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Department Chair: Dr. Doug Riley

Welcome to the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. The Department's enthusiastic faculty and well-equipped facilities offer an environment that promotes the growth of students with diverse interests and goals. We offer several courses which, as part of the college's Foundations curriculum for general education, help students in honing their skills in quantitative and logical reasoning, and in learning to apply those skills in their other coursework and future endeavors. But the department also features a rich set of offerings for intermediate and advanced work in these important disciplines. Students will find research, teaching, and internship opportunities, as well as solid preparation for graduate and professional schools and a wide range of exciting careers.

The department is housed in the Olin building, where students have access to two computer labs, and all classrooms are outfitted with at least one computer and projector. The building also boasts two recently created computer classrooms where each student has access to both traditional desk space and a new flat-panel PC. The rooms have been thoughtfully laid out in a U-shaped configuration in order to facilitate the kinds of interaction that are so important to effective teaching and learning—between teacher and student, between theory and application, and among peers. When help is needed, students may find it within easy reach in the offices of a talented and welcoming faculty or in the new Quantitative Reasoning Center in Olin 103.

The department offers a major and minor in computer science and a major and minor in mathematics. Students interested in both disciplines may pursue an interdisciplinary computer science-mathematics major.

For more information, including a course listing, please visit the Disciplinary Major/Minor section of the most recent issue of the Birmingham-Southern College Catalog.

To contact the BSC Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, please write or email:

Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
Birmingham-Southern College
900 Arkadelphia Road / Box 549032
Birmingham, Alabama 35254-9021
driley@bsc.edu