If you are a major in Information Science then you should take either ISC 111 or CSC 130 as your first course.
If you are a Computer Science or Math major or are considering a dual-degree engineering program, you should take CSC 130. CSC 130 is also an appropriate first course for other majors, particularly quantitative ones. It will provide you with an introduction to programming and problem solving emphasizing applications from quantitative disciplines. In addition, CSC 130 can serve as a non-lab science course in the science category for liberal studies.
If you are interested in a minor in Multimedia Authoring, you can take either ISC 310 or ISC 320.
If you plan a major in Finance, Management, Marketing, or Accounting, you should take CIS 211 as your first course. CIS 211 has no prerequisites.
If you plan to seek teacher licensure (elementary, special, middle grades, or secondary other than Math), you should take CIS 220. Note that either Education 211 or SOC 243 is a prerequisite for this course.
If you are interested in a minor in Geographical Information Systems, you should begin with ISC 111.
If you are a major in any other department or school at Elon, any 100 or 200-level course with no prerequisite would be appropriate.
Any course named computer science, ones with a CSC prefix, can count as a non-lab science course under the liberal studies science category. Computer Information Systems courses with a CIS prefix do NOT satisfy the science category of liberal studies.
To answer this question, visit the pages provided on this site about each program, Computer Science, Information Science, and Computer Information Systems. There you will find a brief and a longer description about each one, and you can follow links to other pages containing course descriptions and a list of required courses and a printer-friendly checklist of graduation requirements for each major.
Please contact your departmental advisor for assistance.
You can do a degree audit in ontrack and select ISC as your major. The degree audit will show all course substitutions. In general, every CIS course number has an ISC course number that is considered an equivalent substitution. For example, CIS 310 User Centered Web Design would count for ISC 310 Human Computer Interaction.
There are a few additional exceptions to converting to ISC. These are:
Please contact your departmental advisor for assistance.
No. Due to the course equivalence mappings, a ISC or CIS course can only count to satisfying the requirements for only one major.
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