Entertainment Arts & Engineering

PRE-MAJOR REQUIREMENTS:

___ CS 1030, Foundations of CS (3 hours)
___ CS 1410, Object-Orient Programming (4 hours)
___ CS 2420, Algorithm/Data Structure (4 hours)
___ Math 1210, Calculus I (QR) (4 hours)
___ Math 1220, Calculus II (QR) (4 hours)

Students must complete each of the prerequisite courses with a C or better, and maintain a minimum 3.0 average GPA (overall and within major prerequisite courses) to apply for full major status.

MATH / SCIENCE ELECTIVES:

___ Physics 2210, Physics I (4 hours)
___ Math 2270, Linear Algebra (4 hours)
___ CS 3130, Eng Prob & Stats (QI) (3 hours)
___ CS Elective (4 hours)

Students must complete each of the prerequisite courses with a C or better, and maintain a minimum 3.0 average GPA (overall and within major prerequisite courses) to apply for full major status. Elective must be 3+ credits. Accepted: Math, science or engineering courses with Math 1220 as a pre- or co-requisite (See DARS). Biol 1210, Chem 1210 also accepted.
NOT Accepted: CS courses (except CS 3130). Math 2200, Math 3010. Math 2250 not accepted if Math 2270 and/ or Math 2280 are taken. Math 5010 and/or 3070 not accepted if CS 3130/ ECE 3530 is taken.

EAE CORE REQUIREMENTS:

___ EAE 1050, Digital Content Creation (3 hours)
___ EAE 2100, Intro to Game Design (3 hours)
___ EAE 3010, Asset Pipeline (3 hours)

Students must complete each of the prerequisite courses with a C or better, and maintain a minimum 3.0 average GPA (overall and within major prerequisite courses) to apply for full major status.

Major Requirements:

___ CS 2100, Discrete Structures (3 hours)
___ CS 3500, Software Practice I (4 hours)
___ CS 3505, Software Practice II (3 hours)
___ CS 3810, Computer Organization (QI) (4 hours)
___ CS 4150, Algorithms (QI) (3 hours)
___ CS 4400, Computer Systems (QI) (4 hours)

Students must complete each of the prerequisite courses with a C or better, and maintain a minimum 3.0 average GPA (overall and within major prerequisite courses) to apply for full major status.

EAE REQUIREMENTS:

___ EAE 3660, Machinima (3 hours)
___ EAE 3710, Traditional Game Development (3 hours)
___ EAE 3720, Serious Game Development (3 hours)

AREA FOCUS ELECTIVES:

Choose ONE class from each of the FOUR FOCUS AREAS (4 classes total – 12 to 13 hours):

___ AI/Analytics: CS 4300 (AI), CS 5140 (Data Mining),CS 5340 (NLP), CS5350 (Machine Learning) (3 hours)
___ Core/Fundamentals: CS 5150 (Adv Alg), CS 5460 (OS), CS 5470 (Compilers) (3-4 hours)
___ Human Centered Computing: CS 3540 (HCI), CS 4530 (Mobile Apps), CS 4600 (Graphics), CS/EAE 4xxx (Game AI), CS 5650 (Visual Perception) (3 hours)
___ Infrastructure: CS 3470 (Scripting), CS 4440 (Security), CS 4480 (Networking), CS 5530 (Database) (3 hours)

Choose 2 more classes from ANY of the FOCUS AREAS ABOVE (6 to 7 hours):

___ Area Focus Elective (3-4 hours)
___ Area Focus Elective (3-4 hours)

THEORY RESTRICTED ELECTIVE:

Choose ONE

___ CS 3100, Models of Computation (QI) (3-4 hours)
or
___ CS 3200, Scientific Computing (3 hours)