Questions to Ask University CS Departments?

egarrido16 asks: "I will be visiting numerous undergraduate colleges over the next several months and meeting with the chairpeople of the computer science departments. I need to come up with some questions to ask them so that I can evaluate their methods of teaching CS (i.e. 'Does this college believe programming is a fundamental or is it more of a tool?'). Reflecting upon your experience, what questions do you think would be necessary to ask to decide what the educators feel is important in a CS curriculum?"

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[Anonymous Coward]

What percentage of your students are female?

Re:Simple question

[neilb78]

You mean there was curriculum??? Doh!

Re:Simple question

[foeclan]

My favorite was 'Hmm, you need an elective. Here, take Fortran, it'll come in handy someday.'

I have yet to be in a situation where only my one quarter of experience in Fortran would come in handy. Apparently, he envisioned me being stranded on a desert island with only a Cray to keep me company, and it's instrumental in saving the Earth. Sadly, I'd probably screw up a loop and it'd end up infinitely saving the Earth from the same threat until it crashed, taking the Earth with it.