ACADEMIC ADVISING FOR ALL COMPUTER SCIENCE MAJORS F14

NEW THIS YEAR: To ensure that you are getting appropriate academic
advising, you will not be able to preregister for spring classes until
your CS advisor removes the advising hold on your account.
Please see your advisor during their Group Advising Session to remove
the advising hold on your account.
CS Advisor
Josh Bongard
Maggie Eppstein
Bob Erickson
Jackie Horton
Byung Lee
Alison Pechenick
Chris Skalka
Robert Snapp
Xindong Wu

Fall 15 Group Academic Advising Times

Date
Time
Mon, Nov 3
6-8pm
Tues, Nov 4
3:30-5:30pm
Wed, Nov 5
7-9pm
Wed, Nov 5
7-9pm
Tues, Nov 11
11am-1pm
Tues, Nov 11
4:30-6:30
Mon, Nov 3
3-5pm
Thur, Nov 6
3-5pm
Thu, Nov 13
1:45-3:45pm

Room
367 Votey
369 Votey
L108 Lafayette
L108 Lafayette
229 Votey
367 Votey
457 Waterman
369 Votey
369 Votey

1) If you dont know who your CS advisor is, please look it up on myUVM
2) Stop during the group advising time/place for your advisor you may arrive any time
during this block and you do not need to attend the entire session we have attempted
to schedule these to overlap with your free times (if you have an unavoidable conflict
contact your advisor to schedule an alternative time).
3) Bring:
a) Your graduation checklist (ideally already filled in with the courses youve had so far)
b) Your working 4-year plan (ideally already filled in)
c) Your laptop
d) The list of courses you are considering taking in S15
e) If youre a senior, bring your CATS audit
4) Provide your advisor with hardcopy or softcopy of:
a) A copy of your graduation checklist
b) A copy of your 4-year plan with spring courses filled in
Details follow.

Memo:
TO: All Computer Science Majors
RE: Computer Science Advising Fall 2015
Starting this fall, we are experimenting with a new approach to undergraduate computer science
academic advising, which we hope will help you successfully navigate your CS curriculum and ideally
graduate in 4 years. As CS enrollments rise, this new plan will enable us to be more efficient and
effective in your academic advising and thus have time to meet with you individually as needed for more
specific advice.
CS advising will now be a combination of group and individual meetings with your assigned advisor.
Group meetings will be for routine academic advising prior to pre-registration each semester. If
you have an unavoidable conflict with your group advising time, please contact your advisor
asap to schedule an alternative time. After you have established a graduation checklist and 4year plan with your advisor, future communication r.e. academic advising may be by email if
you prefer.
As before, you may also schedule individual meetings with your advisor to discuss things specific
to your situation, such as academic difficulties and strategies to overcome them, advice on
careers or graduate school, etc., on an as needed basis.
Each student is required to maintain an updated graduation checklist and a working 4-year plan, to
bring these to each academic advising session, and to provide an updated copy to their advisor (in either
hard or soft copy) once they decide on classes for the upcoming semester. You should also ensure that
your graduation checklist is consistent with your CATS audit, especially as you approach graduation.
If you do not already have one, you can access a graduation checklist for your catalog year and program
as follows:
a.
b.
c.
d.

Go to: cs.uvm.edu
Select: Undergrad Programs from the frame on the left
Click on your degree program (BS CS, BS CSIS, BA CS)
Select the Catalogue year youre following (note that you can elect to follow any catalogue
year on or later than the year you matriculated into UVM).
e. Get the graduation checklist: for the current catalogue year you can get this checklist as an
Excel spreadsheet or as a pdf. For prior catalogue years only the pdf is available.
f. Using your unofficial transcript from MYUVM, fill in the checklist as best you can if you
have questions about which courses go where, note these down to ask your advisor.
A working 4-year plan is simply a working plan/record of what courses you have taken each semester
and what courses you tentatively plan to take in future semesters, to ensure that you are meeting your
graduation requirements. In general, you should strive to fulfill your calculus and up through Core CS
1xx course requirements by the end of your sophomore year. We have included a blank template for a
4-year plan, as well as some examples filled in for students in the different programs and with different
entry points. We also provide a list of which courses are typically offered which semesters and a graph
of course prerequisites to aid you in making your plan.

Typical CS majors Course Offerings (subject to change); additional courses and special topics will be
offered as possible.
Fall Semesters
CS 8 web dev
CS 21 Prog I python
CS 32 Puzzles, Games, Algs
CS 50 1st yr sem (starting F15)
CS 64 discrete structures
CS 110 Prog II Java
CS 121 Comp. Organization
CS 124 data structures

Spring Semesters
CS 8 web dev
CS 21 Prog I python
CS 50 1st yr sem (S15)
CS 64 discrete structures
CS 110Prog II Java
CS 124 -- data structures
CS 125comput. &
Complex.

CS 148 web database

CS 142 web design
CS 201 operating systems
CS 204database systems
CS 205soft. engineering
CS 206 evol. robotics
CS 222 comp. architechure
CS 228 hum./comp. Interface
CS 223 prog. Langs. (odd years)
CS 231 Prog. For Bioinf
(odd years)
CS 232 Meth. For Bioinf
(even years)
CS 243 theory of computation
CS 224 anal. of algorithms
CS 251 artif. Intel.
CS 254machine learning
CS 265 (even years) comp. net.
CS 266 net. Sec. & Crypto.
CS 274 comp. graphics
CS 275mobile apps & emb. Dev.
CS 287 Data Science & Vis I
CS 292senior sem.

CS 352 evol. computation

CS 292senior sem
CS 302 mod. Complex Sys
CS 332 data mining

Summer
CS 8 web dev online
CS 21 Prog I python online

Name
Year
1

BSCS BSCSIS BACS (circle one) Catalog Year

Fall

Spring

SEE EXAMPLES ON FOLLOWING PAGES

Summer (optional)

CS 21 IN FALL SEMESTER

BS CS

Catalog Year 14-15

Year
1

Fall
CS 8 or 32 (satisfies CS 0xx elective)
CS 21
Math 21
Engl 1

Spring
CS 50 (1 cr, recommended)
CS 110
CS 64
Math 22

Summer (optional)

CS 121
CS 124
Math 1xx elective

CS 125
CS 1xx
Math 1xx elective

internship

CS 201
CS 1xx
Stat 143

CS 2xx
CS 224* or 2xx

internship

CS 292 (1 cr)
CS 243* or 2xx

CS 2xx

Job!

*Students must take either CS 224 or CS 243

Shown above are only the CS and Math core requirements; Students must also fulfill their Science
requirements (3 courses), Humanities & Social Science Requirements (6 courses, including D1 and D2),
satisfy minor requirements, and complete at least 120 credits (i.e. average at least 15 credits per
semester).

CS 21 IN SPRING SEMESTER

BS CS

Catalog Year 14-15

Year
1

Fall
CS 8 or 32 (satisfies CS 0xx elective)
Engl 1

Spring
CS 50 (1 cr, recommended)
CS 21
Math 21

Summer (optional)

CS 110
CS 64
Math 22

CS 125
CS 124
Math 1xx elective

internship

CS 1xx
Stat 143
Math 1xx elective

CS 1xx
CS 224* or 2xx

internship

CS 201
CS 243* or 2xx

CS 2xx
CS 2xx
CS 292 (1 cr)

Job!

*Students must take either CS 224 or CS 243

Shown above are only the CS and Math core requirements; Students must also fulfill their Science
requirements (3 courses), Humanities & Social Science Requirements (6 courses, including D1 and D2),
satisfy minor requirements, and complete at least 120 credits (i.e. average at least 15 credits per
semester).

CS 21 IN FALL SEMESTER

BS CSIS

Catalog Year 14-15

Year
1

Fall
CS 8
CS 21
Math 21
Econ 11
Engl 1

Spring
CS 50 (1 cr, recommended)
CS 110
CS 64
Math 22
Econ 12

Summer (optional)

CS 148
CS 124
BSAD 60

CS 1xx
BSAD 61

internship

CS 121
CS 1xx
Stat 143
BSAD 120

CS 2xx
BSAD 132
BSAD 150

internship

CS 292 (1 cr)
CS 2xx
BSAD 141
BSAD 173

CS 2xx
BSAD 180
BSAD 1xx

Job!

Shown above are only the CS, Math, and BSAD core requirements; Students must also fulfill in their
Science requirements (2 courses), Humanities & Social Science Requirements (6 courses, including D1
and D2), and complete at least 120 credits (i.e. average at least 15 credits per semester).

CS 21 IN SPRING SEMESTER

BS CSIS

Catalog Year 14-15

Year
1

Fall
CS 8
Econ 11
Engl 1

Spring
CS 50 (1 cr, recommended)
CS 21
Math 21
Econ 12

Summer (optional)

Math 22
CS 110
CS 64
BSAD 60

CS 124
CS 1xx
BSAD 61

internship

CS 121
CS 148
Stat 143
BSAD 120

CS 1xx
CS 2xx
BSAD 132
BSAD 150

internship

CS 292 (1 cr)
CS 2xx
BSAD 141
BSAD 173

CS 2xx
BSAD 180
BSAD 1xx

Job!

Shown above are only the CS, Math, and BSAD core requirements; Students must also fulfill their
Science requirements (2 courses), Humanities & Social Science Requirements (6 courses, including D1
and D2), and complete at least 120 credits (i.e. average at least 15 credits per semester).

CS 21 IN FALL SEMESTER

BA CS

Catalog Year 14-15

Year
1

Fall
CS 8 or 32 (satisfies CS 0xx elective)
CS 21
Math 21
TAP CLASS

Spring
CS 50 (1 cr, recommended)
CS 110
CS 64
Math 22

Summer (optional)

CS 121
CS 124

CS 125

internship

CS 1xx
Stat 143

CS 224* or 2xx

internship

CS 292 (1 cr)
CS 243* or 2xx

CS 2xx

Job!

Shown above are only the CS, Math core requirements; Students must also fulfill their CAS distribution
requirements, D1 and D2 diversity requirements, minor requirements, and complete at least 120 credits
(i.e. average at least 15 credits per semester).

CS 21 IN SPRING SEMESTER

BA CS

Catalog Year 14-15

Year
1

Fall
CS 8 or 32 (satisfies CS 0xx elective)
TAP CLASS

Spring
CS 50 (1 cr, recommended)
CS 21
Math 21

Summer (optional)

CS 110
CS 64
Math 22

CS 124

internship

CS 121
CS 1xx
Stat 143

CS 125

internship

CS 243* or 2xx

CS 224* or 2xx
cS 2xx
CS 292 (1 cr)

Job!

Shown above are only the CS, Math core requirements; Students must also fulfill their CAS distribution
requirements, D1 and D2 diversity requirements, minor requirements, and complete at least 120 credits
(i.e. average at least 15 credits per semester).