What are computing course clusters and how do they relate to application areas?
Computing is not done in a vacuum; people use computers for some purpose. It is therefore important for majors in computing to have some background in an area supportive of some application of computers. For this reason, the major in Computer Science requires three advanced courses (nine hours) to be taken in an application area offered by another department. These courses should be related to the major courses taken. The combination of major courses and application area courses is referred to as a computing course cluster. A course cluster must contain at least three advanced application area courses offered by at most two other departments and at least two advanced CSCE courses taken as major electives. It may be necessary to take additional courses as prerequisites to the application area courses if they are not already required in the program of study. The requirements specified are minimum requirements, and students are strongly encouraged to take additional courses. Some cluster
