[Salik Syed]

I think it's awesome that they are figuring out more creative ways to teach computer science. But I don't really think there's anyway to ever remove programming or mathematics from Computer Science.
Computer Science is and always will be a very mathematically intensive field, not so much math as in vector calc or diff eqs, but more discrete math and logic/proof oriented math. It may be nice to have an intro class that is very broadly appealing and fun, but once in the major there is no way to escape algorithms or mathematics and complexity theory.

"More than a dozen universities have created "media computation" programs, which hope to introduce students to computer science through digital art and Web design, not traditional programming, according to the Associated Press."

I kind of cringe at presenting 'digital art' and 'web design' as computer science because that's not really what the field is about, if they want to introduce people to webdesign or art that's great but labeling it Computer Science is kind of misleading. People often ask if CS is about "making webpages" and it's really alot more complicated than that. In fact even "programming" is not what computer science really is. I guess the best way to look at is almost a branch of math with a focus on solving problems with some engineering stuff thrown in.