ASU study guides, course by course
ASU is one of the largest universities in the country, and its intro courses run at enormous scale — hundreds of students per lecture on campus and thousands more through ASU Online's 7.5-week Session A/B format. Math placement runs through ALEKS, several core math courses are taught adaptively through it, and big gateway courses lean on weekly online homework and proctored exams, so steady weekly output matters more than brilliance.
ASU courses use a subject prefix plus a three-digit number with a space — CSE 110, MAT 117, PSY 101. The same codes apply across campus immersion and ASU Online, though online sections often run in compressed 7.5-week sessions instead of the 15-week semester.
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CSE 110 — Principles of Programming
CSE 110 is ASU's first programming course, teaching problem solving and structured programming in Java — variables, control flow, methods, arrays, and intro object-oriented concepts. It's the gateway for CS, software engineering, and informatics majors, and one of the most-taken courses on ASU Online.
CSE 205 — Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures
CSE 205 follows CSE 110, deepening Java with object-oriented design — inheritance, polymorphism, interfaces — plus core data structures like lists, stacks, queues, and recursion. It's the course that determines whether students continue smoothly into the CS major's core.
CSE 230 — Computer Organization and Assembly Language Programming
CSE 230 takes ASU CS majors below the high-level language for the first time — number representation, MIPS assembly programming, how the processor actually executes instructions, and the basics of datapath and pipelining. It's a core requirement that shows students what their Java from CSE 110 and 205 compiles down to.
CSE 240 — Introduction to Programming Languages
CSE 240 surveys programming-language paradigms after the Java sequence — C and C++ for imperative programming with pointers and manual memory, Scheme for functional programming, and Prolog for logic programming. It's a core CS requirement designed to break students out of the one-language thinking CSE 110 and 205 built.
Mathematics
MAT 117 — College Algebra
MAT 117 is ASU's college algebra course — functions, linear and quadratic equations, polynomials, exponentials, and logarithms — and a prerequisite gate for brief calculus, statistics, and many majors. It's taught through the ALEKS adaptive learning system, which most students first meet during math placement.
MAT 210 — Brief Calculus
MAT 210 is ASU's applied calculus course for business and non-engineering majors — derivatives, optimization, and basic integration with business applications, minus the trigonometry of the full calculus sequence. W. P. Carey business majors take it in huge numbers.
MAT 243 — Discrete Mathematical Structures
MAT 243 covers logic, proof techniques, set theory, functions and relations, induction, and combinatorics — the mathematical foundation for computer science. It's required for ASU CS majors and is most students' first encounter with writing proofs.
MAT 142 — College Mathematics
MAT 142 is ASU's terminal math course for majors that don't require algebra-track courses like MAT 117 — applied topics including probability, statistics, personal finance, and geometry. Like ASU's other intro math courses it runs through the ALEKS adaptive system, on campus and in 7.5-week online sessions.
MAT 265 — Calculus for Engineers I
MAT 265 is the first course in ASU's calculus sequence for engineering majors — limits, derivatives, applications of differentiation, and an introduction to integrals — covering Calculus I territory in three credits instead of four. Every Fulton Schools engineering student passes through it.
MAT 266 — Calculus for Engineers II
MAT 266 continues ASU's engineering calculus sequence with integration techniques, applications of integrals, and infinite series, including Taylor series. Most engineering students rank it as the harder half of the first-year sequence, and it feeds directly into MAT 267 and the engineering core.
MAT 267 — Calculus for Engineers III
MAT 267 closes ASU's engineering calculus sequence with multivariable calculus — vectors and 3D geometry, partial derivatives, multiple integrals, and an introduction to vector calculus. It's the math foundation for statics, dynamics, electromagnetics, and most of the engineering core that follows.
English
ENG 101 — First-Year Composition
ENG 101 is the first half of ASU's required first-year composition sequence, focused on rhetorical awareness, the writing process, and composing for different audiences through a series of essays and a portfolio of revised work. Nearly every ASU and ASU Online student takes it.
ENG 102 — First-Year Composition
ENG 102 completes ASU's first-year composition requirement, shifting to research-based argument: finding and evaluating sources, building an extended researched essay, and documenting it properly. It's the course where most students write their first real college research paper.
Psychology
Biology
BIO 181 — General Biology I
BIO 181 is the first majors-level biology course at ASU, covering cell biology, biochemistry basics, genetics, and molecular biology with a required lab. It's the gateway for biology, biomedical, and pre-health students, and a course where intro-level expectations meet real scientific depth.
BIO 182 — General Biology II
BIO 182 is the second half of ASU's majors biology sequence, shifting from BIO 181's cells and molecules to evolution, biodiversity, plant and animal structure and function, and ecology, with a required lab. Biology and pre-health tracks take it immediately after 181.
MIC 205 — Microbiology
MIC 205 is ASU's general microbiology course — microbial cell structure, metabolism, microbial genetics, immunology, and infectious disease — required for nursing and many pre-health paths, usually taken with the separate MIC 206 lab. It runs steadily on campus and through ASU Online.
Chemistry
CHM 113 — General Chemistry I
CHM 113 is ASU's first general chemistry course with lab, covering atomic structure, stoichiometry, bonding, thermochemistry, and gases. It serves biology, engineering, and pre-health majors in huge numbers and carries a classic gateway-course reputation.
CHM 114 — General Chemistry for Engineers
CHM 114 packs general chemistry for engineering majors into a single four-credit course with lab — atomic structure, stoichiometry, bonding, thermochemistry, gases, and selected later topics. For most Fulton engineering students it's the only chemistry course they'll ever take, which is exactly why it moves so fast.
Economics
ECN 211 — Macroeconomic Principles
ECN 211 introduces macroeconomics — GDP, inflation, unemployment, fiscal and monetary policy, and the aggregate supply and demand framework. It's required for W. P. Carey business majors and a major gen-ed pick, running at large scale on campus and online.
ECN 212 — Microeconomic Principles
ECN 212 covers microeconomics — supply and demand, elasticity, consumer choice, production costs, and market structures from perfect competition to monopoly. Like its macro sibling, it's a W. P. Carey requirement and popular gen-ed with huge enrollment.
Statistics
Physics
Information Systems
Engineering
Communication
Sociology
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