About the Program

The Computer Science Program at Bard offers courses of interest to computer science, science, and non-science majors. The program focuses on teaching fundamental ideas of computer science and in the process introduces students to a wide variety of programming languages that emphasize different programming paradigms.

The Computer Science Major

Before undertaking an upper-college concentration and senior project in computer science, a student must moderate into computer science. By the time of moderation a student in the program should have completed or be enrolled in:

By graduation a student in the program must take

Algorithms (CMSC 301)
Design of Programming Languages (CMSC 305)
Theory of Computation (CMSC 312)
Operating Systems (CMSC 326), Distributed Systems (CMSC 327), Computer Networks (CMSC 350), or Multiprocessor Computer Architecture (CMSC 325)
two or more computer science courses numbered 300 or above
a Senior Project

Students in the Computer Science Program are expected to follow the standard divisional procedure for Moderation, and to fulfill the collegewide distribution and First-Year Seminar requirements.