Students who took an introduction to computer science class at another institution or believe that they have sufficient knowledge to test out of CS 150 are welcome to take a departmental exam. The exam requires knowledge of Python and a variety of topics including but not limited to control flow, basic data structures, classes, functions, and recursion. Part of the exam requires writing software to satisfy a specified behavior. Students who wish to take the exam should contact the department coordinator to schedule a time. Students who took the AP Computer Science A test do not need to take this exam nor do students who took an equivalent, in-person class at another institution. Equivalency is determined by the department chair.
If you are a first-year student, and intend to major in computer science, write to krothert@richmond.edu to request addition to the list serv.
Special Topic Courses
CMSC 395: Game Design
CMSC 395: Natural Language Processing
University of Richmond senior Camryn Carter, ’24 of North Chesterfield, Virginia, has been selected by Cell Press for a Rising Black Scientist Award. Camryn is a double major in Computer Science and Chemistry
Joonsuk Park, associate professor of computer science, published "Hierarchical Deconstruction of LLM Reasoning: A Graph-Based Framework for Analyzing Knowledge Utilization" in the Proceedings of the Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
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Joonsuk Park, associate professor of computer science, published the paper "LifeTox: Unveiling Implicit Toxicity in Life Advice" in Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).
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Joonsuk Park, associate professor of computer science, published the paper "DADA: Distribution-Aware Domain Adaptation of PLMs for Information Retrieval" in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
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Patrick Martin, assistant professor of computer science, published "A Prototype Platform for Live Human-Robot Choreography," in the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Movement and Computing.
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Three Richmond students explore career paths at a summer institute hosted by the University of Chicago and the Brookings Institution.
Six University of Richmond students have been offered Gilman scholarships to support their study abroad experiences.
Computer science professor Patrick Martin has received grant support for an upcoming performance highlighting his robotics research.
Mailing address:
Department of Computer Science
212 Jepson Hall
221 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173
Phone: (804) 289-8077
Fax: (804) 287-6444
Chair, Department of Computer Science: Dr. Doug Szajda
Academic Administrative coordinator: Kathy Rothert