{"id":1689,"date":"2017-09-28T09:06:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T14:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/mscs\/?page_id=1689"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:27:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:27:59","slug":"about-mscs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/mscs\/about-mscs\/","title":{"rendered":"About MSCS"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mission Statement of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science<\/h5>\n

The St. Olaf MSCS Department fosters an inclusive community of students and faculty centered around mathematics, statistics, and computer science; their characteristic modes of thought, reasoning, and problem solving; their beauty, power, and enjoyment; and their importance among the liberal arts.<\/p>\n

To this end, we strive:<\/em>
\n1.\u00a0 to cultivate a \u201cbig tent\u201d philosophy, welcoming students with a broad range of interests, backgrounds, experiences, and aspirations;
\n2.\u00a0 to develop and support leadership and innovation in teaching, learning, and scholarship;
\n3.\u00a0 to build forward-looking interactions among our distinct but connected disciplines;
\n4.\u00a0 to provide rigorous and stimulating academic and intellectual experiences for students and faculty; and
\n5.\u00a0 to engage with larger academic and intellectual communities.
\nApproved by MSCS on May 22, 2013<\/p>\n

Mission Statement of the St. Olaf Mathematics Program<\/h5>\n
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To foster a community of students and faculty that promotes the beauty, power, and enjoyment of mathematical thought, and its importance among the liberal arts.<\/p>\n

To this end, we strive:<\/em>
\n1.\u00a0 to provide substantial and stimulating mathematical experiences for students and faculty;
\n2.\u00a0 to include a broad range of students\u2013not just a small elite\u2013in our community;
\n3.\u00a0 to contribute to and learn from the larger mathematical community through scholarship and other public professional activities;
\n4.\u00a0 to support innovation in teaching, learning, and scholarship;
\n5.\u00a0 to extend our mathematical horizons beyond the classroom and campus;
\n6.\u00a0 to enjoy and celebrate the doing and learning of mathematics.<\/p>\n

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Mission Statement of the St. Olaf Computer Science Program<\/h5>\n
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Computer Science at St. Olaf<\/p>\n

St. Olaf\u2019s Computer Science\u00a0curriculum<\/a>\u00a0offers a\u00a0breadth-first introduction<\/a>\u00a0to CS that makes the\u00a0fundamental principles<\/a>\u00a0of CS available to liberal-arts students of any discipline, and simultaneously develops the analytical thinking skills needed for later courses. Starting with the\u00a0first course<\/a>\u00a0(which satisfies the College\u2019s Mathematical Reasoning [MAR] requirement), the program emphasizes a\u00a0hands-on<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0approach to teaching, which emphasizes learning intellectual concepts through concrete exercises. The courses\u00a0span national expectations<\/a>\u00a0for CS curricula, and the program embraces its liberal arts context in the\u00a0organization of its major<\/a>, its emphasis on teamwork and communication skills, its involvement in interdisciplinary projects, and its distinctive, integrated interest in computing ethics.<\/div>\n
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Combined with St. Olaf\u2019s approach to the liberal arts and any other interests or major one may have, the thinking skills, ethical analysis, empowering concepts and learning experiences offered by CS courses prepare students to make lifelong contributions to the 21st century world, whether in computing-related areas or in fields not usually associated with computing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t
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