Spring 2004 CS Undergraduate Studies Committee
Notes
Meeting Notes
- 2/16/04
- Review of Course Assessments Spring 2003/Fall 2003 (Step D1) - The
committee reviewed results from course evaluations from Spring and Fall
of 2004 Summary Data (Step
D2).
- Discussed progress of intro to programming changing to Java and other
BS in CS changes
- Detailed Course Review - CS350 materials collected for Spring 2004,
to be reviewed in Fall 2004 - collect the sample graded materials already
requested for NCA assessment, and also give us a copy (paper or electronic)
of your lecture notes/slides, www page, all materials for class, etc. We
review and give feedback next fall to you and course manager.
- 3/8/04 Present were Nazli, Shlomo, David, and Matt.
- review of all course manager input from last semester
- Tom Jacobious of the IPRO office visited to discuss the undergraduate
studies motion to reduce IPRO requirements from 6 credits to 3. All of
the participants at today's meeting felt that, although IPRO's have some
problems, it would be a bad idea to reduce their requirements given that
they often provide a positive experience for our students. Please send
your vote on this motion to me ASAP and I'll make sure that our votes are
passed on to the university committee. See attached
item up for vote at next IIT Undergrad Studies Committee on Thursday 4/1/04
Basically reduce IPRO requirement from 6 hours minimum to 3 hours minimum.
Departments would still have opprotunity to stay at 6 hours if they want
I think we should discuss on Monday at our meeting and possibly get all
CS faculty input. If this passes the IIT Undergrad Studies Committee, it
goes to Faculty Council then the entire faculty for approval IPRO Discussion
- Next, we discussed the CS 485 requirement. In our survey we found that
many top programs do not offer a similar course. We reviewed the ABET requirement
and found that we could meet the ethics requirement by incorporating more
ethics-related information into our ITP course, CS 487 (Software Engineering)
and in CS 422 (Data Mining). This opens the door to the removal of CS 485
as a requriement and we could add a different CS requirement. We agreed
to ask the commitee to survey the schools they were previously assigned
and make a matrix of core CS requirements for each of the top programs
in the country. We will match that with our program and identify ideas
for a new CS requirement.
- Finally, please remember to send me your CS 330 assessment (last semester's
course). So far I have recieved contributions from Nazli and Shlomo --
waiting on the rest of the committee. See you at the next meeting... DG
- 4/12/04
CS330 Detailed Course Review (from Fall 2003 Offering) (Step A3)
Proposed Changes (from Spring/Summer/Fall 02 assessment cycle). (Step
E1)
- Change CS105/CS106 to CS115/116 for CS majors, CS105 for non-CS
- Allowing MATH475 as option for MATH474
- Addition of MATH332 or MATH333
- Restriction of Math Elective to MATH252, 410, 453, 454, 476, 482
- Removal of PHIL374 as option for CS485
- Removal of one Humanities Elective, Removal of “one social science
elective must be an economics”, Humanities/Social Science requirements
are now the same as the General Education Requirements
Proposed Changes (from Spring/Summer/Fall 03 assessment cycle). (Step
E1)
- CS447 New Course Objectives, New Course Manager (Ren)
- Meet with faculty teaching a course for the first time to review objectives
and expectations for the course.