An Honors Computer Science Seminar For Undergraduate Non-Majors DAVID G. KAY DEPARTMENT OFINFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITYOFCalifOrnia IRVINE,CALIFORNIA92717 (714) 856-5072 kay@ics.uci.edu Abstract: We describe a course offered for six years as part of the Honors Collegium at UCLA. This small seminar introduced non-major honors students to concepts and in a field to an area of the stucurrent issues of computer science, culminating study project applying dent s interest. computing suits; the capabilities y foundation expertise. and limitations of computer technolog- both today and in the future. for making informed Students will develop the decisions relating to comfurther technical puting and the framework for developing The rationale behind this grandiose agenda is partly to help students appreciate some of the intellectual issues th~at underlie computer science. But there is also a more practical purpose: The students in this course do not plan to become computing professionals, but as university students they will probably manage computing professionals, make purchasing and other management decisions about computing, and influence public policy about computing. We want them to develop a framework sions in an informed for making these decibackgrounds. way, given the constraints of a single Background: The UCLA Honors Collegium offers
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