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An interdisciplinary undergraduate science informatics degree in a liberal arts context

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Dorothy Deremer,

Katherine G. HerbertAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '06: Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 179 - 183

https://doi.org/10.1145/1121341.1121398

Published: 03 March 2006 Publication History

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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.

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SIGCSE '06: Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

March 2006

612 pages

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DOI:10.1145/1121341

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