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Career Details :: Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Description

Teach courses in computer science. May specialize in a field of computer science, such as the design and function of computers or operations and research analysis.

Experience

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Education

A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Training

Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Tasks

• Prepares and delivers lectures to students.
• Directs research of other teachers or graduate students working for advanced academic degrees.
• Advises students on academic and vocational curricula.
• Conducts research in particular field of knowledge and publishes findings in professional journals.
• Serves on faculty committee providing professional consulting services to government and industry.
• Acts as adviser to student organizations.
• Compiles, administers, and grades examinations, or assigns this work to others.
• Stimulates class discussions.
• Compiles bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.

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• Computer and Information Systems Managers
  
• Computer Programmers
  
• Computer Support Specialists
  
• Computer Systems Analysts
  
• Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment
  
• Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary
  
• Network Systems and Data Communications Analysts
  

Important Abilities

• Oral Expression
• Speech Clarity
• Written Expression
• Written Comprehension
• Oral Comprehension

General Work Activities

• Teaching Others
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Updating & Using Job-Relevant Knowledge
• Interacting With Computers
• Communicating With Persons Outside Organization

Important Skills

• Instructing
  
• Reading Comprehension
  
• Learning Strategies
  
• Speaking
  
• Information Gathering
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Supervise, Coach, Train Others
• Provide a Service to Others
• Deal With External Customers
• Indoors

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