The Department of Computer Science provides students with outstanding preparation both for immediate employment as computer professionals and for graduate study. Students use a broad spectrum of programming languages and machine architectures and are expected to construct creative solutions to challenging problems in a variety of contexts. The department's faculty engage in research, write monographs and textbooks, publish regularly in highly respected journals, and obtain grants from government and private sources.
Adjunct faculty are highly competent professionals in a variety of specialized technical fields.
The department takes an active interest in students' goals and provides extensive advising and guidance. No more than 6 credits of the minor may be used to meet the distribution requirement. With departmental permission, certain appropriate electives from other academic departments may be substituted. Intended for non-majors. Introduction to word processing, spreadsheets, electronic communications, and fundamental computer terminology.