Computer Science + History

Bachelor of Science

Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

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The Bachelor of Science in Computer Science + History (CS+HST) combines two distinct fields into one single program. Students in the program will be trained, in parallel, in history and historical methods and in computer science and software development. That means that they will graduate with the hard technical skills of a computer scientist and the writing, research, and presentation skills of a historian, making CS+HST graduates highly valuable in any context. Students can use these skills to be better, more socially-aware programmers and better, more technologically-aware historians. They can follow the traditional path of history majors (lawyer, teacher, historian, archivist, librarian, writer, politician, rock star), go into software engineering, or combine the two through software development, digitization, digital archives, and historic preservation. 
 

Degree Requirements
 

The program prepares students to become:

  • Software developers with knowledge of both the past and social science research methods.
  • Graduates with expertise in historical methods who can leverage and develop technology-based solutions to social science questions.
Faculty
Ljubomir Perkovic
Faculty, Full Time
School of Computing
Professor
Amber Settle
Faculty, Full Time
School of Computing
Professor
Juan Mora-Torres
Faculty
History
Associate Professor
Amy Tyson
Faculty
History
Associate Professor; Director, Professional History Internships
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The Department of History houses more than 30 teacher/scholars whose specialities range from Africa to South America and from military history to the history of human rights. Learn, apprenticeship style, with leaders in the field.
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