Plan Requirements Checklists (2004-2005)

The following pages contain the requirements for the plans offered by the School of Computer Science in a handy checklist format.

All of the checklists include courses from the Math Faculty core. These courses come in the Honours version as well as an advanced version. Either version of the course will satisfy the requirements. To conserve space in the checklists, a requirement such as “MATH 135 or 145” is abbreviated as “MATH 1[34]5”. Any one of the digits inside the square brackets may be used to form a valid course number.

In the following checklists, the “Required Courses” section should contain 40 unique courses. Some of these are unspecified and will vary from student to student. A particular course can satisfy one and only of the required courses.

The checkboxes in the “Additional Constraints” section are different. Each constraint is evaluated independently; the same course may be used to satisfy more than one constraint. For example, the three courses PSYCH 101, PSYCH 211 and PSYCH 312 can be used to satisfy the breadth requirement (1.0 units from Arts Group B) and also satisfy the depth requirement (1.5 units with the same prefix forming a prerequisite chain of length three).

The term "Non-Math unit" refers to any course that is not offered by the Mathematics Faculty, plus MTHEL (Math elective) courses. The term "Elective" means any course, offered for university credit. Both terms exclude courses that are specifically labelled as not for Honours or Honours Math students, or courses that are on the Faculty's no-credit list. In addition, be careful not to take two or more courses with significant course overlap.

Many of the checklists make reference to "Arts Group A" and "Arts Group B". These are groupings of courses defined by the Arts Faculty. Group A comprises courses in the humanities, and Group B comprises courses in the social sciences. Computer Science has augmented the list, for our purposes, to include Accounting, Business, and Management Science courses. Courses in each group begin with the prefixes in the following tables:

Arts Group A
CHINA	Chinese	GER	German	MUSIC	Music
CLAS	Classical Studies	GRK	Greek	PHIL	Philosophy
CROAT	Croatian		Hebrew	POLSH	Polish
DRAMA	Drama	HIST	History	PORT	Portuguese
DUTCH	Dutch	ITAL	Italian	RS	Religious Studies
ENGL	English	JAPAN	Japanese	RUSS	Russian
FINE	Fine Arts	KOREA	Korean	SPAN	Spanish
FR	French	LAT	Latin	UKRAN	Ukrainian
In addition, the following specific courses may be used to meet the Group A requirements: JS 101A, 101B, 201A, 201B, EASIA 201R, and ARTS 301.
Arts Group B
AFM	Accounting	ECON	Economics	PSCI	Political Science
ANTH	Anthropology	GEOG	Geography	PSYCH	Psychology
BUS	Business	MSCI	Management Science	SOC	Sociology

The “Depth” requirement may be met in two ways:

• 3 courses (1.5 units) at 3rd year level or higher that have the same prefix, or
• 3 courses (1.5 units) with the same prefix forming a prerequisite chain of length three.

Here are a number of examples of prerequisite chains of length three:

• BUS 121W, followed by BUS352W, followed by BUS 362W.
• ECON 101, followed by 201, followed by one of 331, 333, 341, 342, 355, 357, 361.
• ECON 101 and 102, followed by 202, followed by one of 301, 302 (note that 2 courses are required before taking 202 but they do not form a chain).
• ECON 101 and 102, followed by 231, followed by one of 334, 335 (note that 2 courses are required before taking 202 but they do not form a chain).
• JAPAN 101R followed by 102R, followed by 201R.
• PHYS 121, followed by 122, followed by one of 222, 226, 234, 263.
• PSYCH 101 followed by 207, followed by one of 304, 306, 307, 308.

Many subject areas do not have prerequisite chains. Students interested in these areas should simply take three courses at the 3rd year level or higher.