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Our Goals

Improve the learning experience of students in core CS courses

Build a sense of community amongst undergraduate students

Create a supportive environment for underrepresented groups in CS

The UCR CS ULA program started in Fall 2021. Since then we have…

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Professor Watkinson Medina

"The ULA program is a great chance to make a real difference. Students get more personalized learning that helps with their classes, and ULAs get to grow as educators. All in all, the ULA program is a good thing for everyone who's part of it."

- Professor Watkinson Medina

Course Offerings

Our ULAs are here to support you through office hours, and directly in lab sections.

Starting Week 2 of each quarter, each class listed below will have one or more ULAs there to offer you direct assistance!

9 Series

Covers Python programming fundamentals, problem-solving, and C++ concepts through application-based tasks.

10 Series

Covers C++ programming, problem-solving, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented principles.

CS011

Covers discrete mathematics, logic, sets, functions, number theory, probability.

CS061

Covers computer organization, logic, memory, I/O, instructions, and assembly programming.

CS100

Covers software system development, design, languages, tools, testing, debugging, and ethics.

CS111

Covers discrete structures, asymptotic analysis, recurrences, graph theory, and number theory.

CS141

Covers algorithm analysis, greedy algorithms, divide and conquer algorithms, dynamic programming, and graph theory.

CS153

Covers operating system abstractions, threads, processes, scheduling, concurrency, memory management with paging, and file systems.

9 Series

Covers Python programming fundamentals, problem-solving, and C++ concepts through application-based tasks.

10 Series

Covers C++ programming, problem-solving, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented principles.

CS011

Covers discrete mathematics, logic, sets, functions, number theory, probability.

CS061

Covers computer organization, logic, memory, I/O, instructions, and assembly programming.

CS100

Covers software system development, design, languages, tools, testing, debugging, and ethics.

CS111

Covers discrete structures, asymptotic analysis, recurrences, graph theory, and number theory.

CS141

Covers algorithm analysis, greedy algorithms, divide and conquer algorithms, dynamic programming, and graph theory.

CS153

Covers operating system abstractions, threads, processes, scheduling, concurrency, memory management with paging, and file systems.

Citations

Check out the research about the ULA program!

Haji Amin Shirazi, S., Salloum, M., & Watkinson, N. (2024, March) A Study of Undergraduate Learning Assistants (ULAs) in Computer Science.
In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (pp. 1664-1665)

Undergraduate Learning Assistants