New Program Proposal Bachelor Of Science Major In Discovery Informatics

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CAAL
2/10/2005
Agenda Item 2e.
New Program Proposal
Bachelor of Science
Major in Discovery Informatics
College of Charleston
Summary
The College of Charleston requests approval to offer a program leading to the
Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Discovery Informatics to be implemented in
Fall 2005.
The Board of Trustees of the College of Charleston approved the proposal on
October 29, 2004. The proposal was submitted for Commission review on November 19,
2004. The proposal was reviewed by the Advisory Committee on Academic Programs at
its meeting on January 20, 2005. Comments at the Advisory Committee on Academic
Programs’ meeting in January 20, 2005, were positive about the concept and supportive
of the proposal itself.
The purpose of the program is to prepare graduates with entry-level skills for
managing and interpreting huge databases now available in every known subject as a
result of the world’s entry into the computer age. The need for the program has been
determined by the increased requirements to organize and track the huge amounts of
alpha and numeric databases being created in the computer age. Central to the program’s
curriculum are the fields of mathematics (especially statistics) and computer science.
The program is designed to provide students with first-rate skills and knowledge
in computer science, mathematics, statistics, and a relevant substantive field of study with
databases of exceedingly large size, so that students can learn statistical modeling and
computer-based operations to index, store, extract, analyze and interpret from those
computerized databases. The growth in size of databases and the need to be able to
“analyze and mine” them, as the proposal states, will be one of the chief challenges for
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knowledge development in the 21
century.
According to the proposal, the program will be academically rigorous and multi-
disciplinary in focus. Because of that mix, the institution is anticipating that the program
will elicit significant interest among some of the most academically talented students who
apply to the College.
The curriculum will consist of a core of 18 courses constituting a total of 54
semester hours (26 in mathematics; 19 in computer science; and nine in Discovery
Informatics), as well as courses in one cognate area (12-22 credit hours, depending upon
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