文科生求问CS double major的可行性

如题，LZ人在UW-Madison读library and information studies（SLIS），自觉本专业就业出路太窄未来前景一般，所以正在考虑要不要多上一些CS的课或者干脆双学位……转专业就不考虑了。。。
本科和研究生是一个专业，CS就学过一些最基础的课程，VB和C语言，然后选了一门多媒体。数学上过微积分线性代数和概率统计，但几乎都还给教授了因为后续专业课几乎没怎么用到……
当初选这个项目是考虑（毕业回国）到学校的专排和综排，我录了UTD的STEM项目information system都没去。。。但现在觉得先留美工作，之后无论是走是留应该都会更有竞争力。
目前了解到的情况是SLIS系内提供一定的CS课程，包括和power结合的coding（PHP），database design（MySQL），information architecture（CSS/HTML）。请教过院长，专业内意向偏technical的学生会去计算机系选修introduction to programming （Java）和data structure，然后再选一门HCI（本院也有HCI相关课程，但偏web；CS的偏robot）
Madison的CS对双学位相对友好（链接戳这个http://www.cs.wisc.edu/academics/graduate-programs/adding-second-major），但LZ比较担心进度跟不跟得上。。。
延期毕业是肯定的，如果我全力扑在SLIS上的话4个学期+1个暑假可以毕业（按照现在的进度我第一学年结束就能修掉SLIS 60%的学分），读双学位战线可能要拉到三年-三年半不等。
大致情况就是这样……想听听大家的意见。

同是uwm,同是double major, 來答一下。
首先，band 1和band 2很多課都需有上課的prerequirement，例如你想上640 得先上302->354->537（如果我沒有記錯的話），有些時候讓一起選課有些時候不讓。這些時間你都考慮了嗎？
其次，沒有編程基礎，甚至沒有上過在美國cs的課，我覺得很難知道自己是否能拿到ab+以上，或是有沒有興趣吃這口飯。

建議：找cs cross-major advisor，問他具體要多久能畢業。
我自己是上了algorithm（577）以後，才決定double major的。

为了方便大家阅读我把CS那边的双学位政策搬过来。
Adding a second major in computer sciences (M.S. only)

The Department of Computer Sciences (CS) will consider applications from graduate students--provided they have uniformly excellent graduate records in CS courses--for addition of the CS major, with the intention of completing a second master’s degree, in CS.  (Students intending to get a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences, seeking long-term TA support, or leaving their current graduate program without completing a degree must follow the procedures for “changing major to CS,” outlined in a separate document.)

Students who wish to apply for admission to this program must meet the following conditions:

1. Submit a letter from their major department attesting to their status in that program, indicating in particular the expected completion date for their terminal degree in that program.

2. Have obtained grades of AB or better in at least three CS courses numbered 500 or above in three different areas of computer science. At least one of these courses must be at the 700 level (not including CS 900). All of these courses must have been taught by a member of the CS department faculty.

3. Have two letters of recommendation from CS department faculty members, at least one of which should be from a faculty member whose primary academic appointment is in CS. These letters should attest to the student’s satisfactory performance in CS courses completed to date, and their ability to complete a master’s degree in CS.

4. At least one of the courses meeting requirement #2 must have a significant amount of programming in a structured language. This requirement is waived for those students who have also taken CS 367 (which cannot be counted toward the master’s degree in CS).

5. Provide a completed add/change major form and their student record to the CS graduate coordinator, along with the other application materials described above.

Note that a student in dissertator fee status who is admitted to the CS master's program loses his or her dissertator fee status. Dissertators who add a program or a certificate program must enroll and pay fees as a regular graduate student. This is a Graduate School rule.

Meeting these requirements guarantees that your application will be considered for admission to the program. However, it does not guarantee admission.

Applications for second major M.S. in Computer Sciences are accepted three times during each academic year, with deadlines of (a) one week before the start of classes in the Spring term (for admission in Spring term), (b) the last day of classes in Spring term (for admission in Summer term), and (c) one week before the start of classes in the Fall term (for admission in Fall term).

There are no retroactive admissions. Decisions concerning admissions will normally be made within two weeks of each application deadline.

Students should also check the Graduate School requirements for a double degree. Note that in order to obtain an M.S. in Computer Sciences students must fulfill the requirements stated in the CS Graduate Guidebook.

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Breadth requirement

To fulfill the breadth requirement for the PhD degree, a student must take at least one course from each of the bands 1, 2 and 3 listed below; the courses must all be outside of the student's qualifying exam area. The student may either take three courses, all numbered 700 or above, or four courses, two numbered 700 or above, and two numbered 500 or above. All grades must be at the AB level or above.

Band 1:
Computer Architecture: 552, 752, 755, 757, 758.
Computer Networks: 640, 707, 740.
Computer Security: 642.
Operating Systems: 537, 736, 739.
Programming Languages and Compilers: 506, 536, 538, 701, 703, 704, 706.

Band 2:
Artificial Intelligence: 534, 540, 545, 731, 760, 761, 766, 769.
Bioinformatics: 576, 776.
Computer Graphics: 559, 679, 777, 779.
Database Systems: 564, 764, 784.
Human-Computer Interaction: 570, 770.

Band 3:
Modeling and Analysis of Computer Systems: 547, 737, 747.
Numerical Analysis: 513, 514, 515, 717.
Optimization: 524, 525, 635, 719, 720, 726, 728, 730.
Theory of Computing: 520, 577, 710, 787, 880.

In addition, some offerings of CS 838 count towards the breadth requirement. Before each term, it is announced which sections do and what area/band they are in.

queiie 发表于 2016-12-15 06:24
同是uwm,同是double major, 來答一下。
首先，band 1和band 2很多課都需有上課的prerequirement，例如你想 ...

确实，我目前的状况就是得先补基础课。编程我下学期先选了自己院里的，CS那边的准备去听起来。
现在只能说有初步意向吧，按照进度完成先修课程能选algorithm最早也要到明年秋天。
cross-major advisor就是CS学院的advisor么？

本科曾双学位(BA, BS)的路过，觉得多花的时间不值。UWM这个项目毕业后是一个MS两个major还是2个MS？为什么不直接换成CS呢

https://www.cs.wisc.edu/academics/graduate-programs/gac

只是去聽的話沒有credit。
我們學校有些課是一定要有credit，就算有基礎也waive不了的，最好跟prof/advisor問清楚。

yangluphil 发表于 2016-12-15 07:04
本科曾双学位(BA, BS)的路过，觉得多花的时间不值。UWM这个项目毕业后是一个MS两个major还是2个MS？为什么 ...

直接转CS仅限PhD项目……
如果能读下来的话是我本专业的MA+CS的MS。

queiie 发表于 2016-12-15 07:13
只是去聽的話沒有credit。
我們學校有些課是一定要有credit，就算有基礎也waive不了的，最好跟prof/adviso ...

谢谢，我过几天due结束了就去CS那边问。
冒昧地问下你的double major读了多长时间……

绛珠弟子 发表于 2016-12-15 07:15
直接转CS仅限PhD项目……
如果能读下来的话是我本专业的MA+CS的MS。

建议每个夏天都有实习，那3年多后找工作应该还是很有竞争力，而且现在开始先着重学CS，保证找实习不会太吃亏