Curriculum Committee ("CC") Minutes for 3 October 1995

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Attending:  Arora, Fleming, Fujimura, Goyal, Ogden, Weide, Yeack

* Discussion of additions to annual agenda

  - Changing teaching load credit for CIS 360 from 1.00 to 1.33?
  
    The Curriculum Committee responsibilities include review of
    teaching load credits for courses.  This question, however,
    raises two more general issues: (1) Given that a few courses
    now have teaching load credit of 1.33 (321, 516, 560, 758),
    should we simply go back to teaching load credits equal to
    course credit hours? (2) Should we re-examine course credit hours
    for all CIS courses?  In her absence, CC agreed that Sandy
    should be the CC person to lead discussion of these issues
    at a future meeting.  This is a medium-priority item on
    the CC agenda for this year, with the minimum objective of
    settling the teaching load question for 360 soon.  (Also
    in question: 657.02, which is 4 credit hours.)
    
    CC also agreed that the general question of teaching load
    computation -- which might come up again as a result of comments
    arising from the PhD program review -- should NOT be a CC issue,
    since it involves all manner of things unrelated to curriculum.
    
  - Making CIS 694E (Introduction to High Performance Computing) into
    a permanent course?
    
    Saday wanted this item added as a medium priority, and will
    provide answers to the new course questionnaire and a proposed
    syllabus in order to get on the agenda.  Kikuo volunteered to
    be the CC liaison for this topic.
    
  - Looking for opportunities to offer upper division/graduate service
    courses on various aspects of computing to students from other
    departments?
    
    The 694E item raises the question whether we have other opportunities
    to offer needed service courses to grad students from other
    departments.  Pending his official appointment as grad student rep
    to CC, Rohit offered to try to identify other areas of potential
    demand where we could provide service courses to non-CIS grad students.
    If such areas are discovered, CC will ask the relevant faculty to
    take a close look.
    
* Discussion of issues involved in setting up a permanent course
  on ethics/professionalism to meet accreditation requirements

  Due to miscommunication between Bruce and Ken, we did not manage
  to discuss this.  It will be on the agenda next week.
  
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Next meeting: Tuesday October 10, 12:30-1:30 in DL 698.


Respectfully submitted,

	Bruce W. Weide, CC Chair