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Computer Science

A minor in Computer Science at Converse will better position you in nearly every career path since computer science touches nearly every aspect of our lives. A foundation in computer science is invaluable to students in any major, from the arts or sciences to humanities and business. Build your technical skills and make technology work for you, no matter what your major is.

Degree Offered

Computer Science minor

Related Programs

  • BA/BS in Mathematics
  • BA/BS in Business Administration
  • Applied Computing Minor
  • Data Science Minor

About the Computer Science Minor

The Computer Science minor is a valuable addition to a wide variety of majors. As computers transform across disciplines, you can make yourself more valuable to employers by adding a foundation in computer science to your major expertise.

Converse’s hands-on, practice-oriented approach to computer science is designed to give you the skills you’ll need to stay current in the fast-changing world of technology and apply that technological knowledge to the particular context of your major field.

Converse’s small classes allow classes (and sometimes even whole courses) to be tailored to the interests and abilities of individual students. Our instruction strikes a balance between hands-on practice—how things are done today—and grasping the underlying reasons why things are done that way, which will continue to inform how things are done tomorrow in this fast-changing field.

Solving real-world problems is a consistent focus throughout the Computer Science minor curriculum, so our graduates arrive in the workplace with experience working on problems that extend beyond the classroom.

Computer Science at Converse offers motivated students rich opportunities for taking part in original research. These experiences give students an understanding of real-world computing challenges that classwork alone cannot match.

  • Computer-science minors Gretchen Marlow ‘18 and Alex Schlesener ‘18 built the first site on the World Wide Web focused on assisting American Sign Language students to find the meaning of an unfamiliar sign.
  • A series of students built a visualization tool for organic chemistry reactions that is currently used to teach Converse’s organic-chemistry sequence.
  • Haley Cromer ’20 worked on tools that use sound and kinesthetics to assist students who are blind or visually impaired, so they can program computer graphics.

Using computers to solve general problems takes programming.  Accordingly, the computer science minor sequence begins with two courses on programming and the principles that shape it.  The other prescribed course in the minor is on database design, which is essential to data science and to a great deal of business programming.

Beyond those three courses, you are free to choose three more electives from a wide variety of CSC courses, as well as discrete mathematics and statistics. The minor consists of 20 credit hours.

View the Computer Science Minor requirements.

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Computer science mixes well with a wide variety of fields–there are possibilities to match nearly any interest. Converse graduates who minored in computer science have gone on to graduate study in a wide variety of areas, including:

  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Operations research
  • Digital production arts
  • Software
  • Information technology
  • Banking and finance
  • Business

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