Lawson joined Jennifer Drake, provost and executive
vice president for Academic Affairs; Donovan Anderson, interim dean
of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and Linda Lewandowski,
dean of the Kirkhof College of Nursing, in discussing how
interdisciplinary collaboration will benefit students.

“The humanities, arts, social sciences and sciences
bring essential knowledge to bear in the Computing + X equation,”
Drake said. “Our students will enter careers and live lives that
demand the ability to think critically, collaborate across
differences and navigate complex, ethical questions, including those
about the relationships with humanity, technology and the environment.”

Faculty members and department chairs from
anthropology, advertising and public relations, criminal justice,
English, business, allied health services, mathematics, modern
languages, nursing, political science and statistics offered a
preview of how programming could be integrated into those fields. 

Elizabeth Arnold, associate professor and assistant
chair in the anthropology department, said that as artificial
intelligence and computing increasingly emphasize human-centered
design, anthropology offers a natural complement.

“Anthropology is the study of people, across time,
around the world and all the cultural differences that impact how we
use technology,” Arnold said. “As computing students think about how
their technology goes out into the world and across cultures and
peoples, then the skills of anthropology have an impact to bring
them as well.”

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