Curriculum Capsules 2003

University of California, Irvine
Office of Admissions and Relations with Schools

UCI CURRICULUM CAPSULES
A BULLETIN FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES

FALL 2003

UCI Curriculum Capsules is published annually by the Office of Admissions and Relations with Schools at the University of California, Irvine. This edition highlights curricular changes effective fall 2003. Please use it in tandem with the 2003-2004 UCI General Catalogue. For additional information, contact the Office of Admissions and Relations with Schools at (949) 824-6703. This bulletin may be duplicated as necessary.

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Admission into all departments within the School of Social Ecology is closed to Second Baccalaureate degree applicants. The Department of Environmental Health Science and Policy is an exception, with admission remaining open to Second Baccalaureate degree applicants in the majors of Environmental Analysis and Design, and Applied Ecology.

UC Irvine is closed to all applicants for spring quarter 2004.

Additional information regarding general transfer admission may be found on page 17 of the 2003-04 UC Irvine General Catalogue, or at http://www.admissions.uci.edu/.

The Arts Interdisciplinary major is not being offered at this time, and the School has no immediate plans to re-open the major. Information is available from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at (949) 824-6646.

New Major in Computer Science
New for fall 2003 is a B.S. degree program in Computer Science.
The program prepares students for professions and careers in industry and provides students with the tools for advanced education at the graduate level. The basis of the undergraduate program is a set of fundamental courses in mathematics and computer science, supplemented by breadth requirements from other academic disciplines. A premium is placed on writing and quantitative skills.
Students transferring to UCI must satisfy the following requirements:
1. Completion of one year of college mathematics. Courses equivalent to Mathematics 6A-B-C (Discrete Mathematics) are preferred as this facilitates scheduling after transfer to UCI. If these are not available, students should take first-year calculus. A semester of pre-calculus and a semester of calculus may not be used to satisfy this requirement.
2. Completion of one year of computer science courses. The course work must contain one UC-transferable programming course, involving concepts such as those found in C++, Java, Eiffel, or another object-oriented, high-level language. Programming-only courses in Basic, Fortran, COBOL, Pascal, and C are not acceptable. It is strongly recommended that students select UC-transferable courses that do not focus strictly on learning a programming language but instead focus on topics such as object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and computer architecture, if such courses are available.
Additional courses beyond the programming course required for admission must be taken to fulfill the lower-division degree requirement. Transfer students must enter UCI with knowledge of Java since it is used in the lower-division computer science requirement and serves as a foundation for upper-division programming-related courses.
There is a limit on the number of applicants admitted to the major.
NOTE: For both the Information and Computer Science and Computer Science majors, five lower-division courses are required and must be taken in a certain sequence. Students who transfer to UCI as juniors and must complete all or part of this sequence will therefore find that it will take longer than two years to complete their degree.
To ensure admission consideration for the fall quarter, students should be sure to file their application by November 30 of the prior year. The selection criteria include grades, test scores, and other factors. Note, however, that in cases where the number of incoming freshman and advanced standing students who elect ICS or CS as a major exceeds the number of positions available, not all applicants will be accommodated.
Students may not double major in ICS and CS.
Transfer students interested in this major may contact the School of Information and Computer Science at (949) 824-5156. Additional information is available on page 298 of the 2003-04 UC Irvine General Catalogue.

New Major in Computer Science and Engineering
New for fall 2003 is a B.S. degree program in Computer Science and Engineering.
The goal of the undergraduate major in Computer Science and Engineering is to provide students with an integrated background in both computer science and computer engineering. The program is designed to provide students with the fundamentals of hardware and software computer science and the application of engineering concepts, techniques, and methods to both computer systems engineering and software engineering. The program is administered jointly by the School of Information and Computer Science and The Henry Samueli School of Engineering's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Priority will be given to junior-level applicants with the highest grades overall, and who have satisfactorily completed the following required courses: one year of calculus, one year of engineering physics (with laboratory), one year of Java programming, and one additional approved course for the major.
Students are encouraged to complete as many of the lower-division degree requirements as possible prior to transfer. Students who enroll at UC Irvine in need of completing lower-division course work may find that it will take longer than two years to complete their degrees.
Transfer students interested in this major may contact the School of Information and Computer Science at (949) 824-5156, or The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at (949) 824-4334. Additional information on the major may be found on pages 203 and 295 of the 2003-04 UC Irvine General Catalogue.

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