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(11/02/09) TWO MEETINGS!
Monday, November 9, 3:00: Informal Discussion in 224MM
Monday, November 16, 10:30: Department Meeting in 224MM
(09/28/09) A survey form concerning the first three issues listed below was distributed. Response deadline: Friday, Oct 2
(09/16/09) The department meeting on September 18 will be mostly concerned with semester conversion. Food and drinks begin at 2:00. The meeting begins at 2:30. The semester conversion portion of the meeting will discuss
(09/03/09) There will be a departmental "retreat" on Friday afternoon, September 18. Details to follow!
(06/30/09) Thanks to all the workgroups for submitting reports as I requested! They varied from a couple paragraphs to "more than you would ever want to know". The reports inspired a major expansion of this web page so take another look at it. I have compiled much of what was submitted into the Course Inventory and Undergraduate Major Programs documents under Courses and Programs below. You can also look at the original reports under Documents and Links. I have also listed some Issues to think about over the summer.
Semester course numbers for service courses are now stable. Go ahead and use them as necessary.
Service Course Summary (PDF) Updated 10/20/09Should we teach these as a combined course or as separate courses for our own majors?
The advantages of a combined course would be that one course would be freed up to be used for another purpose, and that we would have the simplicity of one introductory differential equations course rather than two.
The advantages of separate courses would be that we can cover these topics in more depth for our majors, and continue to offer these as service courses for those programs using them (currently Physics, Computer Science, and Computer Engineering).
Should we continue to include a capstone course (i.e. Senior Seminar) as part of our degree programs?
If we do, should it continue to be a three-credit course? Will it need to be revised/rethought in order to be a sensible semester course? To what use will the additional 4/5 weeks be put?
Should we continue to require our majors to take a programming course?
If so, should a course in Mathematical Software or Scientific Computing satisfy this requirement?
Should graduate courses (700 and higher) be 3 credits or 4 credits?
Should we maintain courses that we in fact never teach in the course inventory?
Keep in mind that we will be teaching fewer courses under the semester system. If we never taught a course under quarters, it is doubly certain we will never teach it under semesters unless it becomes a required course or featured elective in a degree program.
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