| Title | Change prerequisites for all graduate-level courses in computer science |
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| Submitting Dean | Ronald Levant |
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| Submitting College | Arts & Sciences -- Annabelle Foos x7937 |
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| Departments Generating the Proposal | Comp Sci |
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| Objection Deadline | March 13, 2006 |
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| Proposal Status | Final Approval Granted |
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| Proposal Last Updated | April 07, 2006 by PR J. Thomas Dukes |
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| Effective Date | Spring 2006 |
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| Brief Summary of Proposal | This is a blanket proposal to change prerequisites for all graduate-level 3460 courses in the ranges of 508-580 and 626-680 from specific course numbers to "Admission to the Computer Science Master’s Program or permission".
Rationale:
At the December 2004 meeting of the Faculty Senate, a resolution presented by the Academic Policies Committee (APC) was passed. This action resulted in prerequisite checking being turned on by default in the PeopleSoft registration system for all courses.
In May 2005 the Faculty Senate also passed a resolution so that undergraduate course numbers may not be used as prerequisites for graduate-level courses.
As a result of the changes to the prerequisite structure, most graduate students of Computer Science are prevented from doing the registration themselves. The department administrative assistant has had to manually register our graduate students.
The idea behind prerequisites is to inform students of the background that is considered necessary to succeed in the course. In the Department of Computer Science, at the undergraduate level the prerequisites were enforced; at the graduate level, they were purely informative. The combination of enforcing prerequisites at the graduate level and not permitting undergraduate course numbers to be used will require a different standard for those prerequisites.
The current blanket proposal will enable most graduate students admitted to the computer science program to do online registration by themselves.
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| Type of Proposal | Course changes only |
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| Graduate School Endorsement Status | Approved |
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| Graduate School Endorsement Updated | February 27, 2006 by GS Heather Blake |
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| Institutional Research Status | Approved |
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| IR Status Updated | December 19, 2005 by IR Dolores Bezilla |
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| Library Status | Approved |
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| Library Status Updated | February 01, 2006 by UL Nashieli Marcano |
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| Distance Learning Review Committee Status | Not required |
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| DLRC Status Updated | |
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| General Education Advisory Committee Status | Not required |
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| GEAC Status Updated | |
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| Resource Requirements | No additional resources |
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| Resource Requirements Updated | October 28, 2005 by AS dean's ofc Christy Adams |
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