Encouraging generic skills in science courses

Learning teamwork skills in university programming courses

University courses about computer programming usually seek to provide students not only with technical knowledge, but also with the skills required to work in real-life software projects. Nowadays, the development of software applications requires the coordinated efforts of the members of one or more teams. Therefore, it is important for software professionals to master the sort of skills that ...

Encouraging science reading beyond the curriculum.

Students in genetics and reproductive physiology, junior-/senior-level courses with enrollments averaging 76 and 41 students, respectively, were encouraged to read popular science books for extra credit. The objectives of the readings were to reinforce basic class concepts by forming ties to everyday life, and to expose students to a genre that can provide information to prepare them as citizen...

School of Computer Science Courses

Each Carnegie Mellon course number begins with a two-digit prefix which designates the department offering the course (76-xxx courses are offered by the Department of English, etc.). Although each department maintains its own course numbering practices, typically the first digit after the prefix indicates the class level: xx-1xx courses are freshmen-level, xx-2xx courses are sophomore level, et...

UniServe Science Reading Supplements for First Year Experience Discussion Forum: Generic Skills and Scholarly Inquiry in Science Teaching and Learning

Patterns as Topics in Computer Science Courses

I strongly believe that writing patterns is an excellent way to describe well-known, proven software engineering principles and programming concepts. I also believe that reading, discussing and applying patterns are great ways to learn about these elements, and that these efforts should begin in a student’s very first undergraduate computer science course – SC1. However, I do not believe that i...