Background and Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate any association between pre-enrollment curricula and clinical performance in physical therapy professional schools. Specifically, does the type of undergraduate institution (as defined by Carnegie classification type) influence performance on components of the Physical Therapist Clinical Performance Instrument? Methods: The stu...

We describe aspects of computational thinking as covered in the course Codes and Ciphers (CSC 233). 1 Cryptology and Computational Thinking Cryptology consists of cryptography and cryptanalysis, or, in other words, the making and the breaking of ciphers. History suggests that one cannot successfully do one without the other: too many ciphers were designed by enthusiasts without any knowledge of...

This paper describes the use of robots within an interdisciplinary course at a liberal arts college. The course, entitled “The Nature of Intelligence” covered the major paradigms of Artificial Intelligence and their application to robotics, including contemporary objections to those paradigms. The project required students to implement their own reactive robots, and to put those robots into an ...

This is the first time, in a formal structured way, I've been asked to speak before a group of academicians on this set of issues. It is a great honor to be invited to speak on behalf of one of the two “culture’ mentioned in the commentary by C.P. Snow (1905–1980) [1]. It is also a great challenge to be so called upon to speak for an entire “culture.” Of necessity, my comments were created from...

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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...

IT WAS THE SUMMER OF 1970. Carol and I had spent four years at Grinnell College, located in the somnolent farming community of Grinnell, Iowa. Now, newly married, we drove westward, where we would enter the graduate program in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. How would our liberal arts education serve us in the Ph.D. program of one of the world’s great research universities?...

39 he quantity of printer’s ink sacrificed daily in the name of information technology and the new economy makes it difficult to separate fact from euphoria. The forceful reassertion of the business cycle and our current national trauma1 provide an appropriate opportunity for careful reflection about IT and about the future of IT in higher education. The measurable indicators — such as producti...

In recent years, the notion that computers and robots will attain superhuman levels of intelligence in the next few decades, ushering in a new “posthuman” era in evolutionary history, has gained widespread attention among technology enthusiasts, thanks in part to books such as Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near. This paper describes an introductory-level AI course designed to examine this i...

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 ...