The roster of revolutionary CS + X degrees grew by one with the addition of a bachelor’s degree in CS + Education that students can enroll for in the Fall 2023 semester.
Illinois Computer Science is joining the College of Education to offer a new blended undergraduate degree with two concentrations – Secondary Education and Learning Sciences. Each concentration will have a different focus and different career pathways.
The CS + X degrees, many the firsts of their kind, offer a solid grounding in computer science with training in the arts or sciences that allows students to bring computational skills to fields where they are increasingly in demand.
This new degree option joins existing bachelor’s degrees in CS + X programs that include Anthropology, Astronomy, Chemistry, Crop Sciences, and more. Two other blended bachelor’s degrees include Mathematics & Computer Science, offered since 1964, and Statistics & Computer Science, added in 1988.
A closer look at the new CS + Education degree follows.
CS + Education
In education, there is now more opportunity than ever to enliven the practice with the assistance of technology. The current generation of students, if instructed properly, will know better than those who came before them how best to implement this technology within the educational setting, according to Luc Paquette, an Education professor.
“Computers are now an important part of learning, whether they are used as a tool to engage in learning activities or whether to learn about computers and how they work,” he said.
Paquette continued to explain the program’s particulars in the following Q&A.
