Pre-Professional Studies in C.S.

This certificate solves a problem for students with an international 3-year undergraduate degree, who want ot get into a U.S. graduate school like Loyola's, and who need the equivalent of a 4-year undergraduate degreee to be admitted. Not only does Loyola accept this eight course certificate as the equivalent of a fourth undergraduate year, it provides all the undergraduate Computer Science prerequisites needed for our Masters programs in the Computer Science Department, plus some of the breadth in the humanities common to U.S. degrees.

Minimum Requirements in Computer Science:

If a student already has the knowledge of a course from earlier courses or work experience, a Computer Science course numbered at least 300 may be substituted with approval of the Undergraduate Program Director.

COMP 163

Discrete Structures

COMP 170

Introductory Object-Oriented Programming

COMP 170

COMP 271

Structured Programming & Data Structures; Prerequisite: COMP 170 

COMP 3XX

6 credits of 300 level elective 

Select 2 of the following:

COMP 111

   History of Computing

COMP 317

   Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing 

CMUN 101

Public Speaking & Critical Thinking 

CMUN 150

Communication Processes

CMUN 224

Organizational Communication Prerequisite: CMUN 150.

HIST 101

Evolution of Western Ideas & Institutions to the 17th Century

HIST 102

Evolution of Western Ideas & Institutions since the 17th Century

HIST 201

United States to 1865

HIST 202

United States since 1865

PHIL 180

 Being Human: Philosophical Perspectives 

PHIL 174

 Logic