SENATE DOCUMENT #26

                        APC Document #18



The Academic Policies Committee recommends to the Faculty Senate the
adoption of the following catalog changes:

CATALOG REVISIONS

p. 162

Delete the non-departmental classification, Computer Resources.

Place the course Computing System Resources in the Computer Sciences 
classification as Computer Sciences 100, Computer Systems Resources,
and renumber the existing Computer Sciences 100, Interactive Computing,
as Computer Sciences 120.

Rationale:
The classification Computer Resources was established prior to the
existence of the Computer Sciences classification, and is now redundant.


p. 162-3

Change the prerequisite for Computer Sciences 143, Elementary Programming-
Data Processing Applications to:

     Mathematics 100 and Computer Sciences 100 (Computing System
     Resources) or equivalents.

Rationale:
A considerable part of the introductory programming courses is taken up
with the material included in the Computer Systems Resources course.  
Many students taking their first (and only) computer science course
require the content of the Computer Systems Resources course rather than
the more intensive work in programming provided in Computer Science 143
and Mathematics 141.  Information from Shelloy and Cashman, educational
consultants specializing in computer related education, indicates an
average attrition rate nationwide of fifty percent for introductory
computer courses.  This is approximately the experience at UNC-Asheville.
A one credit hour course would accomplish this screening process with a
greatly reduced expenditure of student, faculty, and computer resources.


p. 130:

Change the prerequisite for Mathematics 141, Elementary Computer Programming
to:

    Mathematics 100 and Computer Sciences 100 or equivalents.

Rationale:
The rationale for this change is the same as that given for the change in
Computer Science 143 prerequisites.


(Passed Faculty Senate February 9, 1979)