All students are expected to complete COSC 1335, 1430, and 2430 or their equivalents before beginning the upper level major courses. These courses introduce general computer concepts and applications and develop programming skills. Programming skills are broadened through the completion of a course in a second high-level programming language.

Students pursuing an Information Systems degree have access to state-of-the-art laboratory facilities. The Computer Science Research Lab has two networks for student application development including multiple Windows and Sun Solaris severs and corresponding workstations. An oracle database system is available?