These pages serve a broad audience:

• Wellesley students exploring the possibility of taking their first CS course
• a current CS student looking for detailed information about major/minor requirements, courses, or research
• a prospective Wellesley student (or relative of one) seeking to better understand the role of computer science education in a women's liberal arts college and the opportunities beyond
• a prospective faculty member looking for a job
• anyone who is curious to find out more about the range and content of our course offerings.
  

Our department was established in 1983, with its first graduates getting their degrees in 1984! If you would like to learn more about the history of the department, take a look at the Brief History of CS at Wellesley that was written back in 1999.

The CS department is made up of faculty with a range of research interests and a dedication to teaching undergraduates. We have developed a broad and complete curriculum that covers the "big ideas" of computer science from hardware to software and from application to theory. Our goal is not to teach students how to use current computer applications, but rather to educate them so that they understand how these applications work and can design and build the computer applications of the future.