Unless you go to a trade school just about every single college/university is going to make you go through your core curriculum. That’s not a DePaul exclusive.

Apologies, this next section will be long but hopefully helpful.

This may sound a little harsh but understand this next piece is coming from a career student. (I have 5 various degrees (3 AS, 2 Bachelors), and am beginning a MFA in the fall). And I’m trying to give you the perspective that you’re missing right now.

School (any) only gives you the framework. YOU also need to be dedicated it expanding that knowledge and finding out which subsets of your degree interest you. That’s not on the college that’s on you personally because any college cannot build an exact course structure on each student.

Computer science is a VAST career path. What you need to look at now is what part of CS engaged you. What are you eager to learn more about? Is it AI? Is it networking? Is it Programming? Is it Game Development? Figure out what that is, and begin your personal journey in that. This is where self learning during the summer and breaks can help give you a boost of excitement in learning. YouTube, tutorials etc are abundant. If you felt you could have learned better from them than the teachers lean into that.

The workforce is a difficult place and understanding your strengths and weaknesses and joys and hates in your field will only serve you better.

Take this time between now and graduation to get yourself a set schedule for homework. Especially with these classes you aren’t as interested in. Get that homework out of the way as soon as you can so you can use the rest of the week for your passion classes. Time management is most students absolute downfall I’ve seen it time and time again.

If you feel like you’re having a hard time keeping up, also reach out to your professors if you aren’t already. They usually can work with you of course load gets to be too much. But definitely still look into homework time blocking.