2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Escaping the CS Dungeon: Modern College Curricula within and Beyond Computing

Presented at Computers in Education Division (COED) Track 5.B

The prevalence of technology across disciplines has created a need for non-computing majors to learn programming and computing practices. Despite this, there is a lack of research documenting current programming course offerings for non-computing majors. Therefore, it is unclear how common these courses are, what fields these courses support, what programming languages are used in the courses, and what departments and institutions offer these courses. To answer these questions, we explored how and where computing is integrated into STEM and non-STEM undergraduate programs within different disciplines based on 81 survey responses of instructors teaching introductory programming courses at the 50 largest public universities in the United States. Our results indicate that computing courses are commonly offered to students of STEM and non-STEM disciplines in a variety of different programming languages.

Authors
  1. Audrey Marie DeHoog University of Florida [biography]
  2. Ms. Amy Wu University of Florida [biography]
Note

The full paper will be available to logged in and registered conference attendees once the conference starts on June 22, 2025, and to all visitors after the conference ends on June 25, 2025