Are you apprehensive about switching your major to business because you feel you will not be getting a quality education at Penn State? You no longer have to fret, as Computer Science 203 for business majors is a core class for all business students.

             According to a recent Comp Sci 203 syllabus students will have the opportunity to learn such essential skills as windows applications, e-mailing, and even web surfing.

Business majors will have the opportunity to learn many useful things in their CMPSC 203 lectures, such as the fact that the object in the picture above is known as “a computer”.

             Pamela Trinity (freshman - DUS) stated, "I was thinking about go into marketing, but when I saw a computer science course listed as a requirement I hesitated. I'm not sure I can keep pace with the demanding business curriculum."

             However according to the Dean of the Business College, Dr. Matthew Baker the class is not as daunting as it may originally appear. “While some of the business courses such as CMPSC 203 C may seem demanding and challenging, with a few hours of studying a night, students’ will be on their way to figuring out how to use a mouse in a matter of weeks.”

             Some current business students are enthralled by the technology that lies ahead of them.

             "I wasn't aware of this WWW creature, but then we add an assignment where we had to use this thing called a search engine,” said current CMPSC 203 student Kyle Lollon (sophomore - business logistics), “It’s pretty darn complicated though, but I did manage to figure out how to perform a search in under 10 hours.”

             Other students had similar comments about the course.

             "For one assignment we had to send an e-mail to our professor which wasn't too bad." commented Mark Yoner (sophomore - business logistics) "That was actually pretty easy, except for the next one we had to send an e-mail with an attachment. I had to pull an all-nighter on that one."

             CMPSC 203 will be offered next fall and during the summer at the University Park campus. However, due to the demanding nature of the class, according to the syllabus, “This course is not for engineering or science majors.”