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The recommended four-year plan is designed to provide a blueprint for students to complete their degrees within four years. Students must meet with their Major Advisor to develop a more individualized plan to complete their degree. This plan assumes that no developmental courses are required. If developmental courses are needed, students may have additional requirements to fulfill which are not listed in the plan and may extend degree completion.
NOTE: This recommended Four-Year Plan is applicable to students admitted into the major during the 2023-2024 academic year.
To enroll, visit https://www.ramapo.edu/data-science/4plus1/
First Year
Fall Semester
- Gen Ed: Quantitative Reasoning – MATH 121 - CALCULUS I (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: INTD 101 - FIRST YEAR SEMINAR (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: CRWT 102 - CRITICAL READING AND WRITING II (HRS 4)
- Major: DATA 101 - INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE (HRS 4)
- Total: (HRS 16)
Spring Semester
- Major: CMPS 130 - SCI PROBLEM SOLVING-PYTHON (HRS 4)
- Major: MATH 237 - DISCRETE STRUCTURES WI OR MATH 205 - MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURES WI (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: - STUDIES IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES formerly known as - STUDIES IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES AIID 201 - STUDIES IN THE ARTS & HUMANITIES (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: - SOCIAL SCIENCE INQUIRY (HRS 4)
- Career Pathways: PATH TS1 - CAREER PATHWAYS MODULE 1 FOR THEORETICAL & APPLIED SCIENCE
- Total: (HRS 16)
Second Year
Fall Semester
- Major: CMPS 240 - DATA ANALYTICS IN PYTHON (HRS 4)
- Major: MATH 262 - LINEAR ALGEBRA WI (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: - HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES (HRS 4)
- Minor Requirement* (HRS 4)
- Career Pathways: PATH TS2 - CAREER PATHWAYS MODULE 2 FOR THEORETICAL & APPLIED SCIENCE
- Total: (HRS 16)
Spring Semester
- Major: DATA 301 - DATA ANALYSIS & VISUALIZATION (HRS 4)
- Minor Requirement* (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: - SCIENTIFIC REASONING (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: Distribution Category (choose 1): - CULTURE AND CREATIVITY, - SYSTEMS, SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIETY (Must be outside of TAS) (HRS 4)
- Career Pathways: PATH TS3 - CAREER PATHWAYS MODULE 3 FOR THEORETICAL & APPLIED SCIENCE
- Total: (HRS 16)
Third Year
Fall Semester
- Gen Ed: Distribution Category: - VALUES AND ETHICS – DATA 225 - ETHICS OF TECHNOLOGY WI (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: - GLOBAL AWARENESS (HRS 4)
- Minor Requirement* (HRS 4)
- Minor Requirement* (HRS 4)
- General Elective: Elective*** (HRS 2)
- Total: (HRS 18)
Spring Semester
- Major: MATH 370 - APPLIED STATISTICS (HRS 4)
- Major: CMPS 364 - DATABASE DESIGN (HRS 4)
- Minor Requirement*/Elective (HRS 4)
- Major: CMPS 231 - DATA STRUCTURES (HRS 4)
- General Elective: Elective (HRS 1)
- Total: (HRS 17)
Fourth Year
Fall Semester
- Major: CMPS 320 - MACHINE LEARNING (HRS 4)
- Major: CMPS 310 - BIG DATA PROGRAMMING1 (HRS 4)
- Minor Requirement*/Elective (HRS 4)
- Major: CMPS 547 - FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (HRS 3)
- Total: (HRS 15)
Spring Semester
- Major: DATA 450 - DATA SCIENCE CAPSTONE PROJECT WI (HRS 4)
- Major: CMPS 531 - DATA STRUCTURES & ALGORITHMS (HRS 3)
- MSCS Elective or DATA 620 - ETHICS IN DATA & COMPUTING (HRS 3)
- Major: CMPS 311 - OPERATING SYSTEMS2 (HRS 4)
- Total: (HRS 14)
Fifth Year
Fall Semester
- Major: MSCS Elective (HRS 3)
- Major: MSCS Elective (HRS 3)
- Major: MSCS Elective (HRS 3)
- Major: MSCS Elective (HRS 3)
- Total: (HRS 12)
Spring Semester
- Major: MSCS Elective or DATA 620 - ETHICS IN DATA & COMPUTING (HRS 3)
- Major: MSCS Elective (HRS 3)
- Major: CMPS 750 - COMPUTER SCIENCE THESIS (HRS 3)
- Total: (HRS 9)
Total Credits Required for undergraduate degree: 128 credits****
GPA Required for BS in Computer Science: 2.0
GPA Required for 4+1 Pathway: 3.0
WI: Writing Intensive-3 required in the major
1 Or another CMPS course from the set of courses outlined in the narrative above.
* As part of their degree requirements, Data Science majors are also required to complete a minor or double major to gain domain knowledge in a particular field, to better contextualize their data studies. Most minor programs require 5-6 courses. Any minor or second major can be selected: https://www.ramapo.edu/majors-minors/a-z/
*** Two additional free electives are required in the 3rd year because graduate courses are only 3 credits, instead of the usual 4 for undergraduate courses. Thus, a student must take an additional 3 credits to meet the 128-credit graduation requirement.
Total Graduate Credits Required: 30 credits****
GPA Required for MSCS: 3.0
****The 9 credits of graduate coursework taken in the fourth-year will double count towards both the undergraduate degree requirement of 128 credits as well as the required 30 graduate credits.
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