Students demonstrate their computing competence by performing exam tasks which are representative of work required in courses throughout the curriculum. Computing Skills Workshop has been offered for over a decade, and has been delivered with Carnegie Mellon Online since Summer 1996. CSW is also offered as a distance course to incoming students in the summer before the arrive on campus. Login to Computing Skills Workshop Online. It is geographically and chronologically the most broad of the three courses, introducing students to the ideas and artifacts of world cultures from Paleolithic cave paintings to the French Revolution and including Africa, India, China, Japan and the Ancient Americas.
Lectures focus on works of art in their cultural context.
Friday sessions focus on synthesis topics, such as mythology, which explore thematic comparisons across cultures. Carnegie Mellon Online is used to supplement the in-class sessions. For each lecture unit there are brief introductions, readings, time lines, maps, relevant URL's, images and electronically graded quizzes. For each synthesis unit, there are brief introductions, readings, and written assignments to be electronically submitted. The course is taught every Spring semester, and alternates with Modern Visual Culture.