This paper presents a novel and creative approach to teaching a Senior Project course in Computer Science in a way that allows women to educate themselves about health, politics, and other social and well-being issues while at the same time fulfilling the computational, mathematical, and scientific requirements of the course. The Senior Project is a capstone project where students integrate their scientific as well as their software design and implementation knowledge to a real-world problem. As our institution is a minority serving one, we have strived to attract female students to the science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) fields through different means including active recruitment, mentorship programs, scholarships, and internships, just to name few. Our latest effort, reported in this paper, is to allow female students to select an area of great impact on their health and/or social well-being, and to investigate it in depth through their senior projects. The approach is called Collaborative Computer Science Women-Centric Senior Projects (CCS-WC-SP). Our goal is to eventually incorporate input from all major departments and schools of the university (University of Texas and Texas Southmost College (UTB/TSC)), thus allowing women in particular to design and implement early in their careers projects that could involve not only computational aspects but also health, medicine, psychology, sports, and politics, among many other subjects.
PhD, Assistant Prof. Dr. Semire Uzun Göçmen. All involved ideas and steps were originally produced by her creative mind and self problem solving skills gained by her experiences during the life. This method is based on increasing consciousness and awareness of smokers and attract their attention to the importance of health issue and selfconfidence by giving enough information about cigarette, hazardous content, action mechanisms, helping them to be aware to gain new hobbies, occupations, friends and healthy foods so that establishing problem solving skills and learning to be happy by themselves, letting them to discover their inside by selfthinking and answering their questions by themselves. We maintained mostly peer to peer discussion sessions and selten group therapies. Peer to peer sessions were successful and mostly one or two 20-40 minutes discussion sessions were enough to create consciousness, awaresess and self-confidence and for decision making to quit cigarette smoking by themselves without using any medicine, nicotin bands or other supplements. It is possible to stop smoking or not to start at all by raising consciousness, awareness and self-confidence. For this purpose, we have included a fourhour course in the Biophysics Curriculum of Mustafa Kemal University Medicine and Dentistry Faculties and Health Sciences School Divisions which include information on the molecular effects of smoking and smoking quitting by this problem solving approach. In this presentation, we will present this effective and successful strategy we developed and used voluntarily in cigarette smoking cessation.
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