The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science provides a curriculum in mathematics and computer science as a cultural study for all liberal arts students, as a basic tool for the scientist, and as a preparation for graduate study and for teaching.

Programs’ Student Learning Objectives:

• Correctly analyze problems for possible computer solutions; design and implement efficient solutions.
• Understand how core data structures work; implement and apply them to solve problems.
• Know how machine instructions are stored and executed; program at the machine/assembly language level.
• (CS) Understand the concept and design of computer architecture components such as adders, ALU, memory, cache, control unit, data path, CPU.
• (CS) Understand the core network protocols and be able to design/implement programs that utilize them.
• (CS) Understand the components of an operating system such as resource scheduling, memory management, process management, security.
• (IS) Analyze/understand the informational needs of an organization and to provide a high-level design of an information system.
• Understand professional ethics and the impact of computers on society.
• Be able to design a large-scale software system.
• Be able to communicate and work effectively in a team environment.
• Be able to design appropriate test data for a given software solution/application.
• (Overall) Be able to program in at least two high-level languages