CMSC 201 Computer Science I for Non-CS Disciplines
Spring 2019

This spring, Dr. Susan Mitchell will teach a special section of CMSC 201 Computer Science I designed for social and biological sciences and humanities majors. The course will cover the same content and have the same rigor as all other sections of CMSC 201 and prepare students to continue on to CMSC 202 if they wish.  As with other sections, it fulfills any major’s requirement for CMSC 201. The key difference will be that the assignments and projects will emphasize topics applicable to many non-CS disciplines, such as statistical analysis, working with large data sets, and data visualization. The catalog description is:

An introduction to computer science through problem solving and computer programming. Programming techniques covered by this course include modularity, abstraction, top-down design, specifications documentation, debugging and testing. The core material for this course includes control structures, functions, lists, strings, abstract data types, file I/O, and recursion.

The course will include a lecture from 2:30pm to 3:45pm on Mondays and Wednesdays (Section 24-LEC) and a one-hour lab on either Tuesdays 11:30-12:20 (Section 19-DIS) or Wednesdays 4:00-4:50 (Section 21-DIS).

Permission from the instructor is required to register for this section. No prior programming experience is required. The only prerequisite is that students must have completed MATH 150, 151 or 152 with a C or better; OR have MATH test placement into MATH 151; OR have completed MATH 155 with a C or better.

For permission or questions, email Dr. Susan Mitchell at *protected email*

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ART 425 - Writing By and For Artists, Curators & Critics

“We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‘We, the people.'” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

More than 200 years after it was written, the U.S. Constitution remains the legal backbone of this country. First penned in 1787 (and later amended 27 times), the Constitution governs both federal and state level laws, and its original legal intent is often the topic of debate. 

When Colin Kaepernick expressed his 1st amendment right to freedom of expression and knelt to protest the social injustices facing African Americans in the U.S., it is all anyone could talk about. The debates flooded our news feeds and social media timelines. Was this disrespectful? Was this appropriate? But there was one thing most people could agree on – Kaepernick had the Constitutional right to peacefully protest in any way he deemed appropriate.

HIST 423 – Creating the Constitution explores the creation of the federal Constitution of 1787 and the Bill of Rights, and examines the many crises that the Constitution was designed to solve. Students in the course will also investigate the politics behind the constitutional convention and the contest between the two opposing political movements of that time: Federalists and Anti-Federalists.

HIST 423 is a fully online course and offers Social Science GEP credit. It is recommended but not required that students enrolling in this course will have taken HIST 101. 

Get to know the Instructor:

Terry Bouton is a distinguished author and associate professor of History at UMBC. He is also the 2012-2015 Presidential Teaching Professor as well as a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians(OAH). Professor Bouton has taught courses on the American Revolution, the Early National Period and the Atlantic Revolutions of the late-18th to mid-19th century. Professor Bouton won the 2008 Philip S. Klein Book Prize as well as earned an Honorable Mention for the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award for his first book titled: Taming Democracy: “The People,” the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution(Oxford, 2007). He is currently working on a new book titled: “Foreign Founders: How European Financiers Helped Write the Constitution” which explores how the nation’s pillar has been influenced by foreign investors.