Minutes of Teaching Committee Meeting of 99-03-12

1. Agenda formation:
   The following items were identified as needing consideration:
   • thesis arrangements for next year (there are going to be very large numbers of thesis students)
   • awards for students - possibility of Dean's list or equivalent
   • proposal to have an Advanced Science (CS) programme giving direct entry to the honours course
   • advanced programmes/subjects for high UAI students in CS/CE
   • proposal to introduce a subject COMP1091 (C) = COMP1011 with C, intended for Engineering students and good Science students (e.g. maths)
   • joint degrees BSc(CS)/BE
   • resources for innovative teaching
   • reviews for new/pilot subjects (e.g. COMP4011, COMP4012)
   • provision of summer subjects
2. Course revision:
   The meeting considered the current drafts of the revisions for CE and SE, and heard a report from John Shepherd on the status of CS revision.

   The following recommendations were made:

   • CE: replace ACCT9003 in Y2 with a management subject
   • CE: avoid problem with 3 cu too many in Y3:s1 by replacing the math requirement with {either MATH3590 or MATH3150 or a new 3 cu Algorithms subject}
   • CE: avoid problem with imbalance of cu between s1 and s2 in Y3 by reducing COMP4910 to 3 cu and adding a dummy subject called Thesis part C in second session.
   • SE: accept the revision by Ken and others - there was debate about whether MATH1091 Discrete Maths for EE should be accepted in first year along with Maths 1A + Maths 1B, or whether maths should be approached to offer a combined Maths1AB (at 22.5 cp or 9 cu) and ask SE students to do full MATH1081.
3. Teaching allocation:
   A number of suggestions and corrections were made to the rough draft circulated at the meeting. A further (closed) meeting of the Teaching Committee on 99-03-19 will continue to consider the 99s2 allocation.

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