People don’t get this up in arms when there is a math course about using math tools or math history or how math is used to solve actual problems, but for some reason they do about computer science.
They just label such people as Applied Mathematicians, or worse: Physicists and Engineers; and then get back to sensible business such as algebraic geometry, complex analysis and group theory.
If universities offered a major in which students learned to operate telescopes of various kinds and sizes, and then called it astrophysics, people would be mad too.
