May I count a newly created elective or deep course toward the BSCS? Must I follow a newly imposed prerequisite?
A “deep course” is just one that can be used as the last required computer science course in the major requirements in effect since Fall 2002. For Fall 2010 the deep courses are CS 116B, 123B, 153, 157B, 158B, 161, 167B, and 167C. The answer to the first question is yes, subject to any explicit restrictions placed on doing so. That is, if you are following the BSCS requirements as of a certain date, it doesn’t matter whether the course was an elective or a deep course was permitted on that date. For example, if you were already a CS major when CS 153 (Concepts of Compiler Design) became a deep course, and you are following the BSCS requirements that were in effect when you became a CS major, you can still use CS 153 as a deep course. The same applies to CS 161 (Software Project), which was another late addition to the list of deep courses. And the same applies to newly created elective courses such as CS 122 (Advanced Programming With Perl). However CS 49C (once known as CS 49) (Progra
