The University of New South Wales
Notice of Meeting: CSE-EdC 16/3
A meeting of the Computer Science and Engineering Education Committee
will be held at 12pm Friday 8 July 2016
in room K17-103 (HoS Meeting Room).
Enquiries concerning this agenda should be directed to jas@cse.unsw.edu.au.
John Shepherd
Chair
Agenda
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Apologies and Welcome
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Minutes of Previous Meeting *
Not yet available
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Reports from Bodies outside CSE
John Shepherd will report on any interesting/relevant developments that have occurred in committees, working groups, etc. at UNSW.
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Accreditation Status
John Shepherd will describe the results of the accreditation process and what needs to be done to ensure future accreditations run smoothly.
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Course/Stream/Program Revisions
John Shepherd will describe all of the current proposals being herded through the various committees to bring in the new Core Syllabus, the new Security stream, address the accreditation requirements, and generally clean up the definitions of our programs/streams.
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Implementing the new Core Syllabus
Discussion on how to organise the development and delivery of the new core courses.
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Revising the Advanced Syllabus
Now that the content of the new Core is relatively stable, it is time to look at how it might impact later courses. Some initial ideas for a collection of advanced streams were floated at the the recent Academic Staff retreat. Discussion on how we might want to restructure our advanced offerings to modernise, streamline, broaden/narrow them.
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CATEI Results for 16s1
CSE's CATEI results this semester were (on average) worse than previous semesters. Discussion on why, and how we can fix it for 16s2.
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New Assessment Schema for 4th Year Theses
Helen Paik will present a new assessment scheme for 4th-year theses, based on the Faculty Thesis Working Group and her own research on how theses are assessed elsewhere.
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Course Revision: COMP9444 Neural Networks
Alan Blair is proposing to revive and update the contents of the COMP9444 Neural Networks course, which has been dormant for several years.
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2025 Strategy: New Term Timetable
UNSW is finally making some progress on a settling on the shape of its "trimester model". Concensus is starting to emerge around the "Stanford model", which involves three terms in (roughly) Feb-May, Jun-Aug, Sep-Dec.
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For noting: Conduct of CSE Courses
One point that was noted in the accreditation was the wide variation in Course Outlines for CSE courses. In a similar vein, how issues like plagiarism, special consideration, supplementary exams are handled across courses seems to vary a little from course to course. An informal working group (John Shepherd, Andrew Taylor, Gabi Keller, Kylie Wang) will produce some documentation and procedures to try clarify how things should be done, to reduce variation, and to provide online support to simplify these kinds of tasks.
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For noting: Cleaning the Handbook
The UNSW Handbook, and various other online sources such as the CSE website, refer to courses that have not been offered for several years and appear unlikely to be offered in the future. We plan to remove such courses from the Handbook for 2017 and clean up the other places where these courses are referenced. The courses will not be cancelled yet, unless the "owners" tell us that they do not intend to offer them again.
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For noting: 4-year Advanced Computer Science program
Owing to issues with the separate honours year (program 4515) on top of the 3978 program, and for various other reasons outlined in Brad Hall's submission to the 16/1 Education Committee meeting, we plan to introduce a new 4-year Computer Science program leading to an Honours-level degree. A proposal will be presented later in the year with the goal to introduce the program in 2018. The 4515 program will be retained to allow students from other institutions to transfer to CSE to do Honours.
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Any Other Business