FIU study guides, course by course
FIU is one of the largest universities in the country and the nation's biggest Hispanic-serving research university, split across the Modesto Maidique and Biscayne Bay campuses. The student body is heavily commuter and heavily employed — most students balance coursework against jobs and Miami traffic — so the high-enrollment core courses reward students who protect study time on a schedule and quietly punish everyone who plans to catch up later.
FIU uses Florida's Statewide Course Numbering System — a three-letter prefix plus four digits (COP 2210, MAC 2311) shared across the state's public institutions. A trailing L (BSC 1010L) is the separate lab, and watch the numbers: FIU's intro biology is BSC 1010 and its general chemistry is CHM 1045, one digit off from what some other Florida schools use.
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COP 2210 — Programming I
COP 2210 is FIU's first programming course, taught in Java — objects and classes, control flow, methods, arrays, strings, and file I/O. It's a 4-credit course with a required closed instructional lab, and it's the front door of the FIU computing majors, feeding directly into COP 3337.
COP 3337 — Programming II
COP 3337 is FIU's second programming course, deepening Java: inheritance, polymorphism, interfaces, exception handling, recursion, and an introduction to data structures. It's the bridge between writing programs that work and writing programs designed well, and it's a prerequisite for COP 3530 and CDA 3102.
COP 3530 — Data Structures
COP 3530 covers data organization and algorithm analysis — running time, abstract data types, linked lists, trees, sets, graphs, and sorting. It's the gateway to FIU's upper-division CS curriculum, and fittingly, the canonical data structures textbooks by Mark Allen Weiss were written by an FIU professor.
CDA 3102 — Computer Architecture
CDA 3102 covers the levels of organization in a computer: digital logic, machine and assembly language programming, and the design of memory, buses, the ALU, and the CPU, with virtual memory and I/O at the end. It's where FIU CS students find out what their Java has been running on all along.
COT 3100 — Discrete Structures
COT 3100 is the computer science department's discrete math course — logic, proof techniques, sets, functions, relations, counting, and graphs. FIU CS degree plans accept it interchangeably with MAD 2104, and one of the two is required before COP 3530 and CDA 3102.
Mathematics
MAD 2104 — Discrete Mathematics
MAD 2104 is the math department's discrete mathematics course — logic, sets, functions, matrices, Boolean algebra, and graph theory — and the alternative to COT 3100 in FIU's computing degree plans. It's also taken by IT and other tech-adjacent majors who need the discrete foundation without the full CS theory track.
MAC 1105 — College Algebra
MAC 1105 is FIU's college algebra course — functions, polynomials, rational expressions, exponentials, and logarithms — and one of the university's highest-enrollment gateway courses. FIU runs it through a redesigned lab-based model with software-driven homework and required hours in the Mastery Math Lab.
MAC 2311 — Calculus I
MAC 2311 is FIU's first calculus course — limits, derivatives, applications of differentiation, and the start of integration — required for engineering, computer science, and the physical sciences. It's a 4-credit, exam-weighted gateway course and a designated checkpoint in FIU's STEM pipeline.
MAC 2312 — Calculus II
MAC 2312 is FIU's second calculus course — integration techniques, applications of the integral, sequences and series, and parametric and polar topics. It continues the engineering and science core, and it carries the sequence's heaviest reputation.
Mathematics and Statistics
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Biological Sciences
BSC 1010 — General Biology I
BSC 1010 (with BSC 1010L) is FIU's first majors biology course, covering the molecular and genetic basis of life — biochemistry, cell structure, metabolism, and gene expression. It anchors FIU's biology major and its very large pre-health population, and note the numbering: FIU uses BSC 1010, not the BSC 2010 some other Florida universities list.
BSC 1011 — General Biology II
BSC 1011 (with BSC 1011L) is the second half of FIU's majors biology sequence — evolution, biodiversity across the kingdoms, plant and animal form and function, and ecology. Where BSC 1010 zooms into molecules, 1011 zooms out to organisms and systems.
Physics
Economics
ECO 2013 — Principles of Macroeconomics
ECO 2013 introduces macroeconomics — GDP, inflation, unemployment, aggregate demand and supply, and fiscal and monetary policy. It's core for FIU's large business school and a common social-science pick for other majors, delivered in large in-person and online sections.
ECO 2023 — Principles of Microeconomics
ECO 2023 introduces microeconomics — supply and demand, elasticity, consumer and producer behavior, market structures, and market failure. It pairs with ECO 2013 in FIU's business core and serves a wide slice of the university's social science enrollment.
Accounting
Psychology
English
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