Curriculum Committee ("CC") Minutes for 10 October 1995

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Attending:  Fleming, Fujimura, Mamrak, Michaylov, Weide, Yeack

* Discussion of issues involved in setting up a permanent course
  on ethics/professionalism to meet accreditation requirements

  We discussed Ken's proposal for a permanent 1 credit hour course
  tentatively called "Social and Ethical Issues in Computing".  This
  course is needed for accreditation of the CSE program.  Issues
  raised included:
  - Which of our undergraduate programs will require it?
  - The proposed course is a discussion course with 20% of the grade
    based on classroom participation.  Is an enrollment limit of 25
    appropriate?  Is this too big for the instructor to get to know
    all the students, meeting only 1 hour a week, and for students to
    get a chance to participate?  Or is this too small to be economical;
    in practice, what's the difference between 25 and 40 students in
    what is nominally a "discussion"?
  - Is the course appropriate for graduate credit?  Should it have
    a 600 number then?  How about 590 or 690?
  CC will consider these questions off-line during the coming week and
  hopes to vote on a recommendation at the beginning of next week's
  meeting.
    
* Adjustment of individual assignments

  Some assignments posted earlier for CC members were adjusted.  Sandy will
  be the CC person responsible for the 101/211 changes; she will not be
  responsible for leading discussion of teaching loads as reported last
  week.  Bruce will now be responsible for general clean-up of course
  descriptions.
  
  Regarding teaching load credits, CC agreed to request that Stu set
  up an ad hoc loads committee ASAP.  It seems likely that the
  question of teaching load credits for courses with more than 3 student
  credit hours will be only one part of the equation.  We might also
  need to respond to PhD program review questions about other adjustments
  to the teaching load computations; this seems clearly outside the
  realm of the Curriculum Committee.
  
  
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Next meeting: Tuesday October 17, 12:30-1:30 in DL 698.


Respectfully submitted,

	Bruce W. Weide, CC Chair