Alternate approaches for Core - bsiever/WUSTL-CSE-Curriculum GitHub Wiki
Background
The curriculum review and a possible redesign is a great opportunity for us to make our curriculum more inclusive and/or highlight/market the things we already do in that regard!
What are our numbers?
Can we find out some statistics on who is pursuing CS minors/majors broken down by gender/ethnicity?
Berkley and Standford Examples
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Berkeley added introductory data science and computer science courses specifically aimed at students with no prior programming experience.
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In 2011, De Nero said, the university also launched a computer science “kick start” program, bringing 30 female, first-year students to campus a week before classes started for an “intensive introduction to computer science.”
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In addition, the school redesigned its mandatory but fast-paced introductory course for computer science and electrical engineering majors to make it more accessible to students with little or no programming experience, including the creation this year of different sections for different experience levels, DeNero said.
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At Stanford, the university also created different introductory computer science courses for students with different levels of computing experience, according to computer science professor and former Google research scientist Mehran Sahami. Word of the changes got around.
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To send a message that computing skills have applications beyond traditional tech jobs, and to broaden students’ career opportunities, Stanford created 10 study tracks for computer science majors, with choices including computational biology, he said.
What do we do already?
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- cse217a: Intro to Data Science
- HCI minor
- Bioinformatics minor
What could we improve/add/do better?
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