Honors

To graduate with Honors, a Computer Science major must:

The Honors thesis and defense will be judged by a three-person committee consisting of the thesis advisor and two other faculty members whose background is relevant to the project. Membership of the committee must be approved by the Computer Science Research Support Committee. All members of the Honors committee must be present at the defense and must unanimously agree on conferral of Honors. Honors theses will be published by the Department as Technical Reports.

Transfer Credit Policy

Students receiving transfer credit for mathematics courses taken at other institutions who wish to take more mathematics at UMass Boston at a level below MATH 141 may find that their placement test scores indicate that they must repeat courses for which they already have credit. If they do, they will forfeit the transfer credit. An alternative that entails no loss of credit is to audit the UMass Boston course as preparation for retaking the placement exam.

Transfer credit for AP calculus or more advanced work, or through CLEP is handled by the Admissions Office in cooperation with the department.

Meeting General Education Requirements

For students who matriculated with fewer than 30 credits in Fall, 2000 or Spring 2001, and for all students matriculating in Fall 2001 and thereafter (i.e. all students under Curriculum "B"), courses with a "G" prefix meet the Critical Analysis requirement. G100-level courses are designated "First Year Seminars"; G200-level courses are "Intermediate Seminars."

If students who matriculated prior to Fall, 2000 with fewer than 30 credits (those under Curriculum "A"), have not yet completed their 2-course Core requirement, they must do so by completing one G200 course (Intermediate Seminar).

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