Importance of Prerequisites
he Computer Science Department
has as one of its goals to be the top undergraduate department in
the country. We expect the education we provide our majors
will allow them to become technological leaders. To ensure proper
preparation, we completely revamped our curriculum
several years ago and have since made further significant
modifications to improve it. The result is a state-of-the-art
program of study that requires rigorous effort both on the
part of our faculty
and on our students. Two
measures of the success of our ongoing effort are the extreme
popularity of our courses and the number of schools that have
incorporated our curriculum into their programs of study.
To ensure that our courses can present the required important material
at the appropriate level, students must demonstrate adequate preparation to
take our courses. In particular, students must meet the prerequisite
requirements. Our prerequisite requirements for a given course specify both the
courses that must have been previously taken along with the minimal qualifying
grades in those courses. In general, the minimal qualifying grade for a
prerequisite course is C-. Students not meeting the requirements for a course
will not normally be permitted to enroll in that course. Please note
that for the overall good, prerequisite requirements are being strictly
enforced.
The following is a partial list of prerequisite requirements for
Computer Science courses.
- CS 201 -- requires
the completion of CS 101 with a
grade of C- or better.
- CS 202
-- requires the completion of CS
101 and with a grade of C- or better.
- CS 205 -- requires
the completion of CS 105 with a
grade of C- or better.
- CS 216 -- requires
the completion of CS 201 and
CS 202 with
grades of C- or better.
- CS 302
-- requires the completion of
CS 201
and
CS 202 with
grades of C- or better.
- CS 305 -- requires
the completion of CS 201 with a
grade of C- or better.
- CS 333 -- requires the
completion of CS 201 and
EE/CS
230 with grades of C- or better.
- CS 340 -- requires
the completion of CS 216 with
a grade of C- or better.
- CS 414 -- requires
the completion of CS 216 and
CS 333 with grades of C- or
better.
- CS 415 -- requires
the completion of CS 216 and
CS 333 with grades of C- or
better.
- CS 416 -- requires
the completion of CS 201 and
CS 202 with
grades of C- or better.
- CS 432 -- requires
the completion of CS 216 with grade of
C- or better.
- CS 433 -- requires the completion of CS 414 with grade of
C- or better.
- CS
434 -- requires the completion of
CS 333 with grades of C- or
better. Also,
APMA
213 and
APMA
310 are required.
- CS 445 Computer graphics -- requires the completion of
CS 216 with a grade of C- or
better.
- CS 453 -- requires the completion of
CS 340 with a grade of C- or
better.
- CS 457 -- requires
the completion of CS 201 and
CS 333 with grades of C- or
better.
- CS 458 -- requires the completion of
CS 457 or EE 457 with a grade
of C- or better
- CS 462 -- requires
the completion of CS
202 and CS 216 with grades
of C- or better.
- CS 494 --
requires the completion of CS
216 with a grade of C- or better.
- CS 551 Dependable Computing -- requires the completion of
CS 216,
CS 302, and
CS 333 with grades of C- or
better.
- CS 551 Electronic Commerce -- requires the completion of
CS 340 with a grade of C- or
better.
- CS 551 CAD -- requires the completion of
CS 432 with a grade of C- or
better.
- CS 551 Internet Engineering -- requires the completion of
CS 457 with a grade of C- or
better.
- CS 551 Architecture -- requires the completion of EE 435 with a grade
of C- or better.
- CS 551 Real-time Systems -- requires the completion of
CS 333 and
CS 414 with a grade of C- or
better.
- CS 551 Formal Techniques in Software Engineering -- requires a C- or
better in CS 340.
- CS 571 -- requires
the completion of CS 333 and
CS 340 with grades of C- or
better.
- CS 587 -- requires the completion of
CS 340 and either
CS 457 or
CS 414 with a grade of C- or
better.
- CS 588 Cryptography
-- requires the completion of
CS 302 with a
grade of C- or better.
For a complete of prerequisite for all Computer Science courses, please
consult the University of Virginia Undergraduate Record.
For further information, please contact the Computer Science
undergraduate program
director.
