Liberal Arts Computing Curricula:
Innovations, Challenges, and Opportunities
A pre-symposium event at SIGCSE 2020 organized by members of the SIGCSE Committee on Computing Education in Liberal Arts Colleges. This event will let us share and learn about curricular innovations, challenges, and opportunities particular to our liberal arts settings.
Event Information
Important Dates
- Friday January 10, 2020 - Submissions Due
- Friday January 24, 2020 - Notifications of acceptances, breakout topics and speaker invitations.
- Note: SIGCSE Early Registration ends January 29.
- Wednesday March 11, 2020, 1:30pm - 4:30pm - Pre-Symposium Event at SIGCSE
Tentative Event Agenda
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 1:30-1:45 | Overview of the event, introductions, and initial networking activity. |
| 1:45-2:15 | Presentations of innovative curricular models for computing education in the liberal arts (number and duration depending upon submissions). Curricular models presented will be selected from submissions (see below). |
| 2:15:-3:00 | Breakout session to discuss curricular design with report out. Foci for the breakout groups will mirror themes from the curricular models presented. |
| 3:00-3:30 | Break |
| 3:30-3:45 | Enumeration of challenges, opportunities, and possible organizational directions. |
| 3:45-4:30 | Breakout session on challenges, opportunities, and organizational direction with report out. Foci for groups will be derived from submissions (see below). |
| 4:30-5:00 | Business meeting. |
| Evening | Optional dinner groups. |
Organizers
- Grant Braught, Dickinson College
- Janet Davis, Whitman College
Program Committee
- Grant Braught, Dickinson College
- Douglas Baldwin, SUNY Geneseo
- Janet Davis, Whitman College
- Amanda Holland-Minkley, Washington & Jefferson College
- Henry Walker, Grinnell College
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