New
computer
science
courses
scheduled
for
fall
For computer enthusiasts the University computer science
department is offering four introductory courses next fall.
“Each of the four courses fits the needs of other (non-computer
science ) majors,” says David Moursund, the department head. “For
the computer science major, we have an introductory course num
bered CS 201, 202 and 203.”
CS 221, CS 233, CS 231 and CS 261 have all been designed by the
computer science department with the non-major specifically in mind.
CS 221 — Concepts of Computing — may be taken for either two or
three credit hours.
By SHAHRYAR AHMAD
Of the Emerald
“It’s a ‘dead end’ introductory course in the sense that it does not
give you any computer skills as such at the end of the term. When
students take it for two credits, it involves no programming at all. The
course is taught just like any other social science course, lectures and
all. Lecture will be mostly descriptive. For three credits, the students
have to do at least one hour of programming,” Moursund explained.
CS 233 — Introduction to Numerical Computation — and CS 261 —
Computing in the Social Sciences — are “basically the same courses.”
These two courses are meant for the social science and undeclared
majors to prepare them for computer work in their own fields. The
class enrollment is limited to non-science majors so that “the students
enrolled can compete with their own majors.”
CS 261 students can follow through in computer science with CS 461
and 462.
CS 231 is titled clearly enough “Introduction to Business Data
Processing.” Business majors are encouraged to take this course, and
perhaps even follow up cm it with a sequence numbered CS 331 and CS
431. The full sequence gives the students a general amount of
background in business computer skills.
“For the gung-ho computer science people, we have CS 201, 202
and 203. We try to isolate them in this sequence and give them a
chance to learn more about computers through competing with people
of similar backgrounds and enthusiasm,” Moursund explained.
Although the computer science department offers a variety of
courses, its enrollment draw is around five per cent of the total student
enrollment during the regular terms. "And three per cent of the fresh
men is all that we get,” in spite of the four basic courses, says
Moursund.
Summers are different for the department. This summer, for
instance, it is putting on a larger program — 19 courses in all — than
its regular offerings. Mousund likes to say, “It’s the best in the state,
and probably (me of the better ones in the nation.”
With scholarship support from the National Science Foundation,
some 45 teachers from all over Oregon are on campus this summer
studying computer science, according to Moursund.
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Bibliography on
China published
The University’s Asian Studies
Committee has published an
annotated bibliography
documenting the efforts of the
contemporary peasants in the
People’s Republic of China (Red
China) to harness their land.
The bibliography, which in
cludes more than 600 items,
specifically details landscape
modification and resource
utilization in the People’s
Republic from 1960 to 1972.
“Doing Battle with Nature” is
the title of the work, which was
edited by Christopher Salter,
visiting assistant professor of
geography and a member of the
Asian Studies Committee during
1972-73. Salter was on leave from
the University of California at
Los Angeles.
The paper emerged from the
work of two seminars at the
University of Oregon. It is
dedicated to the memory of
Burton Moyer, late dean of the
College of Liberal Arts and a
student of China.
“Any geographer who is a
student of China cannot but stand
in awe of the mundane
sophistication and thoroughness
of the peasant of the yellow earth,
in his web of terraces, canals,
market centers and highways
threading through walled cities,”
writes Salter.
He takes special note of a new
dimension in the Chinese
peasantry which he says is
characterized by an expansion of
the concerns of the peasant.
“The traditional focus upon the
family and the village has been
augmented and sometimes
replaced by a dedication to a
production brigade, a commune,
or — perhaps for the first time in
Chinese history — the nation as a
whole.”
Salter attributes the changed
stature of the contemporary
peasant to a new confidence with
which the Chinese are attacking
the traditional limitations of the
natural or under-utilized land
scape.
The largest category in the
bibliography concerns irrigation
and water conservation. Salter
notes that landscape
modification in this realm is an
obvious choice of the managers of
the People’s Republic because
this type of investment produces
higher yields per land unit, with a
minimum of state funding.
Land reclamation is the other
major category.
China is reclaiming her land by
bringing untilled soil into
production, withdrawing land
from the sea, reclaiming river
banks, converting rocky
mountain land into farmland, and
making numerous landscape
changes.
The bibliography includes
material about recent preoc
cupation in China with the
recycling of industrial wastes,
and with using all elements of
industrial production.
The primary source for the
materials annotated was English
translations of Chinese press
releases.
Copies of the bibliography,
priced at $4.30 each, may be
ordered from Esther Leong,
Asian Studies, University of
Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 97403
Chinese set meeting
PEKING, July 23 (AFP)—The
Chinese authorities have recently
asked Japanese delegations,
which had proposed to visit
Peking at the end of this month
and early August, to postpone
their visits until later, a reliable
source said here today.
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reports, the visit by President
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sources said was to begin Aug. 6,
also has been postponed—until
the second half of August.
These reports are interpreted
in diplomatic circles as ad
ditional indications that the
authorities are preparing a
major party meeting for August,
possibly the loth Chinese party
congress.
Peking indicated that this
period was not opportune for a
Japanese visit and that new
arrangements might be made for
sometime in October.
It was announced Friday that
China had similarly postponed a
visit by a mission from the Sino
Japanese Parliamentary League
scheduled for August.
Observers said that as far as it
was known, all top Chinese
leaders were in China except for
Pai Hsiang-Kuo, foreign trade
minister, who is on an official
visit to Australia and New
Zealand, but who is expected to
return before the end of the
month.
Pia was to have gone to
Scandinavia in August for the
opening of an exhibition, but he
reportedly canceled the trip,
saying he could not be away from
China during that time.
Certain observers, who up to
now have been skeptical about
the possibility that the 10th party
congress would be called at a
date as close as August, have
been struck by the sudden con
vening of provincial congresses
of the League of Communist
Youth, of women and of trade
unions.