The Bachelor of Arts (BA) is Otago's most flexible undergraduate degree programme, enabling students to study from a selection of more than 40 arts and social science subjects, as well as papers offered elsewhere in the University. Academic breadth is complemented by in-depth knowledge gained through majoring in one or two subjects with the option of minors in one or two others. Students are taught by research-active scholars, are expected to undertake a diverse range of learning tasks and are challenged to develop their intellectual independence. Graduates of the programme are well-informed, versatile, independent thinkers with the information literacy, communication, research and interpersonal skills necessary for a career or further academic study. The completed BA is an entry qualification for the PGDipArts in the major subject of the degree. Computer Science Computer Science is the study of computers and the work they do. We need a science of computers because, unlike other machines, computers are general purpose; the same machine can perform many different tasks and the same tasks can be done equally well by different computers. Because of this, the study of what a computer can do is more than the study of a particular machine. It is the study of what can be done by a device which processes information. Naturally Computer Science papers deal with the practical matter of making the computer do what we want it to (programming). But we also deal with many other questions about computing and computers. How do they work? How are they used? How do they fit into our society? What are their limitations? Today computers are used not only as a tool in commerce and science, but also for research in many disciplines, such as Anthropology and Linguistics. Computer Science can be taken as a major for both the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees and can also be included as a supporting subject in a Bachelor of Commerce degree. Some knowledge of computing is useful to all science students and many arts and business students even if you do not intend to major in Computer Science. Programme Requirements 100-level COMP 101 Foundations of Information Systems COMP 160 General Programming ENGL 127 Effective Writing One of MATH 151, MATH 160, MATH 170, COMO 101, STAT 110, STAT 115, BSNS 112, FINC 102, or an approved alternative COMP 150 Practical Programming (recommended) or another Arts paper 200-level COSC 241 Programming and Problem Solving COSC 242 Algorithms and Data Structures COSC 243 Computer Architecture and Operating Systems COSC 244 Data-communication, Networks, Internet 300-level COSC 326 Effective Programming Three of: COSC 301 Network Management COSC 341 Theory of Computing COSC 342 Computer Graphics COSC 343 Artificial Intelligence COSC 344 Database Theory and Applications COSC 345 Software Engineering COSC 346 Object-oriented Programming and User Interfaces COSC 360 Computer Game Design Plus 126 further points; must include 36 points at 200-level or above. Up to 90 points may be taken from outside Arts