COSC at Samford University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate COSC coursework.

• COSC 210Introduction to Programming IIopens 6 courses (2.5 directly)
• COSC 310Advanced Programming Conceptsopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• COSC 315Databases and Information Managementopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• COSC 260Game Design and Programmingopens 1 course (1 directly)
• COSC 335Operating Systemsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• BIOL 306Principles of Bioinformaticsopens 1 course (0.5 directly)

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 COSC 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 COSC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 5 more COSC courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

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

The longest ladders

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

• 4 courses deep, ending at COSC 320

  1. COSC 110Introduction to Programming I
  2. COSC 210Introduction to Programming II
  3. COSC 310Advanced Programming Concepts
  4. COSC 320Software Development

• 3 courses deep, ending at COSC 360

  1. COSC 110Introduction to Programming I
  2. COSC 260Game Design and Programming
  3. COSC 360Game Tech and Programming

• 3 courses deep, ending at COSC 407

  1. BIOL 203Foundations of Biology I
  2. BIOL 306Principles of Bioinformatics
  3. COSC 407Advanced Bioinformatics

• 3 courses deep, ending at COSC 440

  1. COSC 110Introduction to Programming I
  2. COSC 315Databases and Information Management
  3. COSC 440Cybersecurity Engineering

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for COSC yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under COSC yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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