Innovations and Opportunities
in Liberal Arts Computing Education
An affiliated event at SIGCSE 2026 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 Agenda
- Wednesday, February 18th, 2026, 1:00am - 5:00pm
- Cervantes Convention Center at the America’s Center Complex in St. Louis, Missouri.
- Location TBD
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 1:00-2:00 | Presentation Session A |
| Welcome and Introduction | |
| Report from the Essential Computing Concepts Working Group | |
| Latest Developments with Facilitated Curriculum Design Support | |
| 2:00-2:15 | Break |
| 2:15-3:45 | Presentation Session B |
| Talk 1: Computer Graphics Wizard Academy: Narrative-Driven and Shader-First Graphics Education for Liberal Arts - Sing Chun LEE, singchun.lee@bucknell.edu, Bucknell University | |
| Talk 2: Discussion-Based Assessment of Student Learning in CS1 - Adam Blank, blank@caltech.edu, Caltech; Zach Dodds, dodds@hmc.edu, Harvey Mudd College; Julie Medero, jmedero@hmc.edu, Harvey Mudd College; Ben Wiedermann, bwiedermann@hmc.edu, Harvey Mudd College | |
| Mini Talks: Additional mini presentations will be given on topics such as Data for Good, AI as a General Education Skill, etc. | |
| Breakout Discussions | |
| 3:45-4:15 | Break |
| 4:15-6:00 | Unconference on Liberal Arts CS Education |
| Selection of Unconference Sessions | |
| 4:30-5:00 | Unconference Sessions |
| Debrief and Open Discussion |
Additional details on specific sessions are given below.
Event organizers will collect links to content created in each session and add them to the Resulting materials page.
Session Details
Unconference on Liberal Arts CS Education (4:15 PM - 6:00 PM)
During this unconference session, participants will be invited to join a group for structured discussion or collaborative work designed to lead to a particular outcome or product. This might include structured notes on a topic, a collection of resources, a position statement, or plans for an on-going working group.
A preliminary list of proposed unconference sessions will be available for review prior to the event. Additions to this list will be accepted up until the time of the event and will also be solicited at the end of the morning session. Information on submitting unconference session suggestions is available in our Call for Submissions or can be sent via email to Jakob Barnard (Jakob.Barnard@uj.edu)
Selection of Unconference Sessions (4:15 PM - 4:30 PM)
Unconference session sponsors will briefly present their proposed topic including the desired outcomes or products from their session and plans for organizing the discussion or collaborative work. Participants will indicate interest in various sessions and a set will be selected to proceed for the rest of the afternoon. Participants will select groups to join.
Unconference Sessions (4:30 PM - 5:45 PM)
Selected sessions will gather and session leaders will follow their provided plan for the allotted time. An announcement will be made encouraging groups to take a break at the midpoint of the session, but individual sessions will have flexibility to divide up this time in the manner that best suits their topic and intended collaboration.
Event organizers will collect links to content created in each session and add them to the event website.
Debrief and Open Discussion (5:45 PM - 6:00 PM)
Session leaders will briefly share the results of their session and plans, if any, for future collaboration. Participants will have the opportunity for informal discussion across groups. Additional suggestions of Committee priorities for the coming year will be collected.
Unless otherwise noted on an individual resource, all materials in this repository are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License