Academic Information Session Neha Rawal Associate Director, ICS Student Affairs.

Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

AcademicInformation Session

Neha RawalAssociate Director, ICS Student Affairs

Computers and technology are everywhere

Medicine: Imaging Humanities: Data Mining

Biological & Physical Sciences: Modeling

Art, Education, & Social Ecology

Interdisciplinary Education

Only School of Computing in the UC

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Quick Facts about ICS

• Founded in 1968 as Department of Information and Computer Science

• Established in 2002 as an independent school

• Only computing-focused school in UC system

• Three departments:– Computer Science– Informatics– Statistics

Corporate Connections

Curricular Diversity

• 6 Majors– Business Information Management

(with The Paul Merage School of Business)

– Computer Game Science– Computer Science– Computer Science and Engineering

(with The Henry Samueli School of Engineering)

– Informatics– Software Engineering

• 6 Minors (some major and minor combinations are restricted)

– Bioinformatics– Digital Information Systems– Health Informatics– Informatics– Information and Computer Science– Statistics

Curricular Diversity

UCI offers choices galore!

• 80 majors and 66 minors to date• Freshmen 1-unit seminars (limited to 15 students), such as:

– Sports & Statistics (ICS Dean Hal Stern, instructor), – DIY Electonics (Prof. Ian Harris, instructor), – Games for Learning, (Prof. Mark Warschauer, instructor)– Big Bang Theory

• UTeach Program seminars: Where Students Become the Teacher, topics include:

– How 2 Solve Puzzlers (ICS Peer Advisor Igii Enverga, student instructor, and Bren Professor Mike Goodrich, faculty advisor),

– Science & Craft of Coffee, – Harry Potter Muggle Culture

• Education Abroad Program

Project-Based Learning

• Bachelors of Science degrees

• Some majors have two quarter to one-year long senior-design project courses

• CGS, CSE, INF, SE• Other majors allow

students to select their project courses from an extensive list of options

• CS

Research Opportunities

• Student-initiated research• Bren:ICS Honors Program• UCI Undergraduate Research

Opportunities Program (UROP)– Provides guidance, funding and faculty

mentor

• Campus programs that provide a stipend and summer housing, such as:– Summer Undergraduate Research

Program– Summer Undergraduate Research

Fellowship in Information Technology (SURF-IT)

Faculty Excellence & Accessibility

• Engaged and accessible faculty— Weekly office hours by faculty and course TAs— Associate Dean hosts weekly drop-in hours

• Academic counseling staff— Help students find most efficient way to meet all their

academic goals— Inform students about programs/opportunities that

enhance learning and build their resume— Guide students to appropriate campus resources

• Learning & Academic Resource Center (LARC)— FREE workshops/tutoring & fee-based tutoring

• Math, Physics, and Chemistry Departments— FREE drop-in tutoring

• ICS Tutoring— Peer to peer (fee based)

Committed to Student Success

Women in Information and Computer Sciences (WICS) SAGE Scholars

WICS/Girls Inc. EcoRaft Demo

Building a Diverse Community

ICS Student Council members at ICS/Boeing Alumni Night

Bren Brawl: Friendly competition among student gamers

ICS/Blizzard Alumni Night

Student Showcase participants

Bren:ICS students at UCILeadership Conference

Student Life

QUESTIONS?

Get prompt responses and

different perspectives:

• Academic counselors/peer advisors:– [email protected]– 949-824-5156 (M-F 8-5)

• Faculty:– Tony Givargis

Associate Dean for Student Affairs

[email protected]