Talk:Curriculum proposals
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Main Objection to Information Science Track - Jennifer
My main objection to the information science track is our expertise and the ability to educate the students about the connection between their cognate area and the CS/IS area. One other objection is us spreading ourselves to thin, how many other disciplines are we going to rely on for the quality and consistency of there courses. But back to my main point
One solution that has been proposed is a senior capstone.
We are capped at 40 credits and this probably will not allow a capstone, at least not within the next year. However if we have a capstone then each student would work on a project that made a connection between the CS/IS and the cognate area. In this method, I hope that it would be in a course format such that the students would present their finding and their projects over the time of the project (whether it be 1 semester or 2 semesters) and learn about other IS project between the disciplines. I would only find this is viable solution if the project required that it had to be based on their chosen cognate and CS/IS and the course attempted to educate the students about the connection.
According to our own rules we have specific requirements such as GPA, which would prevent some students from doing this. If we got rid of the GPA this would still give the “option” to do an elective rather than the independent study. This way the student who has selected IS and a cognate may never be shown the connection between the cognate and IS/CS. In my eyes this is a watered down CS degree that basically allowed them to choose a cognate (that they either thought was easy or something they were interested) but were never given the proper tools/education to actually use both of these things together.
So another option could be we offer courses that allow the connection
We have some knowledge that could get us through some cognates but not all, yes if we hired this is solved, but how can we realistically offer all of the cognate elective courses and how do we mandate that the course must be related to their cognate area (and oh goodness what would be the enrollment in such courses). This is to say that we have multiple cognates instead of 1 or 2. If we cannot offer classes that show and teach the connection between the cognate and CS/IS discipline then I in good conscious cannot support such a program. If we were to say yes to a cognate in biology, I think we should have biology related CS/IS course, one example could be Bio-Forensic. If we were to say yes to a cognate in Psychology, I think we should have a psychology related CS/IS course, one example could be HCI. But in the near future we would need to offer cognate areas that we can realistically teach a cognate IS course that would make the connection.
Micro Economics
Why would we require Micro Economics as opposed to Macro Economics? Could we say either Micro or Macro? Are either of these courses already pre-reqs to either BUAD 300 or BUAD 331?
Marsha
Solved the Micro and Macro and Stats Issue
I would love to include both but we are capped at 40 so I looked around and it seemed it didn't matter and no they are not pre-reqs, that I how I got Accounting 1 and 2, but I couldn't find a way to do both.
I would also like to add Math 200 but I don't know where to put it, it has no pre-reqs and I have already .....Hold on I just figured it out.....See Information System Discussion
