Perceptual and Cognitive Psychology and Information Processing Theory fit within CS very neatly. Think Usability and Human Computer Interaction. To effectively take into account who is using your system, you need to know about the user that's where anthropology, psych and sociology fit in.
You're looking at the entire thing wrong. The purpose of college is to to produce a well rounded and educated citizen. Courses like philosophy teach more than what some dead white guy said over 2000 years ago. It teaches methods of logic, argument and thinking. Courses in the sciences I think are also necessary - look at how many people still think that the earth revolve around the sun and that evolution is untrue - much less other concerns, such as the effects of pollution etc on our health. In other words therer are reasons for these extra courses. If you wanted only a vocational school, well there's always places like community colleges and Strayer. larry On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:07:22 -0500, Michael T. Tangorre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Just as the class ended, we let him know what happened. Interestingly > > enough he did not rant against behavioral psych for the rest of the > > course. > > LOL. Nice job! > > This professor I have now is 100% gung-ho for Economics. He thinks it is the > best thing since sliced bread. While that may be so I faily to see how it > fits into the Computer Information Systems graduate degree program I am in. > It makes me think back to all thoise undergraduate classes I was forced to > take: pyschology, sociology, chemistry, etc... While they were all very good > courses, I was paying for a Computer Science degree, not a liberal arts > degree (I took all the gen-ed stuff in high school)! I know that we all need > to be well rounded and versed a little in many different subject areas, I > can honestly tell you that 25% of my undergraduate courses were to pad the > pockets of the university, plain and simple! I would have been happy with > ALL computer science courses!!!! > > It is going to be EXTREMELY difficult to find the desire to earn an A in > this class... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:145406 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
