We invited a panel of COSC and MDST majors at UBCO to talk about their experience, advice, and bestow their wisdom about different courses and degree paths. If you're a current or aspiring Computer Science major at UBCO, this is definitely worth the listen!

We invited Kathryn Ng, Mathew de Vin, Fiona Firby, and Opey Adeyemi to speak, and even had special guests, Jaden Balogh and Courtney Gosselin!

Listen below:

(We're super sorry for the weird echo, Opey made a mistake while recording!)

2021_09_27-Creativity-in-Computy-Science-Panel.mp4

(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ec1fJ0p0-6bZgt2Nstv2EDlXHitK6Qu7/view?usp=sharing) In case the embed is broken!

Notes

We mentioned some courses by name and course code, so here's a guide for most of the courses we mentioned:

COSC 310 - Software Engineering

COSC 341 - Human-Computer Interaction

COSC 304 - Introduction to Databases

COSC 360 - Web Programming

COSC 447/448 - Directed Studies in Computer Science

COSC 499 - Capstone Software Engineering Project

COSC 123 - Computer Creativity:

VISA 106 - Introduction to Digital Media I

VISA 108 - Introduction to Digital Media II

VISA 268 - Strategies in Digital Art: Visual Communication

MDST 210 - Creative Coding

VISA 269 - Building Virtual Worlds

MDST 330 - Immersive Installation

We also mentioned some instructors by name, here are their names in case it was hard to make them out in the recording (due to that pesky echo).

Miles Thorogood

Aleksandra Dulic

Myron Campbell

Bowen Hui

Ramon Lawrence

Hasan Khaled

Questions Asked:

  1. Which courses do you think allow CS students to be the most creative?
  2. Which elective would you recommend for more creative CS majors?
  3. How can a CS major go about group projects in a way that cultivates design thinking?
  4. Which professors work in more design-related fields?
  5. Any general advice for a more creatively oriented CS major in terms of courses and what to do?
  6. Do you still need arts credits for B Sc.?
  7. What about VISA 102 ?
  8. Will we be doing any projects or work in the club?

...Among others!