UGC Meeting-14: 2/20/20 10:30am - 12:30pm CASE-349

Present: Bill, Prabu, Rick, Tiana 
Schedule conflict: Erica, Tim, Trevor

Agenda:
  - Two-year BS-CS assessment review  (revisit)
    
  - Review new course proposal draft on Modeling & Simulation
  
  - Review COP-2210 Lab syllabus
  
  - Revise COP-4722 (Survey of DB Systems)
  
  - ? Python as first programming course (for IT)
  
 Ref: https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~prabakar/ugc/2019-20/n/
https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~prabakar/ugc/2019-20/CS_Assessment/


Next meeting: Tue, March 3rd 10:30am - noon, CASE-349


Curriculum action items:
  - Mark Finalyson
     * CAP 4630 Artificial intelligence
       UGC suggests the SAC to revise the syllabus and include learning outcomes in consultation with faculty who teach the course.
       
  - Richard Whittaker
     * CGS 3095 Technology in the Global Arena
       UGC suggests the SAC to revise the syllabus and include learning outcomes in consultation with faculty who teach the course.

  - Nagarajan Prabakar
     * COP 4722 Survey of Database Systems
       Revise the syllabus (catalog description, course outcomes and learning outcomes for this course.
       
  - Xudong He
     * COP 4534 Algorithm Techniques
       UGC recommends SAC to consider adding (STA-3033 or MAD-4203) as an additional prerequisite.
       
     * COP 4555 Programming Languages
       UGC recommends SAC to add CDA-3102 as an additional prerequisite so that students would have exposure to computer architecture.
         
  - Tim Downey
     * COP 4226 Adv Windows Programming
       UGC recommends adding learning outcomes in the syllabus to help instructors to understand the coverage of each topic in particular for database connectivity.
       
     * COP 4338 Systems Programming
       UGC recommends adding learning outcomes in the syllabus to help instructors to understand the coverage of each topic.
       
  - Masoud Sadjadi
     * CEN 4010 Software Enginnering I
       UGC recommends adding learning outcomes in the syllabus, and to include UML in the learning outcomes.
     
     * CEN 4021 Software Engineering II
       UGC recommends adding learning outcomes in the syllabus to help instructors to understand the coverage of each topic.    

     * CEN 4072 
       UGC recommends the SAC to revise the syllabus with the recommendations of the SAC.
       
  - UGC Chair
     * Add MAS-3105 Linear Algebra as a Foundations elective course.

     * New course 
       CIS-1XXX 0-credit Internship for Teaching Computational Thinking in 9-12 [Cristy Charters]
       
     * New course
       COP-2210L Computer Programming I - Lab [Cristy Charters]
       
     * Course change
       COP-2210 Learning outcomes...
       
     * New course
       CEN-4XXX Modeling & Simulation [Bill Feild]