07/01/2020One of the defining characteristics of Westmont College—and, by extension, the CATLab—is a commitment to the liberal arts. In its philosophy of education, Westmont writes that it works to shape students into “certain kinds of people, not mere repositories of information or mere possessors of professional skills.” In an article exploring the connection between computer science and the liberal arts, Henry M. Walker and Charles Kelemen write that “a liberal arts education is to be an education for life, not some short-term vocational preparation.”Laura Phillips One of the defining characteristics of Westmont College—and, by extension, the CATLab—is a commitment to the liberal arts. In its...