An honors computer science seminar for undergraduate non-majors

Reviewer: John R. Ray

The “Honors Computer Science Seminar for Undergraduate Non-majors” has been offered at UCLA for the past six years as part of the Honors Collegium. The Honors Collegium offers a series of seminar classes designed to give honor students an opportunity to interact with distinguished faculty from throughout the u niversity. While the rationale for this course is to help students appreciate some of the intellectual concerns underlying computer science, it has a more practical purpose. Providing knowledge for persons who are not computing majors but who will, in all probability, make decisions related to computing and computing policies is a major goal. The ten-week course covers a wide range of topics (from computers and their context to computerization in the long range) and has been well received, according to student evaluations.