Connections
At Wheaton, the new curriculum features Connections, an exciting way to explore different areas of knowledge and different approaches to problems. All Wheaton students must take either two sets of two-course connections (a total of four courses), or one set of three connected courses. Courses are linked across any two of six academic areas: creative arts, humanities, history, natural sciences, social sciences, and math and computer science.
In our Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, connections to and with other disciplines has always been a natural and the Computer Science faculty are participating in an impressive suite of innovative connections. Check 'em out:
Computing and Texts
Connects 'Computing for Poets' with English's 'Anglo-Saxon Literature' and 'J.R.R. Tolkien'
Graphic Design and Web Programming
Connects our 'Web Programming, Graphics, and Design' with Arts' 'Graphic Design I'
Genes in Context
Connects: Computer Science's 'DNA' or 'Algorithms' or Biology's 'Genetics' or 'Cell Evolution' with Philosophy's 'Ethics'
Logic and Programming
Connects Philosophy's Logic with our 'Programming Fundamentals'
Computer Architecture
Connects 'Computer Organization and Assembly Language' with Physic's 'Electronic Circuits'
Computer science students help organize local town history
Students build a database of 5000+ slides (more)
Programming for the curious biologist
New text for beginning Perl programmers (more)
Interdisciplinary trio in genomics publish
Bio-Stats-CompSci faculty suggest evidence for convergent evolution (more)
Gousie and Milewski '07 highlight errors in digital maps
Dr. Mike Gousie and computer science major Sarah Milewski '07 publish their research on digital error visualization