MIT Courses

Common MIT CS Courses

Courses both at MIT and here at Wellesley often change contents, number, or description. This page is provided to help you choose your courses, but please be aware that credit is not automatic and this list is not exhaustive. If you plan to take any of these courses, please see the Department Chair (contact info at left or below) in advance for credit approval.

MIT Courses with no Equivalent Course at Wellesley

Electronics

  • 6.2000 "Circuits and Electronics" - lab experience, no CS credit

Programming and Software Systems

  • 6.1010 "Fundamentals of Programming" - 200-level CS credit 
  • 6.9080 "Introduction to EECS I" - 200-level CS credit
  • 6.1020 "Elements of Software Construction" - 200-level CS credit
  • 16.35 "Real-Time Systems and Software" - 200-level CS credit
  • 6.1800 "Computer System Engineering" - 300-level CS credit
  • 6.1040 "Software Studio" - 300-level CS credit

Mathematical Programming

  • 18.330 "Introduction to Numerical Analysis" - 200-level CS credit
  • 18.453 "Combinatorial Optimization" - 200-level CS credit
  • 6.7210 "Introduction to Mathematical Programming" - 300-level CS credit

MIT Courses with an Equivalent Course at Wellesley

Introductory Programming

  • 6.100A "Introduction to Computer Science Programming in Python"
  • 6.100B "Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science"

  • Either 6.100A or 6.100L can replace CS 111

Core Courses

  • 6.1200J "Mathematics for Computer Science" can replace MATH 225
  • 6.1210 "Introduction to Algorithms" can replace CS 231
  • 6.1400J "Computability and Complexity Theory" can replace CS 235
  • 6.1910 "Computation Structures" can replace CS 240 but without the Lab credit
  • There is no MIT equivalent to CS 251

Electives

  • 6.4100 "Artificial Intelligence" similar to CS 232 - 200-level credit
  • 6.3900 "Introduction to Machine Learning" similar to CS 305 - 300-level credit
  • 6.4400 "Computer Graphics" similar to CS 307 - 300-level credit
  • 6.1600 "Foundations of Computer Security" similar to CS 342 - 300-level credit
  • 6.1100 "Computer Language Engineering" similar to CS 301 - 300-level credit
  • 6.8301 "Advances in Computer Vision" similar to CS 332 - 300-level credit
  • 6.1220J "Design and Analysis of Algorithms" similar to CS 331 - 300-level credit
  • 6.8701 "Computational Biology: Genomes, Networks, Evolution" similar to CS 313 - 300-level credit