Click here to find your Computer Science Advisor. This information is also maintained on the bulletin board by MH 208. Note that there is provision for advising students whose regular advisor is on leave.
It may be difficult to get a minor in computer science for the foreseeable future. The reason is that it is difficult for nonmajors to get CS classes, and not possible at all for nonmajors to preregister for most of these classes. Four of the six classes needed for the minor are CS classes. There's a significant chance that even students who complete the first few classes will not be able to get the remaining classes. So your progress toward the minor may be halted at any point.
If you are willing to live with this uncertainty, you may fill out a minor declaration form and leave it in the Computer Science Department office, MH 208, for me, or bring it to me during my office hours.
These forms should already be signed by an advisor. You should have already filled out a course equivalency form for all relevant transfer courses (if you haven't, then you should provide copies -- unofficial copies are ok -- of all relevant transcripts. Note that this may delay processing of your form). I can check them while you wait only if no other students are waiting for me. Otherwise it may take me a day to a week, depending on the press of other business.
I can often write the appropriate letter immediately, and almost always within a day or two, provided that you have your graduation worksheet to show me. I will need to see you in person. Check my availability on my home page.
You may not have received your graduation worksheet if you turned in your graduation application recently. Otherwise you should contact the registrar's office if you don't have it.
Course equivalency forms are the documents that are used in the CS major to give credit toward the BS in CS for courses taken elsewhere. It is important that you fill these out early (1) to verify to course instructors that you have the prerequisites for their courses, (2) to speed the processing of your graduation application, and (3) so that you don't have any unpleasant surprises as you near graduation about course requirements that you thought that you had met.
To fill out these forms: If you are a new student, check www.cs.sjsu.edu/Programs/cs_advis/cs_advise.html to determine which advisor to see. Otherwise, see your regular advisor.
An advisor may refer you to me for help in filling out the forms. I can check them while you wait only if no other students are waiting for me. Otherwise it may take me a day to a week, depending on the press of other business. For the more complicated forms, I may want to talk to you briefly even if other students are waiting.
The university allows departments to disqualify students from any of their majors. It does require that the effect be that students be disqualified from the major who are below a 2.0 grade point average for all units in the major at SJSU and have achieved less than a 2.0 grade point average in the major in two successive semesters. The Department of Computer Science reserves the right to disqualify students from the Computer Science major.
You may be disqualified from the university if your university GPA falls sufficiently far below 2.0. How far you are allowed to fall below 2.0 depends on your class standing; see the university catalog for details.
Note that if you are disqualified from the university, then you are no longer enrolled in the CS major. The easiest way to get reinstated into the university is to see the CS undergraduate advisor, who will arrange an appropriate program of study for you.