Computing Science and Mathematics Joint Major

Program at-a-glance

This program emphasizes powerful and versatile skills including abstraction, critical thinking, logical analysis, and problem solving.

Students in this program gain a firm foundation in pure mathematics and go on to apply their mathematical and computational skills in the workforce. Finance, computer science and cryptography are all areas where pure mathematics is of vital importance. Flexible options allow students to tailor the program to their interests and future career goals.

Year 1 & 2 - students are introduced to computational topics such as abstract languages, algorithms, data structures and differential equations. By the end of year two, students will have learned one or more programming languages as well as understand hash tables, stacks and object oriented programming.

Year 3 & 4 - by the end of the degree, students will have explored the range of concepts and topics that make up the computing science discipline including linear and continuous optimization, compiler design, modelling and simulation, and other computing topics.