CIS UCPC: Information for Advisors

Requirements for Technical Electives

Faculty wishing to have a course approved as a technical elective should submit a proposal to the UCPC in the semester prior to the course offering. The UCPC has established the following minimal requirements for a technical elective proposal:
  1. The proposal should clearly list learning objectives.
  2. The proposal should provide evidence that there is assessment of the learning objectives; assessment could include midterm and final exams related to the learning objectives.
  3. The course should have smaller-interval (at least 4 per semester) work/grading/feedback cycles --- not just feedback on a project at the end of the semester. For example: regular homework assignments, or project with multiple checkpoints/milestones relating to the learning objectives.
  4. Technical requirement: the proposal should provide evidence that at least 50% of the course content derives from topics in the ACM Body of Knowledge.
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