Moodle at Eckerd College 2025-26 Academic Year

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This course serves the advanced student writer as a gateway into the Writers in Paradise conference at Eckerd College, which is the primary experience of the course. However, in addition to attending all events at the conference, students will meet the class for a normative workshop experience, designed to allow the student participant to make the best use of the conference, the panels, and the conference workshop. Permission of instructor required.

Applies principles of improvisation in theatre to the relationships and situations of your life. We will play theatre games such as PowerPoint Karaoke or Story Story Die in order to learn fundamental principles of improv and conventions for theatre games. We will also apply these principles to such areas of life as entrepreneurship, leadership, teamwork, and effective communication. Students will create short form improvisations in class and explore short selections of literature in business, psychology, and communication in order to understand—and ultimately practice—more effective generation, organization, and presentation of ideas in various contexts, as well as increased optimization when working in a group.

Basic problem solving and algorithm development using an object-oriented computer programming language as a tool to implement solutions for numeric and non-numeric applications. For students in all majors who want to acquire programming and computer skills.

Continuation of program design and algorithm analysis. Identification and evaluation of classes of problems solvable through well-defined data structures, object oriented programming, and algorithms including stacks, recursion, lists, linked lists, trees, searching and sorting. Prerequisite: CS 143.

Introduction to the methods, processes, algorithms, and tools used in data science. Students will use data science to explore contemporary problems in science, business, and public policy. Prerequisite: CS120 or CS143.

Capstone course in computer science that involves participation in a real-world software project. Students will discuss and apply modern software development principles, methodologies, and tools.

Research and write a thesis under the direction of a member of the Computer Science faculty. Satisfies the comprehensive examination requirement for graduation. Prerequisites: excellence in computer science courses through the Junior year and invitation by the faculty.

For Junior and Senior computer science majors. One course credit on satisfactory completion of two years of participation. Continuation in seminar contingent on satisfactory progress in upper division courses.