This class satisfies the Junior Year Writing requirement by providing instruction in several different technical communication genres, including research writing and science writing. Writing contexts will include writing for municipal, public, and professional audiences. Through our writing, we will engage with computing topics and challenges facing our current global context and explore various impacts of computers on modern society. Students will produce approximately 20-25 pages of polished written work over the course of the semester.

This class satisfies the Junior Year Writing requirement by providing instruction in several different technical communication genres, including research writing and science writing. Writing contexts will include writing for municipal, public, and professional audiences. Through our writing, we will engage with computing topics and challenges facing our current global context and explore various impacts of computers on modern society. Students will produce approximately 20-25 pages of polished written work over the course of the semester.

This class satisfies the Junior Year Writing requirement by providing instruction in several different technical communication genres, including research writing and science writing. Writing contexts will include writing for municipal, public, and professional audiences. Through our writing, we will engage with computing topics and challenges facing our current global context and explore various impacts of computers on modern society. Students will produce approximately 20-25 pages of polished written work over the course of the semester.

No matter where you end up in tech, you will need to explain concepts, products and ideas to people with different technical backgrounds. This course is intended to help prepare you for these communication tasks. Through the lens of tutoring, we will work on explaining technical ideas clearly and compassionately to others. We will do some theoretical study, including a history of CS education as well as brain and learning science, and some practice, including tutoring beginning students in CS.

This seminar is intended to help you become fully prepared to succeed in CICS at UMass. Students in this seminar will be led by an instructor with a detailed understanding of the transfer student experience, and supported by various staff members in CICS. You will learn about which campus and College resources will be most helpful to you, how to best utilize these resources, and where you can look for other opportunities to connect.

This course is designed to prepare CICS students for their internship and job searches, improve their professional skills (both technical and soft) and help them approach professional development and/or advanced educational opportunities with confidence.

Inspired by the Maker movement, this course provides a hands-on introduction to physical computing: sensing and responding to the physical world using computers. Specific topics include: basic electronics and circuit design, microcontroller programming using Arduinos, sensing and responding to the physical world, rapid prototyping (3D printing and laser cutting etc.), soft circuits and wearable electronics. The course will encourage and empower students to invent, design, and build practical hardware projects that interact with the physical world.

Inspired by the Maker movement, this course provides a hands-on introduction to physical computing: sensing and responding to the physical world using computers. Specific topics include: basic electronics and circuit design, microcontroller programming using Arduinos, sensing and responding to the physical world, rapid prototyping (3D printing and laser cutting etc.), soft circuits and wearable electronics. The course will encourage and empower students to invent, design, and build practical hardware projects that interact with the physical world.

This course is part of the CICS Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP). It provides a team-based research apprentice experience for Computer Science and Informatics majors in the second year of their major.

This course is part of the CICS Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP). It provides a team-based research apprentice experience for Computer Science and Informatics majors in the second year of their major.