|
| Time
| Main Topic
| Starting Activities/Questions
| Links
|
Day 1: Theme: Feedback from Interviews and Surveys
| 9:00
| Review of department activities, goals, and priorities
|
- Review goals of this workshop
- Clarify workshop products (e.g., report) and audiences (e.g.,
CS faculty, Dean's Office, other faculty, NCA)
- Review agenda
|
|
| 9:30
| Departmental activities and organization
|
- Develop a list of various jobs and activities in the department
- Review who does what
|
|
| 10:00
| Exit Interviews
|
- Reporting of responses from 2013 exit interviews
- What themes can we identify?
|
|
| 11:50
| Announcements
|
- Change in format/approach for CS2013 template spreadsheet
- Reminder: Need nominations for students for Iowa Women of Innovation
- Schedule for Iowa Private College Week: August 5-9; tours of
Science building in morning and afternoon daily
- Screening of Codebreaker film scheduled for Friday, October 11, at
7:00 pm;
how to organize question and answer session
- Contributions for CS Computer Museum
- from Nathaniel Borenstein
- from Bob Cadmus
- Admission talk on CS on July 24 at 10:00
- Feedback welcome on Noyce
Fun Facts for Admission
|
|
| Homework
| Review alumni/ae surveys from 2008-2010
| Identify themes, highlights
| Distributed by Sam via email
|
| Day 2: Theme: Review of Current Course Content
| 9:00
| Themes from Exit Interviews and Alumni Surveys
|
- What themes can we identify from exit interviews and alumni surveys
- What topics do we seem to be covering well?
- What new or different topics should we consider?
- What additional themes do alumni suggest?
| Notes from Wednesday's discussion
|
| 9:30
| Mapping Grinnell's curriculum to CS2013
|
- General review of all courses
- Detailed work on CS2013 spreadsheet
- Review of draft CS2013 spreadsheet
|
|
| Working Lunch
| Email on MathLAN
| Discussion of Policies, Procedures, Adjustments
| —
|
| Bulletin boards
|
-
What needs to be displayed (departmental materials,
SEPC, announcements, posters, others?)
-
How much space is really needed?
-
Constraints
-
Options
| —
| |
| Academic Honesty policies and practices
|
- What practices do we follow?
- What recent issues have we encountered?
- How should we handle citation of individual versus collaborative
procedures?
- How can we clarify and enforce rules for individual work on
assignments?
- How can we distinguish between rules for labs and rules for other
activities (when we want to make those distinctions)?
- Do we/should we have concerns related to contract cheating?
|
|
|
| Additional Topics as Time Permits
|
- Status of tutors, mentors, assistants for 2013-2014
- Schedule for LACS
- Regularizing Computer Vision course
- Hanging new art work
- Possible use of ACM authorize option for published-paper access
- Ongoing discussion of helping students feel/be included in group
work
|
- Academic Honesty statements for various courses
|
| Homework
| Continue work on CS2013 Spreadsheet
| Full review of courses will likely continue through the
2013-2014 academic year
| Send Henry spreadsheet entries for courses, as they become available
|
Day 3: Theme: Possible New Directions
| 9:00
| Projects in the CS Curriculum
|
- Should projects span over 2 semesters?
- Should projects be 2 credits/semester or 4 credits?
- Should projects extend over multiple semesters with multiple groups?
- Should MAPs be allowed to count toward the project requirement?
| —
| 10:00
| The major requirement in systems
|
- Should there be a 1-semester systems course introducing concepts of
both architecture and operating systems?
- Should concurrency be a separate 2- or 4-credit course?
- Where might issues of networking fit within the systems
requirement?
- Where might issues of security fit within the systems
requirement?
| —
| 11:00
| The major requirement for languages
|
- What are our goals for our language requirement?
- How much formalism should be included?
- Should scripting languages have a more central role?
- Should event-driven problem solving be emphasized somewhere?
- Should parallel languages be emphasized?
| —
| 11:30
| Identification of next steps
|
- What, if any, changes do we want to make short term? long-term?
- Are there areas for which we need additional discussion?
- Who wants to do what?
| —
|