Breaking down CS courses for freshmen

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I'm a student putting together a slide geared towards freshmen level students who are trying to understand what the importance of various classes in the CS curriculum are. Would it be safe to say that this list is fairly accurate?

Data structures: how to store stuff in programs
Discrete math: how to think logically
Bits & bytes: how to ‘speak’ the machine’s language
Advanced data structures: how to store stuff in more ways
Algorithms: how to compute things efficiently
Operating systems: how to do manage different processes/threads

Thanks!

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