Technical Electives for the Computer Science Major

Technical electives are upper division courses that can be applied towards the completion of the necessary 27 units of upper division course work for computer science majors. These technical electives are taken in addition to the core and breadth requirements for computer science. All technical electives that are to be used towards the 27 units of upper division course work must be taken for a letter grade. If you feel that an upper division or graduate level course that is not on this list should be, submit a written request including an extended course description with the staff in the CS Advising office, 377 Soda Hall. The following are pre-approved technical elective courses:

Technical Electives

Principles of Computer Aided Architectural Design Advanced Computer-Aided Rendering & Animation Principles of Computer Aided Architectural Design Advanced Computer-Aided Rendering & Animation	Arch 122 Arch 129 Arch 222 Arch 229
Advanced Computer Graphics Production	Art 175
Planetary Astrophysics	Astron C162
Biological Mass Transport Phenomena Introduction to Computational MCB Computational Methods in Biology Topics in Computational Bio & Evolution	Bio Eng 104 Bio Eng 131/231 Bio Eng 143/243 Bio Eng 240
Introduction to Finance Strategic Planning Introduction to Financial Engineering Introduction to Management Science Planning and Design of E-Business Sys Negotiation and Conflict Resolution	UGBA 103 UGBA 119 UGBA 137 UGBA 140 UGBA 146 UGBA 152
New Media (Designing Virtual Worlds) New Media (Designing Virtual Worlds)	CNM 190 CNM 290
Physical Chemistry Physical Chemistry Biophysical Chemistry	Chem 120A Chem 120B Chem C130
Civil Engineering	All UD and Grad(1)
The Mind and Language The Neural Basis of Thought & Language Cognitive Neuroscience Computational Models of Cognition	Cog Sci C101 Cog Sci C110 Cog Sci C127 Cog Sci C131
Computer Science	All UD and Grad
Economic Theory—Micro Economic Theory—Macro Financial Economics Aggregate Economics Seminar Econometric Analysis	Econ 101A Econ 101B Econ 136 Econ 137 Econ 141
Electrical Eng. (EECS)	All UD and Grad
Engineering	All UD and Grad(2)
Special Topics in Film (depending on topic)	Film 140
Geographic Information Systems	Geog C188
Mathematical Methods in Geophysics Planetary Astrophysics	EPS 104 EPS C162
IEOR	All UD and Grad
Mobile Application Design & Development Needs & Usability Assessment Security and Privacy XML Foundations Applied Natural Language Processing Database Management Software Product Development Seminar - School of Information (depending on topic)	Info 152 Info 214 Info 219 Info 242 Info 256 Info 257 Info 290-8 Info 296A
The Mind and Language The Neural Basis of Thought & Language Introduction to Syntax & Semantics Computational Linguistics	Ling C105 Ling C109 Ling 120 Ling 158
Mathematics	All UD and Grad(3)
Mechanical Engineering	All UD and Grad
Principles of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Cell and Developmental Biology Laboratory Immunology Laboratory Neurobiology Laboratory Biophysical Neurobiology Advanced Topics in Systems Neuroscience Biophysical Chemistry: Physical Principles and the Molecules of Life	MCB 102 MCB 130L MCB 150L MCB 160L MCB 166 MCB 262 MCB C100A
Music Perception and Cognition Musical Applications of Computers Advanced Topics in Computer Music (depending on topic)	Music 108 Music 158 Music 209
Physics	All UD and Grad
Research & Data Analysis in Psychology Computational Models of Cognition Probabilistic Models of Cognition	Psych 101 Psych 123 Psych 128/290Q
Statistics	All UD and Grad(4)
Neural Computation	VS 265

(1) Except Civil Engineering 192, 252L, and 290R

(2) Except Engineering 102

(3) Except Mathematics 160

(4) Except Statistics 131A, 131B, and 131F

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