Curriculum Committee ("CC") Minutes for 24 January 1995

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Attending:  Fujimura, Kerr, Parent, Perlman, Soundararajan, Weide, Winters,
Yagel, Yeack, Zhao


1. Discussion of proposed updates to the computer graphics courses
  
   Roni presented his ad hoc subcommittee's answers to the questions
   asked last week about a proposal to update the official descriptions and
   syllabi for CIS 681, 781, 782, and 783, including increasing 681 and 781
   from 3 credit hours to 4.  The proposed changes were then unanimously
   approved by CC.  Roni and Bruce will work with Deanna to prepare the
   paperwork, and faculty approval will be sought at the next faculty meeting.
   
2. Discussion of how to address faculty directive to explore a 2-credit-hour
   459-like C++ course with no C prerequisite
   
   CC agreed that the appropriate course of action is to ask Neelam to
   further develop his initial proposal for a 3 credit hour upper division
   course on Object-Oriented Programming.  Once this is on the
   table, we will revisit the question of the 2 credit hour course
   discussed at the January 9 faculty meeting.
   
3. Discussion of possible withdrawal of several courses not recently
   taught and unlikely to be taught in the foreseeable future (new business
   item not on agenda)
   
   Cheryl reported that there are several such courses (e.g., 459.11 "PL/1",
   548 "Computer Science for High School Teachers", 615 "Arithmetic
   Algorithms", 715-716-717 "Algebraic Algorithms I-II-III", 726
   "Introduction to Automata and Language Theory", 886 "Introduction to
   Doctoral Studies") which are still in the official course offerings book.
   CC agreed that Cheryl will check the dates of last offering of these
   courses and will report results to CC and to cis.committee.curriculum.
   CC will then consider withdrawal of any courses whose listing gives
   students a false impression about actual CIS course offerings. 
   
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Next meeting: Tuesday, 7 February 1995, 10:30-11:20 AM, in DL 698.


Respectfully submitted,

	Bruce W. Weide, CC Chair