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Programs · Barnard College · 2025-2026

Computer Science at Barnard College: what LionPlan checks

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Tell us your school, your major, and what you have taken. A course card then shows what a class satisfies (“Satisfies Probability / Statistics”) and what it unlocks (“Opens up 7 more courses”), plus the section time and instructor rating.

The groups below are the ones LionPlan actually checks for this program. They were transcribed from the 2025-2026 Bulletin. Confirm them with your school before you register.

  1. Computer Science core

    All of these

    All of these: COMS W1004, COMS W3134, COMS W3157, COMS W3203, COMS W3261, CSEE W3827.

    Six required courses: Programming in Java, Data Structures in Java, Advanced Programming, Discrete Mathematics, Computer Science Theory, and Fundamentals of Computer Systems. This is the trackless curriculum, for students who entered Barnard in Fall 2023 or later. If you entered before that you are on the track-based curriculum, which this audit does not encode — see your adviser.

  2. Mathematics A — multivariable calculus

    Choose N

    Choose 1 of: MATH UN1201, MATH UN1205, APMA E2000.

    One of Calculus III, Accelerated Multivariable Calculus, or Multivariable Calculus for Engineers. MATH UN1201 requires Calculus I but not Calculus II; MATH UN1205 and APMA E2000 require both.

  3. Mathematics B — linear algebra

    Choose N

    Choose 1 of: COMS W3251, APMA E3101, APMA E2101, MATH UN2010, MATH UN2015.

    One of five. MATH UN2015 Linear Algebra and Probability counts here AND for the probability requirement below — the department states this is the only course in the major permitted to double count. COMS W3251 Computational Linear Algebra is on the department's list but has no row in our catalog; four options remain checkable.

  4. Mathematics C — probability

    Choose N

    Choose 1 of: STAT UN1201, STAT GU4001, IEOR E3658, MATH UN2015.

    One of four. If you took MATH UN2015 it satisfies this and linear algebra at once; that double count is granted explicitly by the department and is the only one in the major.

  5. Three Area Foundation Courses

    N matching

    3 courses matching including COMS BC3159, COMS BC3160, COMS BC3705, COMS W4111, COMS W4113, COMS W4115, COMS W4118, CSEE W4119, COMS W4152, COMS W4156, COMS W4160, COMS W4167, COMS W4170, COMS W4181, CSOR W4231, COMS W4236, COMS W4701, COMS W4705, COMS W4731, COMS W4733, CBMF W4761, COMS W4771, CSEE W4824, CSEE W4868.

    Three from the department's 24-course AFC list, which spans databases, distributed systems, languages, operating systems, networks, software engineering, graphics, HCI, security, algorithms, AI, NLP, vision, robotics, genomics, machine learning and architecture. One of the 24 — CBMF W4761 Computational Genomics — has no row in our catalog. It is kept anyway: dropping an option the department offers would tell a student who took it that it did not count, and 23 live options remain for a requirement that needs three.

  6. Three computer science electives

    N matching

    3 courses matching COMS or CSEE or CSOR or CSBS or BMCS or EECS or ORCS or STCS courses, numbered 3000 to 9999, not counting courses already used for another group in this program.

    "3 courses from COMS/CSXX/XXCS that are at the 3000 level or higher and are at least 3-point courses." Counted over the enumerated Computer Science subjects — note that CSER is the Center for Ethnicity and Race Studies and is deliberately NOT among them. Courses already consumed by the core, the mathematics requirements or the Area Foundation block do not count again here. The 3-point floor is not checked.

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