UGC Meeting-6: 10/29/18 10:30am - noon ECS-349

Present: Bill, Erica, Pat, Prabu, Rick, Ruth, Tiana, Tim, Trevor

Agenda:

 * COP-3337 enrollment statistics (Bill Feild's email)
   (transfer students with different levels of programming experience)
   To validate the student preparedness for COP-3337,
     * a common (comparable level/material) final exam for all sections of COP-2210
       - All COP-2210 instructors need to involve in this exam preparation
       and meet with COP-3337 instructors for relevant feedback.
       - Associate Dir & Asst. Dir ensure that all instructors follow
        the course outcomes in the course delivery.
	
     * all transfer students need to take a similar exam before admitted to COP-3337/COP-3804. 
     * Choose textbooks that have problem solving approaches (e.g. Walter Savitch)
     * Identify video collections on critical thinking from lynda.com
       e.g. https://www.edx.org/course/logic-and-computational-thinking-1 

   - review once-a-year Panthersoft course equivalencies(C, C++, Python, etc.)
      using the transfer students' performance statistics in COP-3337

 * Discussion on the class size changes (subcommittee recommendations - Tim)
   Programming courses: does not include adequate problem solving experience (critical thinking skills)
   This will be addressed at a later time after data collection.  
      
      
Ref: https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~prabakar/ugc/2018-19/f


Next UGC meeting: Mon, 11/5/18 10:30am-noon in ECS-235