Academic Team:

Michal Young (michal@uoregon.edu) 
First-Year Experience Seminar Instructor

Miwake Fisher (miwakof@uoregon.edu)
FIG Assistant

9 credits

UGST 109 First-Year Experience Seminar - 1 credit
STB 151: T 4 - 4:50 PM
CRN: 16326

CS 210 Computer Science I - 4 credits
Lecture
PAC 123: TR 10 - 11:20 AM
CRN: 11423
Discussion
KLA B026: T 12 - 12:50 PM
CRN: 11424

LING 101 Introduction to Language - 4 credits
Lecture
FEN 110: MW 2 - 3:20 PM
CRN: 12913
Discussion
STB 252: R 12 - 12:50 PM
CRN: 12917
 

About the FIG:

How are computer programming languages like natural languages, and how are they different? How is learning Python or Lisp or C like learning Italian or Tagalog or Twi, and how is it different? What can human languages and language learning teach us about designing and learning programming languages? Let’s explore these questions together, as learners of a second (or third, or fourth)natural language and learners of computer programming languages.

This FIG is unavailable for Advanced Registration. Due to Math prerequisites for CS 210, math placement testing must be completed prior to students being eligible to enroll.

CS 210 Computer Science I - CoreEd or major satisfying course

Basic concepts and practices of computer science. Topics include algorithmic problem solving, levels of abstraction, object-oriented design and programming, software organization, analysis of algorithm and data structures.

Prereq: MATH 112. 

LING 101 Introduction to Language - CoreEd or major satisfying course

Nontechnical introduction to language. Issues of general concern such as language attitude; language and legislation, nationalism, gender; language learning; and human language versus animal communication.