In September 2020, the Dean’s Office of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts launched a faculty Computing Education Task Force (CETF) charged with imagining a program that would enable all LSA students to leverage computing within a digital world for the good of society and science. This group worked for a year to […]
Release of the LSA Computing Education Task Force Final Report Read More »
The co-chair of the computing education task force, Mark Guzdial, wrote a blog post about the history of computer science. The idea that every undergraduate on campus should take a course in computing dates back to 1961, long before Silicon Valley and even before there was a job of being a software developer. He argues
The history of the idea of everyone learning about computing Read More »
Catch up on the recent work of the Computing Education Task Force and the three themes of computing in LS&A at the University of Michigan. Click here to read.
What Liberal Arts and Sciences Students Need to Know About Computing Read More »
Professor Mark Guzdial (co-chair of the Computing Education Task Force) shares that universities should support diversity in CS thoughts and goals to have students from diverse backgrounds in computing. Click here to read.
Promote diversity by teaching to many goals for computing Read More »
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