Q: I am also curious about this… How significant is the difference between the workload of a single degree vs dd? What are the major differences between the cs dd at laurier and the cs dd at laurier/uwl?
A: Major differences between the two are that the BCS/BBA DD at WLU won't have any of the Math/CS courses at UW which I assume would be slightly more rigorous at UW and the Co-op program at WLU is more limited since, as far as I know, the co-op employers at WLU are all Canadian based companies while UW has international opportunities.
The thing about the DD program is that you're juggling two very sort of different fields of knowledge and having to travel to and fro two campuses, if you are in the joint program. What I am trying to say is, the way you learn CS/Math is more practical in the sense that, if you learn a new concept, you can just write a program that applies this concept and it will always work, assuming your code is correct. So in CS/Math, you can put the knowledge into practice immediately and see results and how it works, whereas in BBA, they're just spoon feeding you with shovels full of theory, terms, and definitions and its a very theoretical approach compared to CS/Math.
So CS/Math are objective and absolute and are more about the right or wrong answers since it either doesn't work or works, there isn't really an in between, especially in the industry since "it works most of the time" really just means it doesn't work and will need to be fixed. And BBA is more subjective and theoretical since it doesn't always work in practice.
Let me know in the comments if you need me to clarify anything or have any additional questions related to the double degree programs.
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BCS/BBA at WLU take the same courses that a BCS/BBA at UW would which means that they both take the necessary UW courses needed for a UW BCS degree. The only difference between being WLU-sided and UW-sided is your home school, where you live in first year, and which school you apply through for co-op.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what you mean by "BCS/BBA at WLU won't have any of the Math/CS courses at UW" since you take CS courses at UW half the time. As a DD you have very few electives compared the standard course progression of a BCS student due to having to take business courses at Laurier. You take 52 courses in DD which is more than a standard single degree program in order to accompany the second degree.
What I meant by "BCS/BBA at WLU won't have any of the Math/CS courses at UW" was WLU has their own BBA/BCS program that isn't joint with UW. So, this program: http://legacy.wlu.ca/calendars/program.php?cal=1&d=952&p=1914&s=440&y=49
DeleteI just want to know about the wlu cs. Like just the BSc CS at wlu. I'm studying in a smaller Canadian university and I'm hoping that WLU's co-op would be better than here at least.Like is the program at WLU really hard? And what % do people score on an average. And like what's the class size in wlu?
ReplyDeleteI can't really comment on how CS is like at WLU, hopefully someone visiting can answer that. But based on my roommates comments about class sizes at WLU, they're fairly small, it reminds him of high school.
DeleteIn regards to co-op, it won't be as large of a spread as UW since WLU's co-op program is limited to within Canada so it won't have as many listings as you would see at UW.