An interdisciplinary undergraduate science informatics degree in a liberal arts context
Deremer D.; Herbert K.G.
2007
Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
6
10.1145/1121341.1121398
In this paper, we describe a new interdisciplinary B.S. degree in Science Informatics at Montclair State University, a multipurpose public institution that includes a substantial General Education component. Beginning in the freshmen year, the Science Informatics curriculum contains 16 semester hours of interdisciplinary science informatics courses including a freshmen experience, internships, a research component, ethics, and a concentration currently in bioinformatics, cheminformatics, or computer science as well as core science and mathematics courses. Copyright 2006 ACM.
Bioinformatics; Cheminformatics; Curriculum development; Interdisciplinary science curriculum; Science informatics
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