berkeley-cs-courses

This page features links to several Berkeley EECS course webpages with publicly available resources (lectures, homeworks, projects, etc.), with the purpose of consolidating resources for non-Berkeley students (or non-EECS Berkeley students) to visit.

• Links are from the most recent semester available (Spring 2019 for most courses, at the time of writing). Many courses have webcasts that are unavailable to non-Berkeley students, but in some cases, previous semesters of courses have video archives that are publicly available on YouTube. These are linked, when possible.
• Furthermore, tbp.berkeley.edu and hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu both feature repositories of past exams for all of these courses, though many of them will post past exams on their websites themselves.
• At Berkeley, courses are labelled as either "lower division" or "upper division". Lower division courses typically cover a breadth of topics, whereas upper division courses dive deeper into specific areas.
• Berkeley is also unique in that undergraduates have the ability to start their own for-credit courses on any topic they choose. There are many such courses (called DeCals) under the Computer Science department that teach many different applied topics (e.g. Virtual Reality, Web Development). These are listed at the bottom of the page.
• Refer here for a complete listing of courses. The EECS instructional homepage essentially does the same thing as this site, but is significantly more clunky.

Determining what classes to take:

• The HKN courses guides give suggestions on the order in which to take courses. In the lower division, typically, students take CS 61A, then CS 61B, then CS 70, then CS 61C (though sometimes 61B/70 or 70/61C are taken concurrently).
• For reference: major requirements and sample study plans for students in CS/EECS

Feel free to reach out to [email protected] with any concerns (broken link, want another course listed, etc.)

Lower Division

At Berkeley, to declare the Computer Science major, students need to take three core courses to declare the major – CS 61A, CS 61B, and CS 70. These courses are also required for all EECS majors.

We also have several other lower-division courses, covering a wide variety of topics. Courses marked with an asterisk (*) are required to complete the CS/EECS majors.

Upper Division and Graduate

Most of these courses are undergraduate. Graduate courses are numbered CS 2xx (some courses are cross-listed as both).

DeCals

Berkeley's computer science curriculum provides a solid theoretical foundation for its students, and student-run courses through the DeCal (Democratizing Education at CAL) program allow students to build their practical skills in areas like web and mobile development and also can help prepare students for more advanced and mathematically abstract classes in a low-stress environment.