Computer Science and the Liberal Arts Student

Perspectives on Faith, the Liberal Arts, and Computer Science

A Christian liberal arts education seeks to explore several fundamental questions: What does it mean to be human? For what purpose did God create us? How do we develop to our full human potential? What sets us free, liberates us, to be all that God intends us to be? In Genesis, we learn that to be human is to be created in the image of God; to bear the image of God. To be human is to rule over ...

A New Approach To Computer Science in the Liberal Arts

In the following we make the case for a new course for introducing computer science in the liberal arts classroom. The course is related to breadthfirst computer science, but is aimed at developing a broad course suitable for non-majors to gain a comprehensive overview of computer science beyond its algorithmic and mathematic fundamentals. One of the aims of the libreral arts philosphy is to pr...

Robots Can Wear Multiple Hats in the Computer Science Curriculum at Liberal Arts Colleges

Faculty at liberal arts colleges are often challenged to offer a quality education to their students, complete with opportunities for undergraduate research. To guard against a curriculum that is too theoretical, students want to see applications of their course work and tangible results of their efforts. Like all computer science educators, we want to attract students to our discipline. The us...

Liberal Arts and Medicine The Liberal Arts and Medicine: How the Liberal Arts Tradition Can Impact Health Care Reform

The liberal arts connection.

Occupational therapists need to be critical of who teaches, what is taught, how it is taught, how it is applied, and to whom it is taught in the entire education program of prospective occupational therapists. Further, I recommend that occupational therapy educators on campus take the lead in initiating meetings and discussions that facilitate a functional conjoining of occupational therapy pra...