Information Science & Technology, Bachelor of Science: SAMPLE MATH-INTENSIVE FOUR-YEAR

NameThe degree requires a minor; this Math-intensive plan

PLAN. Student IDa Math minor.
assumes

Fall Freshman Spring Freshman

Course Units Grade Course Units Grade
MATH 122A/B Calculus I MATH 129: Calculus II
(meets ISTA graduation (MATH minor and pre-
requirements) requisite for math-intensive
English 101 coursework)
Indiv. & Soc 150 (ESOC 150) English 102
ISTA 116*: Statistical Indiv. & Soc 150
Foundations ISTA 130* or CSC 110
Language 101 Language 102
*It is recommended that students take ISTA 130 and 116
Summer before taking any ISTA “Intensive Computing” classes, as
they are pre-requisites for many of these courses. ISTA 130 is
Course Units Grade
an introductory programming course in the Python
programming language and is required for ISTA 131. CSC
110 can substitute for ISTA 130.
The rest of the core may be taken in any order.

Fall Sophomore Spring Sophomore

Course
ISTA 100: Great Ideas of the
Information Age
ISTA 131: Dealing with Data
(typically offered in Fall)
MATH minor course
Natural Science 170
Traditions & Cultures 160
***ISTA 421, and other ISTA math-intensive
coursework, requires Linear Algebra (MATH
313). 313 can also be applied to a MATH
minor and an ISTA “Intensive Computing”
requirement.
Units Grade Course Units Grade
ISTA 350**: Programming
(Intensive Computing)
(typically offered in Spring)
ISTA 311: Foundations of
Information (Intensive
Computing)
MATH 313***: Linear
Algebra (Intensive Computing
and MATH minor)
Traditions & Cultures 160
Natural Science 170
**ISTA 350 is not required for the major, but is the pre-
Summer requisite programming course for many of the ISTA
Course Units programming-intensive courses, such as: ISTA 424: Virtual
Grade
Reality; ISTA 425: Algorithms for Games; ISTA 450:
Artificial Intelligence; ISTA 457: Natural Language
Processing.
ISTA 350 requires ISTA 116, 130, and 131.

Fall Junior Spring Junior

Course Units Grade Course Units Grade
ISTA 421: Machine Learning ISTA 450 (typically offered in
(Intensive Computing) Spring) or other Math-
(typically offered in Fall) intensive (ISTA 410 or 457)
Research Methods and Data MATH minor Upper Division
Analysis (ESOC 302 or 214) Society course
MATH minor course
Tier II Arts
ISTA 161
Tier II Humanities
Tier II Individuals and Society

Summer
Course Units Grade

Fall Senior Spring Senior

Course Units Grade Course Units Grade
Individual Studies (Ind. Study, ISTA 498: Senior Capstone
Directed Research or Upper Division credit to meet
Internship) 42 units of Upper Division
Computational Arts course
Upper Division credit to meet
42 units of Upper Division