Department of Computer Science

Undergraduate Curriculum Meeting Minutes

Time and Date:3:00 p.m. Wed., April 01, 2009

Place: AB1-202 Conference Room

Attendance: Drs. Cooper, Ji, McGuire, Cho, Hartness, Shannon, Chen and Mr. Collins

Minute recorder: Lei Chen

  1. Mission statements for CS, IS and IA
  2. Currently no explicit mission statement
  3. Need a mission statement for each major
  4. Need to review school/department mission statements first
  5. Acquire mission statement draft from Dr. Cooper
  6. Mission statements will need to be listed in the school catalog
  7. Mission statement work assignment: IA (Collins, Chen), IS (Hartness) and CS (Cho)
  1. Course prerequisites
  2. It is discovered that CS147 student are at very different levels. CS146 Introduction to Algorithms and Programming needs to have a standard across the sections.Proposed to have a committee (Dr. Ji volunteered to do this) to prepare a set of labs and individual instructors can add extra material. All CS146 sections can use the same/standardized/uniform syllabus (refer to Dr. Burris’)
  3. For CS146, consider organizing our joint wiki/book and / or moving away from physical textbook, e.g. put things online, etc.
  4. CS147 Programming Algorithms and Data Structures is currently a prerequisite for almost all courses.
  5. CS147 is no longer a prerequisite of CS272 Computer Organization I
  6. Consider the possibility to combine CS146 and CS147 to a single 5-hr course.
  1. Identifying missing conventional core courses
  2. A file structure / programming(indexing, external data structure) course is suggested
  3. A system programming (hardware/disk, assembly language) course is suggested. DF major also needs this course.
  4. Some conventional core courses are not in our core: networks, digital logic, etc.
  5. Rethink CS272 Computer Organization I a 4-hr course to include more content
  1. Development of appropriate prerequisites for each major
  2. MTH295 Discrete Math is a prerequisite for CS362 Data Structures
  3. MTH142Calculus I, MTH170Pre Calculus Algebra, and MTH199 Mathematics for Managerial Decision Making are required for CS courses.
  4. CS234 Networks I should be a prerequisite for CS463 Networks II and DF291 Network Security.Consider separating host-based and network-based security courses.
  1. Modification of obsolete course names
  2. CS133 Introduction to Computers will be changed toCTE133
  3. Consider changing DF138 Introduction to Digital Forensics and Information Assurance to Introduction to Information Assurance
  4. Consider changing CS146 Introduction to Algorithms and Programming to Computer Programming I and CS278 C Programming to Computer Programming II
  5. Consider changing CS147 Programming Algorithms and Data structures to Data Structure I and CS362 Data Structures to Data Structure II
  6. Consider changing CS334 Database Management Systems to Database
  7. Consider whether to keep CS394 Numerical Methods
  8. Keep CS430 Language Translator
  9. Standardization of course syllabi
  10. Need to have standardized syllabi and post them online (takes a few semesters to do so)
  11. Use Dr. Burris’ syllabi as template/example.

Other business

  1. Dr. McGuire (former chair) passed a few sets of document (from previous UCC meetings) to Dr. Cho (current chair)
  2. Scheduled to have regular UCC meeting every other Wednesday (bi-weekly) at 3:00 p.m.
  3. Recording minutes work assigned to Lei Chen.
  4. CTE 233 Multimedia Technologies
  5. CTE 333 Web Technologies
  6. Future Development: Propose to have a non-CS major track to provide “Computing Technology Education” degree plan.