{"id":41377,"date":"2014-03-09T21:26:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T03:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/09\/uniting-the-fuzzy-techie-divide.html"},"modified":"2014-03-09T21:26:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T03:26:51","slug":"uniting-the-fuzzy-techie-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/09\/uniting-the-fuzzy-techie-divide.html","title":{"rendered":"Uniting the Fuzzy-Techie Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"
I have no idea how unique this is out there, but having combo English\/CS and Music\/CS majors sound pretty cool — and like something that I might have pursued in my undergraduate career once upon a decade.<\/p>\n

(In my own way, I sort of\u00a0did — my hobbyist work in creating help files to instruct\u00a0folks how to use the mainframe text editor as a word processor was a key element in my going from being a History grad to being a systems programmer intern at the school computer center. I've been in the IT biz ever since.)<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Kimberly Hayworth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stanford to offer new undergraduate majors integrating humanities, computer science<\/b>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Stanford to offer new undergraduate majors integrating humanities, computer science<\/a>
\n Faculty Senate approves two “joint majors” on a pilot basis, bringing computer science together with English and music. More joint proposals are expected.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have no idea how unique this is out there, but having combo English\/CS and Music\/CS majors sound pretty cool — and like something that I might have pursued in my undergraduate career once upon a decade. (In my own way, I sort of\u00a0did — my hobbyist work in creating help files to instruct\u00a0folks how … Continue reading “Uniting the Fuzzy-Techie Divide”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49961,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/30\/in-defense-of-the-liberal-arts.html","url_meta":{"origin":41377,"position":0},"title":"In defense of the liberal arts","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 30-Mar-15 5:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"STEM is important, but its importance should not be asserted at the cost of less technical studies. 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