The B.A. degree requires a CSC major to complete a minor in another academic program. The old system of concentrations is not in effect for any student entering Fall 2007 or later.

Here is the college list of approved minors. When you go to the home page for various departments, you may have to find a link on that page entitled "minors" or "program minors."

Not all programs have minors. For example, Digital Media Arts (DMA) currently does not. As of this moment, your only recourse would be to get a dual major in Computer Science and those programs that have no major, if you truly wanted to study them as your minor.

A minor is typically 6 courses. There is usually a progression of introductory courses to intermediate (sophomore) and on to a higher level course (junior or senior.) The programs set their own minors, which are approved by the Academic Program Board. The programs also decide which courses count towards a minor. The Computer Science Department has no say in this matter and can make no changes or substitutions.

In order to facilitate timely graduation, students seeking the BA degree in Computer Science should plan their area studies courses so that there is as much overlap as possible between approved area studies and their minor. For example, if you want to do a minor in Political Science, then find two of the lower level PSC courses that count for Area 2 credit. If you took, instead, two Sociology courses, which you thought fulfilled your Area 2 requirement, then you would have to take all 6 courses in the Political Science minor, for a total of 8 courses. On the other hand, if you had planned carefully, then you could have taken two PSC courses for Area 2 and also counted them as part of your Political Science minor, for a total of only 6 courses. See your advisor if you are confused or concerned about this.

For students who entered in the Fall 2006 or earlier, a different system of concentrations was in effect. Please check here for more information.