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Majors/Minors
The Department of Computer Science at Eau Claire offers four majors and three minors. Most students interested in computer science select our 61 credit comprehensive major (no minor required) in Computer Science, or our 70 credit comprehensive major (no minor required) in Computer Engineering; many others select our 38 credit major emphasizing Software Engineering supplemented by a 24 credit minor of their own choosing (for example: mathematics, business telecommunications, physics, art, music, etc). A few others, however, select a comprehensive Computer Science GIS/RS (Geographic Information Systems / Remote Sensing) major consisting of 60 credits and no minor. For those interested in majoring in some other discipline, the Department offers a 24 credit Computer Science minor, a 24 credit Web Design and Development minor, and a 24 credit Computational Science minor.
Curriculum Highlights
The computer science curriculum at Eau Claire is unique among Midwestern computer science programs. The Department has chosen to focus on providing an intense, demanding, and high-quality program that ensures that all graduates will be exceptionally well prepared either for jobs in industry or for continued education in graduate school. The curriculum consists of a sequence of integrated courses, each building on and extending topics from previous courses. The topics and problems discussed are taken from real industrial applications, and require a level of effort usually exceeding that of more traditional computer science programs. And the Computer Science program is ABET-CAC accredited!
Career Options
Graduates from Eau Claire in Computer Science are in great demand. A sample of the major employers include IBM, SGI, Cray, SLE, 3M, Lockheed Martin, Cargill, Great Lakes HEC, Schneider National, and the Mayo Clinic. Typical professions are applications programmer, computer consultant, software engineer, systems programmer, system manager, research programmer, Web developer, design verification engineer, and database technical analyst, to name only a few. In addition, a few graduates each year elect to continue their education at the graduate level at some of this nation's top universities in computer science.
