Many of today's high tech companies are using Co-op as an effective human resources strategy. In the short term, Co-op offers temporary skilled enthusiastic employees to contribute to the success of the organization's goals. For the benefit of long term planning, Co-op offers the opportunity to evaluate and recruit high quality graduates from the computing science program in future positions. In addition to the general Computing Science degree program, many students pursue specialist programs in Software Engineering or Multimedia. Other students are drawn to the Information Systems joint major in computing science and business.
Students learn both conceptual skills and programming languages.
For more information on the Computing Science course curriculum, please refer to the Computing Science Department's Web site.