THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE

                         FACULTY SENATE 


                   Senate Document Number    2694S 

                 Date of Senate Approval     3/10/94


 
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   Statement of Faculty Senate Action:

   APC Document #27:  New Computer Science courses Effective date:  Fall 1994


   Add CSCI 345

   Proposed title and description Object Technology (3) Emphasis on object
   technology concepts and design.  In addition, a few programming applications
   will be developed in an object-oriented language.  Course offered on demand.

   Impact Statement There will be no change in staffing or curricular
   requirements.  Each of the last two Spring semesters, this course has been
   offered as a Special Topics course in computer science.  An average of
   twenty students have enrolled in each of these offerings. 

   Rationale Object technology is a significant system development methodology
   which has been used in many impressive software development efforts.  We
   believe that it is imperative that we offer our students the opportunity to
   learn about this technique for system development.


   Add CSCI 361 and CSCI 363

   Proposed titles and descriptions CSCI 361 Data Communications (3)
   Hardware-oriented aspect of data communications and computer networking. 
   Transmission media, data encoding, error correction, flow control, and
   performance analysis.  Prerequisite:  CSCI 254.  Offered Fall of
   even-numbered years.

   CSCI 363 Computing Networking (3) Software-oriented aspect of data
   communications and computer networking.  Internetworking, session control,
   application programmer interfaces, common network applications. 
   Prerequisite:  CSCI 254.  Offered Fall of odd-numbered years.

   Impact statement There will be no change in staffing or curricular
   requirements,  A course in data communications or computer networking has
   been offered as Special Topics in the Fall of the last three years.  An
   average of 25 students have enrolled for each of these offerings.


   Rationale Data communications have become a significant area for computer
   science.  The high and steady enrollment in the Special Topics courses in
   this area demonstrate the strong student interest in the subject.