{"id":377,"date":"2023-09-22T18:05:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T18:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.csc.ncsu.edu\/undergrad-advising\/?page_id=377"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:38:50","slug":"csc-undergraduate-restricted-electives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.csc.ncsu.edu\/undergrad-advising\/csc-undergraduate-restricted-electives\/","title":{"rendered":"CSC Undergraduate Electives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n

SPECIAL TOPICS<\/strong>: There is no limit to the number of special topic sections students may use to satisfy undergraduate degree requirements, as long as each section covers a different topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RESERVED SEATS<\/strong>: Some courses have seats that are reserved for Concentration students. This means that X number of seats are reserved for students currently enrolled in a concentration and Y number are available for CSC majors without a concentration. Once the number of unreserved seats is full, students may add themselves to the waitlist. If the waitlist is full, please keep checking back for an open seat on the waitlist. The number of reserved seats will be lowered throughout the enrollment period and students on the waitlist will be enrolled first. There are no set dates for when seats will be released, so the only way to be enrolled in a previously enrolled seat is to join the waitlist.

WAIT LISTS<\/strong>: All courses on the lists below have a waitlist. Students who are on the waitlist will be enrolled in an available, unreserved seat automatically if they meet the requisites. Students may not be enrolled in a time conflict or over 18 hours, so use the “swap to waitlist<\/a>” feature when first enrolling in a class so that your enrollment may be processed without delay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CREDIT-ONLY, CBE, TRANSFER CREDIT, & STUDY ABROAD<\/strong>: For classes that are only offered as credit-only (S\/U), they still can be used in the appropriate category in your degree audit. These courses will have to be manually moved using the degree audit shift request form<\/a><\/strong>. The CSC Department limits students to a maximum of 6 hours of CSC RE and 6 hours of ORE that do not affect the GPA (credit-only, credit by exam, study abroad, transfer credit, etc.). The University limits students to a maximum of 12 hours of S<\/strong> to be applied to their undergraduate degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS<\/strong>: Course descriptions and up-to-date requisite information are available on https:\/\/webappprd.acs.ncsu.edu\/php\/coursecat\/directory.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CSC COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES<\/strong>: https:\/\/csc.ncsu.edu\/academics\/ugrad-courses\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Other Restricted Electives (ORE)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The table below includes classes that are only<\/strong> Other Restricted Electives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course<\/th>Topic<\/th>Notes<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
CSC 281 – 001<\/td>Foundations of Interactive Game Design<\/td>3 credit hours. Can alternatively be used as a GRE or an IDP GEP, but can only count in one slot in your degree audit.<\/td><\/tr>
CSC 291 – 001<\/td>Competitive Problem Solving<\/td>1 credit hour<\/td><\/tr>
CSC 291 – 002 + 201<\/td>Introduction to Robotics<\/td>3 credit hours (lecture + lab)<\/td><\/tr>
CSC 293 – 001<\/td>TA Training<\/td>1 credit hour<\/td><\/tr>
CSC 251 – 001<\/td>Python Applications<\/td>3 credit hours, pre-requisite of CSC 216, for CSC majors only.<\/td><\/tr>
CSC 297<\/td>001<\/strong>: Blockchain
00<\/strong>3: Secure Thinking 1<\/td>		1 credit hour each (credit-only), each topic can be taken only once.<\/td><\/tr>
CSC 299<\/a> – 001<\/td>Mentored Research in CSC<\/td>3 credit hours (credit-only)<\/td><\/tr>
CSC 201 (formerly E 298)*<\/td>Fundamentals of Applied AI for Engineering<\/td>3 credit hours (lecture + lab)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
The courses in this table can only be used in the “Other Restricted Elective, Group A” or “Free Electives” categories on the CSC BS degree audit.
*CSC 201 can only count as an ORE Group A class for students in a curriculum where CSC 201 is not currently required.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

CSC 291 – 002: Introduction to Robotics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pre-requisites<\/strong>: PY 205 and<\/strong> (CSC 111 or<\/strong> 113 or<\/strong> 116 or<\/strong> ECE 209)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Description<\/strong>: This course will introduce fundamental concepts in robotics that will allow students to further study many sub-fields of robotics. The course\u2019s topics will include rigid-body motion, robot manipulator kinematics, trajectory generation, Lagrangian mechanics, basic control theory concepts, and object-oriented programming. Course projects and exercises will utilize a high-level programming language and modern tools and environments used in robotics. Lecture and lab are required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seats are reserved for CSC<\/strong>, ME<\/strong>, and EE<\/strong> majors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n