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Jul 04, 2025
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Xavier University Catalog 2025-2026
Artificial Intelligence, B.A.
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Xavier’s Artificial Intelligence degree is housed in the Department of Computer Science. The program provides the fundamentals of computer science and artificial intelligence (with the underlying mathematics) while also focusing on discussions of the implications of this emerging technology on the future of humanity through robust engagement in electives from humanities, social sciences, and business.
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Requirements for the Artificial Intelligence Major
Major Requirements
48 credit hours 21 hours of Computer Sciences courses
3 hours of Data Science
- DSCI 350 - Computational Machine Learning
12 hours of Mathematics courses
12 hours of Approved Electives from:
TOTAL Minimum Hours Required for Degree: 120 Semester Hours
B.A. Artificial Intelligence
This block serves as a guideline for progress toward a degree. See your academic advisor. First Semester
- CSCI 170 Computer Science I*
- Hist Perspectives
- Second Language 1
- Composition/Rhetoric (ENGL 101/115)
- First Year Seminar (CORE 100)
- GOA 1 (CORE 101)
Total (15) Second Semester
- CSCI 180 Computer Science II
- Creative Perspectives
- Second Language 2
- PHIL 100
- THEO 111
- GOA 2 (CORE 102)
Total (15) First Semester
- CSCI 220 Data Structures & Algos**
- MATH 180 Integral Calculus
- CSCI 200 Socially Responsible Data Use***
- Lit. & Moral Imagination
- Second Language 3
Total (15) Second Semester
- CSCI 225 Data Engineering
- MATH 181 Differential Calculus
- MATH 156 or MATH 256 Statistics
- PHIL 200
- Theological Perspectives
Total (15) First Semester
- MATH 222 Applied Linear Algebra
- DSCI 350 Computational Machine Learning
- AI Elective 1
- Natural Sciences Lecture and Lab
- General Elective
Total (15) Second Semester
- CSCI 370 Artificial Intelligence
- AI Elective 2
- Scientific Perspectives Lecture and Lab
- Social Science Elective
- General Elective
Total (15) First Semester
- AI Elective 3
- Humanities Elective
- General Elective
- General Elective
- General Elective
Total (15) Second Semester
- CSCI 394 AI Capstone
- AI elective 4
- General Elective
- General Elective
- General Elective
- CORE 499
Total (15) Notes
- *Satisfies Mathematical Perspectives
- **Satisfies QR Flag
- ***Satisfies ERS Focus Elective
- Majors must maintain a 2.000 cumulative grade average in the courses listed above, and fulfill the senior comprehensive requirements.
- AI majors are not eligible for a BA in Computer Science or a minor in Computer Science but they may pursue a BS in Computer Science or a BS in Cybersecurity.
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