Academics
CS offers a no-prerequisites first course that satisfies the MAR/AQR graduation requirements, several subsequent courses for those interested in combining a few CS courses with another major, and a substantial CS major that satisfies national expectations and fits St. Olaf's liberal-arts college experience.
Contents
- Curricular goals
- Five objectives for St. Olaf's CS courses and major.
- Requirements for a CS major
- Listing of the required courses, with links to course descriptions.
- CS advising information
- The latest news about course planning.
- CS Placement
- The CS placement questionnaire is taken by entering St. Olaf students.
- Upcoming Courses
- Here's the scoop on next term's courses in CS.
- Courses
- All about the courses.
- More about academics
- Additional materials about academics and curriculum.
Coming events:
Len Wyatt, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft will visit on Monday, Dec 3.
Talk: Big Data: Helping Users to See the Light, 4:45pm in RNS 203 on 12/3
Informal Q&A about working at Microsoft, 3:15-4:30 in RNS 203 on 12/3
News
Maggie Wanek '15 received an NSF-funded scholarship to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Baltimore in October.
The CSinParallel project was awarded a $600,000 NSF grant to produce new teaching modules for adding parallel and distributed computing to undergraduate CS courses. The project () is led by Prof. Dick Brown at St. Olaf and two other professors at Macalester and Calvin Colleges.
Eleven CS students participated in summer research during 2012, including eight full-time researchers at St. Olaf.
"Thing3," a new 64-core computer was added to the CS program's parallel and distributed computing resources in June, designed and constructed by Jay Petersen '13, Michael Stone '13, and Maggie Wanek '15.
