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"
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