Undergrad (UG)s committee David Feil-Seifer (also on college committee) Monica Nicolescu Ming Li Lei Yang Dongfang Zhao Sushil Louis (Chair)

Including these slides Undergrad committee http://www.cse.unr.edu/~sushil/admin/ugrad/ Including these slides

Items New “C or better” in all required courses needs “gradual” updates to course descriptions (DFS) Getting CCCC approval

Items Big Data/Data science minor CA schools transfer agreements Lei, Feng are making progress CA schools transfer agreements TBDC Math 301 / CS 365 Undergrad committee unanimously passed this on Nov 4, 2016 Now to C*C*C*C, Ivy, and catalog Recent Issues CS219 pre-req for CPE301, CS302 ENG300 as a co-req for CS446

Items CS for engineers CS for all Meeting with ME soon Will Dean support resources when needed?

CS0 CS 0 for all (committee has not finished discussion) Possible Pros: More TAs, More Lecturers, More research time, 2+1  1 + 1 Cons No TAs, No Lecturers Consider morphing CS105 into CS 0. But need data What computing should UNR under-graduates know when they graduate? Programming (scratch?), Simple databases like Access or Google’s tables, Spreadsheets and Macros, Security essentials, material from current CS105 … ? Can we do a survey of faculty, alumni, students, … ? Should be part of Silver Core, required for all?

CS0 CS105: Half and half course CS0 Current core objectives plus core science CS0 Must be part of the core curriculum Design, group design, design thinking Large multi-week project versus smaller projects Careers: Computing in Art, in X Survey of how embedded computing is in the modern world Ethics, law, policy Implications: How does computing relate to the modern world ? Privacy, Big data, security, AI, networks, … Future predictions Algorithms/Programming/Software/Scratch/Mobile Computing concepts Architecture Number systems Logic