The Computer Science Department supports an interdisciplinary degree program in Information Science. Following the first 39 hours of courses in information science, computer science and statistics, students then develop, along with a faculty member in an appropriate department, a contract of upper division course work designed to provide the student with a firm grounding in a particular application within the framework of Information Science.
The Information Science major differs in content, goals, and perspective from the Computer Science major. The Computer Science major requires courses in programming, mathematics, and computational theory, appropriate for students with primary interests in the science of computing. The Information Science major also requires some courses in these areas, but additionally requires courses in the organization, representation, and manipulation of information, appropriate for students with primary interests in the theory, applications, management, and communication of information.