Department of Computing & Information Technology

B.Sc. Computer Science (Special) - CORE

NOTE: The following applies to students in programmes which began in Academic Year 2023/2024 or later.

Level 1 (24 Credits)

COURSES		PRE-REQUISITES
COMP 1600	Introduction to Computing Concepts	NONE
COMP 1601	Computer Programming I	NONE
COMP 1602	Computer Programming II	NONE
COMP 1603	Computer Programming III	NONE
COMP 1604	Mathematics for Computing	NONE
INFO 1600	Introduction to Information Technology Concepts	NONE
INFO 1601	Introduction to WWW Programming	NONE
MATH 1115*	Fundamental Mathematics for the General Sciences I	NONE

*MATH 1115 should be taken by students who do not have a pass in Pure Mathematics at CAPE Units I & II or GCE A-Level or equivalent. Students with passes in CAPE Pure Mathematics (Units I and II) or N1 Mathematics (MATH 0100 and MATH 0200) or A-Level Mathematics must apply for exemption without credit from MATH 1115 or MATH 1125 and will be required to pursue alternative courses as approved by the Head of Department. Students must apply for the exemptions using the Credit and Exemption Application Form accessed online from the UWI website under ‘Forms & Booklets.’

Level II/Level III (45 credits)

COURSES		PRE-REQUISITES
COMP 2601	Computer Architecture	COMP 1600
COMP 2602	Computer Networks	COMP 1600
COMP 2603	Object-Oriented Programming I	COMP 1602
COMP 2604	Operating Systems	COMP 1600
COMP 2605	Enterprise Database Systems	COMP 1601 OR COMP 1602
COMP 2606	Software Engineering I	COMP 1602
COMP 2611	Data Structures	COMP 1602
INFO 2602	Web Programming and Technologies I	INFO 1601
INFO 2604	Information Systems Security	COMP 1602
MATH 2250	Industrial Statistics	NONE
COMP 3601	Design and Analysis of Algorithms	COMP 2611
COMP 3602	Theory of Computing	COMP 1604
COMP 3603	Human-Computer Interaction	COMP 2606
COMP 3991	Applied Mathematics for Scientific Computing	COMP 1604
INFO 3604	Project	INFO 2600 OR COMP 2606

B.Sc. Computer Science (Special) - ELECTIVE

Level II/Level III (15 Credits)

COURSES		PRE-REQUISITES
COMP 3605	Introduction to Data Analytics	MATH 2250
COMP 3606	Wireless and Mobile Computing	COMP 2602 OR INFO 2601
COMP 3607	Object-Oriented Programming II	COMP 2603
COMP 3608	Intelligent Systems	COMP 2611 AND MATH 2250
COMP 3609	Game Programming	COMP 2603 AND COMP 2606
COMP 3610	Big Data Analytics	COMP 3605
COMP 3611	Modelling and Simulation	MATH 2250
COMP 3612	Special Topics in Computer Science	COMP 2611 AND COMP 2603
COMP 3613	Software Engineering II	COMP 2606
INFO 2605	Professional Ethics and Law	INFO 1600 OR COMP 1600
INFO 3600	Business Information Systems	COMP 2605
INFO 3605	Fundamentals of LAN Technologies	INFO 2601 OR COMP 2602
INFO 3606	Cloud Computing	COMP 2602 OR COMP 2605 OR INFO 2601
INFO 3607	Fundamentals of WAN Technologies	INFO 2601 AND COMP 2604
INFO 3608	E-Commerce	INFO 2600 OR COMP 2606
INFO 3609	Internship I	INFO 2600 OR COMP 2606
INFO 3610	Internship II	INFO 2600 OR COMP 2606
INFO 3611	Database Administration	COMP 2605
INFO 3612	Cybersecurity Operations & Incident Management	INFO 2604

Foundation Courses (9 Credits)

COURSES		PRE-REQUISITES
FOUN 1101**	Caribbean Civilization	NONE
FOUN 1105	Scientific and Technical Writing	NONE
FOUN 1301	Law, Governance, Economy and Society	NONE

**Students without a foreign language pass in CSEC/CAPE upon matriculation must register for a foreign language course at the Centre for Language Learning (CLL) instead of FOUN 1101. Visit the website https://sta.uwi.edu/fhe/cll/courses 2/undergraduate-students/ for more information. Students with a foreign language pass at CSEC (Grades I – III) or CAPE (Grades I – V) or an equivalent, shall be exempted without credit from the foreign language requirement and must register for FOUN 1101.