Subject: Curriculum Items
From: Mark Allen Weiss <weiss@cs.fiu.edu>
Date: 10/29/2011 2:45 PM
To: Nagarajan Prabakar <prabakar@cs.fiu.edu>

Prabu:

There are two issues left that I would like discussion one.  I think this really is it.

1. Adding an SIA course into the IT program, contingent on faculty hiring.
   Norman can explain better; this isn't really in our IT program.

System Integration and Architecture (SIA) . 21 core hours
SIA. Requirements
SIA. Acquisition and Sourcing
SIA. Integration and Deployment
SIA. Project Management
SIA. Testing and Quality Assurance
SIA. Organizational Context
SIA. Architecture


2. Discussions on Programming I & II on both the CS and IT side. For
   instance, COP-2210 has both lecture, lab, and help session. If we have
   lectures plus one meeting (either lab or help), we could do the same
   for Programming II.  The amount of hours that COP-2210 has seems to
   high for a four credit course.  Also, should Programming I just be done
   with day and night lecture, and similarly Prorgamming II, given that we
   have smaller lab/help session.  Same issues for COP-2250 and COP-3804.
   I am hard pressed to find another large program that offers seven
   separate lecture sections of a 2nd programming course and 8-9 separate
   lecture sections of an intro course.  Also, COP-3804 definitely needs a
   syllabus revision. It is not supposed to be the same as COP-3337.  It
   should formally include things more needed for IT majors (ie. not
   recursion, not linked list implementations, instead add maybe jdbc,
   sockets, or swing lectures), and if there is no SIA course, it must
   include some of the SIA topics.

--Mark