UGC Meeting-16: 4/17/19 10:30am - 12:00pm CASE-235

Present: Bill, Pat, Prabu, Rick, Trevor, Erica

agenda for the meeting:
  - Finalize Program objectives for BA-in-CS
      * Modified the BS-in-CS Program objectives to facilitate the BA.
      
  - CS elective group for each of the new courses proposed in Fall'18
      Ref: https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~prabakar/ugc/2018-19/h/NewCourses/
        *CAP 4XXX Practical Machine Learning (not for CS majors)
	     - not to be included in CS elective groups
        *CTS 4XXX Enterprise IT Troubleshooting (?Prereq IT courses)
	     - after creating a new security course for CS,
	      this course may be added to CS Systems elective group
	      with the prereq change as
	       (COP-4703 or COP-4710) and (CNT-4403 or NewCSsecurityCourse or EEL-4806)
	*CAP 4612 Introduction to Machine Learning (?Applications group)
	http://www4.cis.fiu.edu/courses/Syllabi/CAP_4612.pdf
	   - To be included in Applications elective group

  - Review programming course sequence and
      create a list of action items (prereq topics, lab sessions, common final, etc.)
      To raise the quality of programming skills for CS graduates,
       * implement common final exam for COP-2210 as pilot
       * Develop a detailed learning outcomes for COP-2210 and COP-3337
          similar to COT-3100(Discrete Structures) and CTS-4XXX (Ent IT Adv Troubleshooting)
       * For 0-credit lab for programming courses,
          - students have to enroll in a lab session
          - the student participation in lab sessions needs to be communicated 
  	    to the instructors by the TAs. (attendance & participation grade)
	  - UGC suggests to use a tool (through senior project) for students
 	    to select tutoring/recitation sessions
	    and tutors/TAs to report students' participation.
       * All these suggested ideas need to be in operation at the start of Fall 2020.
       
  - Review contents of COP-4338 (Systems Programming)  and COP-4610 (Operating Systems)
       * This item requires careful consideration of topics (C, dynamic prog, pointers, unix, process fork, thread)
       * consider creating a new required course that includes unix, dynamic prog, cloud applications) with COP-3337 as prereq; this course would be a prereq to COP-4338.
       
Next meeting: Fall 2019