At Bard College, we have recently begun offering CS intro courses that are juxtaposed with other disciplines. For instance, one of the most popular courses this semester was a CS called "Interactive Media" that had students learning Processing with the end result being they had to create a substantial piece of art (installation / visualizer / game) at the end of it. I also believe that next semester there is an intro course that is focused on using NLP (really basic stuff like N-grams, counting the number of word repetitions on a text) in conjunction with experimental poetry.

Its great because it gets the fundamentals of programming down while also allowing the students to attach it to their other interests. I love being able to talk to my art student friends about their projects and helping them with code. They are all really into it.