Development of a multifacetted undergraduate program in Computer and Information Science

Abstract

Computer and Information Science Departments are usually organized, as was the one at The Ohio State University, by combining already existing courses in computer programming and applications from other departments into one department and adding a few extra courses.This paper is a report concerning how this was done at Ohio State and how the Department has developed since. Suggestions are also included for the organization of new departments at other schools.The report has been arranged in four main sections: a description of the development of the department at Ohio State, a unifying philosophy of the field, a description of the Ohio State undergraduate curriculum in Computer and Information Science, and suggestions for new curricula at other schools.

Profile of a Computer and Information Science B.S. graduate

“…The purpose of the survey was threefold: (i) To determine what positions our majors are filling in industry; (2) To determine how effective the different undergraduate curriculums are in preparing our B.S. degree graduates for the Job market; and (3) To obtain an evaluation of these programs by the graduates.…”

Computing Curricula: The History And Current Status Of 4 Year Computing Programs

“…would expect of such a hybrid: psychology, business, accounting, digital logic, systems programming, linguistics, and indexing, grouping and searching of information. 11 Like other early CS programs, this hybrid was formed out of the mathematics and electrical engineering departments, with graduate offerings preceding undergraduate ones. A glance at the current Ohio State catalog shows that CS has remained in the engineering college, while IS has migrated to business.…”