 121): Mathematical Neuroscience
- Comp 126 (Cross listed with Math 126): Numerical Analysis
- Comp 128 (Cross listed with Math 128): Numerical Linear Algebra
- Comp 136: Statistical Pattern Recognition
- EOS 104: Geological Applications of GIS
- Math 87: Mathematical Modeling (Required project)
- Math 121 (Cross listed with Bio 121): Mathematical Neuroscience
- Math 123: Mathematical Aspects of Data Analysis
- Math 126 (Cross listed with Comp 126): Numerical Analysis
- Math 128 (Cross listed with Comp 128): Numerical Linear Algebra
- Math 150: Optimization
- Physics 016 Special Topics: Computational Physics (Required Project)
- Capstone: The Capstone requirement can be satisfied by one of the following:
- Senior thesis: The thesis can satisfy the capstone project requirement, but the senior thesis class cannot count towards the five credits required for the minor.
- Class project in an approved list of courses from option 2, with a grade of C or above
- Research evaluated by a presentation.