The faculty is committed to develop a level of computer literacy in its graduates. It has recently undertaken to ensure that skills training is built into the curriculum of all first-year subjects. Prior to 1996, the faculty required each student to demonstrate or achieve a degree of computer literacy. The objective of this is to ensure that arts graduates are equipped with skills essential for both their continued academic work, and for their ready acceptance into the job market. The requirement is explicit recognition of the role that computers have increasingly come to play in intellectual work in recent years.
The requirement, which must be met by the end of the student's second year, can be met in either of two ways: (i) by demonstrating competence in a short test; (ii) by successfully completing the course on introductory computing offered by the faculty.
This requirement applies to all arts undergraduate students whose first year of enrolment in the faculty was between 1992 and 1995, including double degree students. In 1995, students entering the Bachelor of Music program and the Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Commerce double degree were also be expected to fulfil the requirement.
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