THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE FACULTY SENATE Senate Document Number 0898S Date of Senate Approval 1/22/98 Statement of Faculty Senate Action: APC Document 7: Modifications to Computer Science 121, 128, 201, 255, 434, and 448 Effective Date: Fall 1998 Add the following: 121 Networking and Hypertext (3) Design and development of networked hypertext documents such as Internet home pages. Digital representation of images and sound for computer documents. Search strategies for computer networks. Prerequisite: CSCI 107. Fall and Spring. Impact Statement: None Rationale: This course has now been offered six times under the CSCI 173, Special Topics, number and needs its own number. Delete on page 94 the title and course description for CSCI 128 Add to replace the deleted material the following: 128 Presentations with Computers (3) Design of effective presentations using computer software packages. Digitization of audio, images, and video. Introduction to presentation-related computer hardware, such as graphical adapters and scanners. Prerequisite: CSCI 107. See department chair. Impact Statement: None Rationale: The course title and description are clearly dated and need to be freshened. The course also needs a reasonable prerequisite. Add on page 94 to the end of the course description for CSCI 201, the following: Includes a formal laboratory section using program development tools. Impact statement: Presently we are offering four sections of CSCI 201 with three contact hours each. We plan to offer two large lecture sections of CSCI 201 with two contact hours each and four smaller formal labs with two contact hours. Thus the contact hours devoted to the course are unchanged. Rationale: The addition of a formal lab to CSCI 201 will aid the department in meeting the requirements of the Computer Science Accreditation Board (CSAB). The faculty teaching 201 also believe the formal lab will encourage interaction among students enrolled in the course and help those who were struggling by giving them a chance to get help from peers, thus increasing cooperative learning. Delete on page 94 from CSCI 255 course description the following: Prerequisite: CSCI 202 Add to the course description for CSCI 225 the following Prerequisite: CSCI 201 Impact Statement: None. Rationale: corrects prerequisite. Add 434 Automata Theory and Formal languages (3) A study of formal models of computation, grammars, and languages, including finite state machines, regular expressions, and Turing machines. Prerequisite: CSCI 202 and MATH 251. Even years spring. Impact Statement: This will be an additional course taught every two years. The staffing for the course will be obtained by teaching one fewer 300-level course in that term. The course can be taught by either Dean Brock in Computer Science or David Peifer in Mathematics. Rationale: The omission of a theoretical computer science course such as CSCI 434 from our offerings is unusual in our field. The material covered in this course is considered a necessary prerequisite for admission to graduate programs in computer science and also related to a significant portion of the questions of the subject area test in Computer Science of the Graduate Record Exam. The course should also appeal to some Mathematics students, and we hope that the Mathematics department will eventually cross-list it. Delete on page 95, the course description for CSCI 448 Add to replace the deleted section the following: Study of the management issues in the systems development process. Current topics of concern to information systems manager will be covered through instructor and guest lectures, journal readings, and directed research. Prerequisite: senior level standing in Computer Science. Fall. Impact Statement: None. Rationale: The change follows current practice in teaching and scheduling the course. Delete from CSCI 452 course description the offering schedule of "On demand". Add to CSCI 452 course descriptions, the offering schedule of "Odd years Spring." Impact statement: None Rationale: this is a significant course for students planning to attend graduate school. Giving it a regular semester will help students in developing long-term schedules.