Computer Science at James Madison University

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate CIS work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 27 CIS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 9 more CIS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on CIS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in CIS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at CIS 354

  1. CS 149Introduction to Programming
  2. CS 159Advanced Programming
  3. CIS 221Principles of Programming
  4. CIS 354Advanced Visual Basic Programming

• 4 courses deep, ending at CIS 484

  1. CS 149Introduction to Programming
  2. CIS 330Database Design and Application
  3. CIS 331Intermediate Computer Programming

• 3 courses deep, ending at CIS 311

  1. COB 204Computer Information Systems
  2. CIS 204Computer Information Systems Fundamentals for Non-Business Majors
  3. CIS 311Analyzing Data in Organizations

• 3 courses deep, ending at CIS 420

  1. CIS 304Enterprise Architecture
  2. CIS 320Principles of Computing Networks
  3. CIS 420Advanced Topics in Computing Networks

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for CIS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CIS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

Computer Science does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the JMU campus feed.