Curriculum Committee Agenda for 1995-1996
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For each item, first name shown is CIS faculty member who is "in charge".
"CC person" listed is Curriculum Committee member who knows the
most about it or has volunteered, and is expected to keep CC on track.

    High Priority (work hard this quarter; finish ASAP):
      - Establish a permanent course on professionalism/ethics,
      	needed for accreditation (Ken; CC person: Ken)
      - Change CIS 211 to CIS 200 and update related courses (e.g., 201,
        214), already underway in response to College of Business requests
        with pilot 294J for new course being taught this quarter (Doug,
        Elley; CC person: Sandy)
      - Change 221/222/321 and possibly 560/680, already underway with
      	proposers planning for Fall 1996 pilot of new 221 and Winter
      	1997 full conversion of 221 (Tim; CC person: Bruce)
      - Change descriptions of CIS 201 and 214, and content of CIS 214,
        to reflect new sources of students: CIS 200 and prerequisite for
        CIS 221 (Elley; CC person: Bruce)
      	
    Medium Priority (work this quarter as time permits; finish this year): 
      - Change 677 and introduce new networking courses (Raj, Mike, Steve,
      	Gojko; CC person: Kikuo)
      - Make 694E (Introduction to High Performance Computing) into
        a permanent course (Saday; CC person: no one yet)
      - Consider changes to operating systems courses and/or prerequisites
        (Anish; CC person: Anish)
      - Reconsider teaching load credit for CIS 360, 675.02 (Jay, Judy;
      	CC person: no one yet)
      - Look for upper division/graduate service course opportunities
        (CC person: Rohit)
      - Get Curriculum Committee information available on the web
        (CC person: Bruce, Rohit)
    
    Low Priority (work this quarter in background; try to do this year):
      - General clean-up in all official course descriptions, prerequisites,
      	etc. (CC person: Bruce)

    Wait for Charge from Undergraduate Studies Committee:
      - Revisit role of 676 (Bill; CC person: Bill)
      - Create course number for senior honors thesis work (Neelam;
        CC person: Bill)

    Wait for Charge from Department Chair
      - Revisit CIS course numbering (especially 500 vs. 600)