# Liberal Arts and Sciences: Mathematics, Pre-Engineering and Computer Science (Associate of Arts)

San Diego Mesa College · 2026-2027 Catalog · Department: Computer and Information Sciences

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## LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES: MATHEMATICS, PRE-ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE-Associate of Arts Degree: MESA

### Summary

The Liberal Arts and Sciences: Mathematics, Pre-Engineering and Computer Science degree is intended to help students prepare for possible majors within those areas or related majors. This degree is designed to accommodate the differing requirements of a wide variety of transfer institutions and major options. Because admission and major preparation requirements vary at each transfer institution, courses used to complete this major must be selected with the assistance of a San Diego Mesa College counselor.

Liberal Arts and Sciences associate degrees require a minimum of 60 transferable units to a California State University, University of California, or a private/independent college or university.

**Award Note:**
The Associate Degree requires a minimum of 60 degree applicable semester units.

**Learning Outcome(s): Students who complete the Liberal Arts and Sciences: Mathematics, Pre-Engineering and Computer Science Program will be able to:**

1.  • Use technological software to design and implement projects.
2.  Apply their knowledge of math and science to analyze, conceptualize, identify, formulate, and solve problems.
3.  • Communicate effectively and perform on multi-disciplinary teams and groups.
4.  Increase their global awareness by using techniques, skills and modern global scientific tools.

### Requirements

| Course | Title | Units |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Select a minimum of 18 units from the following:** | | 18 |
| BIOL 107 | General Biology-Lecture and Laboratory | 4 |
| BIOL 210A | Introduction to the Biological Sciences I | 4 |
| BIOL 210B | Introduction to the Biological Sciences II | 4 |
| CHEM 200 | General Chemistry I - Lecture | 3 |
| CHEM 200L | General Chemistry I - Laboratory | 2 |
| CHEM 201 | General Chemistry II - Lecture | 3 |
| CHEM 201L | General Chemistry II - Laboratory | 2 |
| CISC 106 | Introduction to Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence | 4 |
| CISC 112 | Introduction to Computer Science with Visual Programming | 4 |
| CISC 150 | Introduction to Computer and Information Sciences | 3 |
| CISC 152 | Introduction to the Linux Operating System | 4 |
| CISC 179 | Introduction to Python Programming | 4 |
| CISC 181 | Principles of Information Systems | 4 |
| CISC 187 | Data Structures in C++ | 4 |
| CISC 190 | Java Programming | 4 |
| CISC 191 | Intermediate Java Programming | 4 |
| CISC 192 | C/C++ Programming | 4 |
| CISC 193 | Microsoft C# Software Engineering 1 | 4 |
| CISC 210 | System Analysis and Design | 3 |
| CISC 211 | Computer Organization and Assembly Language | 4 |
| CISC 217 | Intermediate Python Programming | 4 |
| CISC 246 | Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science | 3 |
| ENGE 116 | Computational Methods in Engineering | 3 |
| ENGE 151 | Computer-Aided Design | 2 |
| ENGE 200 | Statics | 3 |
| ENGE 210 | Properties of Materials | 3 |
| ENGE 250 | Dynamics | 3 |
| ENGE 260 | Electric Circuits | 3 |
| STAT C1000 | Introduction to Statistics | 3 |
| MATH 111 | Introduction to Data Science I | 3 |
| MATH 150 | Calculus with Analytic Geometry I | 5 |
| MATH 151 | Calculus with Analytic Geometry II | 4 |
| MATH 245 | Discrete Mathematics | 3 |
| MATH 252 | Calculus with Analytic Geometry III | 4 |
| MATH 254 | Introduction to Linear Algebra | 3 |
| MATH 255 | Differential Equations | 3 |
| PHYS 195 | Mechanics | 5 |
| PHYS 196 | Electricity and Magnetism | 5 |
| PHYS 197 | Waves, Optics and Modern Physics | 5 |
| WEBD 152 | Beginning Web Development: HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) | 3 |
| WEBD 164 | Javascript Fundamentals for Web Development | 3 |