Updated June 29th, 2026
CSE-190 is a topics of special interest in Computer Science and Engineering course typically offered every quarter. Topics may vary from quarter to quarter.
- Prerequisites: Vary per course/per instructor. Department approval required. Select appropriate academic year below for details.
- Units: 4
- Grading: Must be taken for a letter grade
- Policy:
- CSE-190 may be repeated for credit a maximum of 3 times (maximum of 12 units; assuming courses taken for a different topic)
- A maximum of one CSE-190 may be booked/enrolled/waitlisted per quarter
- Per Academic Regulation 500(F)(3), "a student may receive a maximum of one W per course." Please keep this in mind when adding or dropping CSE-190 Topics courses.
NOTE: As of Fall 2023, all CSE-190 courses will be labeled with a corresponding "Tag(s)" (Systems, Theory/Abstraction, and/or Applications of Computing). Students will need to reach out to the CSE advisors via the VAC to add their CSE-190 course to the correct tag.
- CSE-190 offerings before Fall 2023 are untagged but may be used as an Open CSE Elective for Computer Science majors who have changed to the FA23 CSE-BS-002 (CS26) curriculum
For section-specific course information, please select the academic year below:
AY 2025-2026 (for historical reference only)
AY 2024-2025 (for historical reference only)
AY 2023-2024 (for historical reference only)
AY 2022-2023 (for historical reference only)
AY 2021-2022 (for historical reference only)
AY 2020-2021 (for historical reference only)
AY 2019-2020 (for historical reference only)
AY 2018-2019 (for historical reference only)
AY 2017-2018 (for historical reference only)
AY 2016-2017 (for historical reference only)
Prior to AY 2015-2016 (for historical reference only)