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All courses offered in winter terms are fully online with synchronous and asynchronous sections.

• CS 1064: Introduction to Programming in Python
• CS 1944: Computer Science First Year Seminar
• CS 3604: Professionalism in Computing

Depending upon the major or minor, students will take 1-4 courses of CS electives. These courses can be at the 3000, 4000, or 5000 course level. You can find more specific course requirements on your check sheet/roadmap for your major. There are a LOT of CS elective courses from which students can choose, and students can double count these electives to complete prerequisites towards other courses (like the capstone requirement) and/or a student in participating in one of CS' accelerated master's degree programs.

Courses taken for specific degree requirements cannot also be used as an elective (for example, CS 3654 may be an elective for students in the CS major, but is a degree requirement for students in the Data Centric Computing major).  CS Courses at the 3000 and 4000 level are offered consistently throughout the academic school year. Courses at the 5000 course level are offered much more sporadically.  Students will want to confirm their elective options with their CS advisor. Listed below are a broad list of Computer Science electives at the 3000 and 4000 course levels that are consistently offered.

Computer Science courses are taken by students across Virginia Tech to fulfill core degree requirements, as electives, and to complete minors. Not all courses, however, can be taken by all students and those would be considered major or minor restricted courses. Major and minor restricted courses are courses that can only be taken by students when they have officially declared the program to which the program is restricted. There is no waiving of the major or minor requirement to enroll.  Students will still have to meet all prerequisites in addition to being officially declared in the program to enroll in the course. 

The following courses are restricted to students in the Computer Science, Data Centric Computing and Secure Computing majors:

• CS 1944: First Year Seminar in Computer Science
• CS 2104: Introduction to Problem Solving in Computer Science
• CS 2164: 
• CS 2506: Introduction to Computer Organization II
• CS 3304: Comparative Languages
• CS 3314: Programming Languages Theory and Practice
• CS 3604: Professionalism in Computer Science
• CS 4944: Senior Seminar in Computer Science
• All courses with the Capstone designation

The following courses are restricted to students in the Computer Science, Data Centric Computing and Secure Computing majors and the minors in Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction:

• CS 2505: Introduction to Computer Organization I
• CS 3114: Data Structures anf Algorithms
• CS 3214: Computer Systems
• All 3000 level electives
• All 4000 level electives

The following courses cannot be taken by students in the Computer Science, Data Centric Computing and Secure Computing majors:

• CS 1014: Intro to Computational Thinking
• CS 1054: Introduction to Programming in Java
• CS 1064: Introduction to Programming in Python
• CS 2064: Intermediate Programming in Python
• CS 3634: Computer Science Foundations for Computational Modeling & Data Analytics

Operational course descriptions provide students with more information about what they will learn in the class, how the class is organized, what programming languages are emphasized (if any). As courses evolve, the operational course descriptions are subject to change.

This is a work in-progress and will continue to be updated regularly.