Information about Wheaton College (IL) CSCI Visiting Position

This page is to provide more information about the visiting professor position in computer science. Please note that this page contains informal supplemental information about the program and the position. The official advertisement of the position can be found on Wheaton College's human resources webpage.

Information about Wheaton College (IL)

Wheaton College is a fully residential liberal arts college committed to explicitly Christian education and cultural involvement. All members of the faculty are expected to contribute to students' spiritual development. All members of the college community affirm the college's Statement of Faith and agree to abide by the lifestyle expectations described in the college's Community Covenant. For more information, see the following:

• Wheaton College's Statement of Faith
• Wheaton College's Community Covenant

Please note that Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL is unrelated to another institution with the same name in Norton, MA.

Information about the Computer Science program

The computer science program (offered by the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science) is committed to educating undergraduates in the science of computation within the context of a broader liberal arts education. We are consciously not a computer engineering program, not an information technology program, and not a vocational software development program. Although we continually improve our curriculum to remain current, we promote core concepts of the field rather than the trends of the day. Our program is designed to prepare students well for careers in software development and information security, but also to prepare students well for non-traditional career paths that use computer science, for graduate school in computer science or computational aspects of natural science, and for life as a whole. See the program website for more information, especially

• a summary of our curriculum
• profiles of our current faculty

Information about the open position

This position is a year-long sabbatical replacement. We have two faculty members expected to be on sabbatical in 2025-2026 in opposite semesters.

We are primarily looking for candidates who can teach introductory programming courses for majors and non-majors using Java and Python.

• CSCI 232. Programming for the Mathematical Sciences. An introduction to computer programming for students who want to apply programming to mathematics or the natural sciences. Topics include problem-solving, types, control structures, and functions. Programming is taught using Python or a similar language and libraries for statistics and numerical processing. This course is for non-majors. Most students who take this are majoring in math, but we get students from other science majors as well. This is intended as a "one-semester experience" in computer programming---students are not expected to take additional computer science courses.
• CSCI 234. Programming for Business Analytics. This course will provide an introduction to programming using Python or a similar language for students who have little or no prior experience in programming. Topics include basic problem-solving techniques, algorithm development, decision and repetition structures, input and output functions, file handling, basic data structures, and introduction to object-oriented programming. This course also is for non-majors, mainly for students in the Business/Economics major. This course has a lot of similarity to CSCI 232, but goes at a slower pace.
• CSCI 235. Programming I: Problem Solving. A first course in computer programming for beginners. Structured and object-oriented programming in Java or a similar programming language. Types, control structures, methods, and recursion; objects, classes, interfaces, encapsulation and polymorphism; exceptions, library classes, file I/O, linked lists, and graphical user interfaces. This is a fairly traditional (though fast-paced) introduction to programming and the first course in the computer science major program.

There is room, however, to tailor the teaching assignment to the person who is hired. There may be opportunity for the visiting faculty member to teach an upper division elective in her or her specialty.