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Senate
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Jonathan Driver, Dean of Graduate Studies
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Faculty of Applied Sciences: Curriculum changes (GS2007.40)
CC W. Parkhouse; F. Popowich
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DATE Februar y
11. 2008
TIME 12:02 PM
For information
MEMO
Dean of
Graduate Studies
STREET ADDRESS
Maggie Benston Student
Services Centre 1100
Burnaby BC V5A 1A6
Canada
At its
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9,h November 2007 meeting, Senate Graduate Studies
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Committee approved the curriculum and calendar changes of the
School of
Computing Science
in the Faculty of Applied Sciences:
a)
Breadth and course requirements
Calendar description changes for the M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs
Rationale: To
reflect internal and external competitiveness, possibility and flexibility
b)
New course proposals:
CMPT 711-3 Bioinformatics algorithms
CMPT 726-3 Machine learning
Rationale:
These replace CMPT 881 and CMPT 720 which were required courses
for the SFU-UBC Bioinformatics program.
c)
Minor course changes: (title and/or description changes)
CMPT 777-3 Formal verification
CMPT 730-3 Programming languages
CMPT 721-3 Knowledge representation and reasoning
CMPT 741-3 Data mining
CMPT 888-3 Special topics in computer graphics, HCl, vision and visualization
CMPT 891-3 Advanced seminar
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d)
Course deletions
CMPT 706-3, 720-3, 750-3, 817-3, 852-3, 853-3, 883-3, 887-3
Rationale:
Not offered recently nor
in
the near future
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Senators wishing to consult the documents concerning these items should contact Bobbie
Grant,
Senate Assistant (bgrant@sfu.ca
or 604.291.3168)
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