Mistakes commonly made when filing for a Computer Science major or modified major

1. Listing only courses that you have taken.
2. Listing only courses that you plan to take in the future.
3. Listing every course you have taken and are going to take, rather than just those for the major. Please do not add noise to the signal. We don't need to see Writing 5, for example.
4. Listing courses that you took in a term in which you did not take the course.
5. Listing courses that you plan to take in a term in which the course will not be offered. See the Upcoming Class Schedule page for our most complete schedule. If you are listing courses for terms after those listed on that page, take the last year of the schedule and project it forward one year; it'll probably be around 80% correct.
6. Failing to conform to the requirements of the major or modified major as laid out in the ORC.
7. Failing to include the prerequisites to the major and/or the culminating experience in the course list.
8. Listing courses with prerequisites before taking the prerequisites. Course prerequisites are listed on the pages with the course descriptions in the ORC.
9. Listing courses that do not exist.
10. Failing to include a rationale for the modified major (not required for COSC modified with ENGS or for COSC modified with Digital Arts, since these modified majors are specified in the ORC; ditto for ENGS modified with COSC).
11. The rationale for the modified major is included, but it does not discuss the reason for the modified major and/or does not discuss how each of the major courses in both the primary and secondary departments fit into the overall plan. Note that the Computer Science department requires the rationale to discuss each of the major courses from both parts of the major, regardless of what the other department requires.
12. Submitting the same flawed plan a second (or even third) time.