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This is the internal web area for CS Program Convenors and Directors to record policies, current issues, tasks and `know-how' related to our degree programs. Working documents may also be recorded here. It is specifically to record information that anyone acting the the role of convenor (including someone temporarily assuming the role) needs to know, particularly if it is not available on the corresponding degree's open web pages. The aim is to enhance transparency and consistency in associated decision making, as well as facilitate sharing of the role.
Typical policies include: relaxing of requirements for admission, awarding of status from previous studies, exemptions from core courses (e.g.from previous studies), which elective courses may be counted to the degree, what exceptions may be made for awarding of degrees and majors/specializations/minors?
General policies:
- VCUG3001 Unravelling Complexity may be counted as a COMP course in all degrees (PS 02/12)
Program-related pages
Advanced Standing
Advanced Standings Information
This page is for information on established advanced standings arrangements that Program Convenors may need to know about (e.g. to advise/check enrolments). Note that for the 2-way arrangements, the enrolment patterns may be highly constrained as students must also fulfil the requirements of their original degree.
General Status Determinations
See the CECS page for durations from various polytechnics. These need revision in some cases.
Beijing Institute of Technology (2-way)
Advanced Standing for BAC and BSEng (08/11)
Enrolment Patterns for BAC and BSEng (08/11)
Canberra Institute of Technology
The following were determined in Jan 2010 (PS) for the following specializations in the CIT Diploma in Information Technology:
- Software Development:
0.5 yrs standing - COMP1100, COMP1710, 12u 1000-level electives
1.0 yrs standing - COMP1100, COMP1710, COMP1110/1510, COMP1510, COMP2400, 24u 1000-level electives - General, Website Development:
COMP1100, COMP1710, COMP2400, 6u 1000-level electives - Networking, Systems Administration:
COMP2410, 18u 1000-level electives - Multimedia:
COMP1100, COMP1710, 12u 1000-level electives - Database Design and Development, Systems Analysis and Design
COMP1100, COMP2400, 12u 1000-level electives
See articulation of Associate Degree Specialising in Engineering for status for that degree.
Academy of Interactive Entertainment
Status for Advanced Diploma in Professional Games Development:
COMP1100, COMP1710, COMP1110/1510, COMP1710, COMP2100/2500, 12 1000-level electives, 12u 2000-level electives
Neusoft Dalian
2+2 standings for BAC and BSEng (12/12)
Bachelor of Advanced Computing
Bachelor of Advanced Computing Convenor's page
Resources
Tasks
(PS 01/12)
- enrolment advice to students. Typically before start of semester.
- other advice to students.
- oversee running of BAC-specific courses (currently COMP1130/40)
- attend 1st lecture comp1130 - give an overview of degree and put the `advanced computing' parts into perspective (avoid the panic of 2012)
- prepare BAC(R&D) specific courses
- liase with academics involved with interdisciplinary courses in the majors; check studyat for changes in scheduling, prereqs
- review and if needed maintain program rules
- assist with the marketing of the degree
- write/review documents referring to the degree
Issues
- enrolment in CBE courses STAT1003 and MGMT3027 is current tedious; seeking blocks of permission codes (PS 02//13)
- enrolment patterns for fulfilling the majors is complex and basically needs to be customized for each student
- more needs to be done to foster interactions between BAC students (e.g. lunches)
Policies
- Relaxing of requirements for admission.
Handled currently by Student Services. (PS 01/12) - Awarding of status from previous studies.
As per normal. COMP1130/40 are problematic in that the `Advanced Computing' component is unlikely to be covered elsewhere. (PS 01/12) - Exemptions from core courses.
So far, none. (PS 01/12) - Which elective courses may be counted?
Any allowed by the rules. COMP2400 to be encouraged. (PS 01/12) - What exceptions may be made for awarding of degrees and majors/specializations/minors?
So far, none. (PS 01/12)- STAT1003 and STAT2001 are considered equivalent.(PS 01/12)
- STAT1003 and STAT1008 also - but discourage unless really needed (PS 01/13)
- Flexibility in the Fulfilment of Majors:
a lternate courses may be approved, provided it is consisent with the `spirit' of the major, e.g. in the Computational Foundations major, any of the other MATH courses listed may be substituted for MATH2301.(PS 02/13) - Changes to the Majors:
the essential characteristic of the BAC majors is that students must complete at least one course offered outside RSCS, in order to gain an interdisciplinary perspective. Provided this is kept, suggestions from the respective Research Groups are encouraged (PS 02/13)
Bachelor of Information Technolog
no content to carry over
Bachelor of Software Engineering
no content to carry over
Masters
Masters Convenors page
Resources
- student pages
- The Masters Convenors notes (12/08) give a reasonably comprehensive guide to the main convenor tasks and policies. Most notes are still applicable.
Tasks
Issues
Some notes from enrolment day, 16 February 2012 (Peter Christen):
- Nearly half of the students arrived without any idea about what courses to take, and only some of them had an idea of what direction (specialisation) they were interested in.
A suggestion is to compile a handout which we can send to students which summarises each specialisation, and also proposes a suggested enrolment pattern (which needs to be updated every year according to courses offered). - Offering specialisations with only a very small number of courses (one per semester) is not good. I had one student who was really disappointed that most courses in Computer Systems were not offered in 2012. The new 2-years Masters program should improve upon this.
- The most common questions were:
- What (programming) language is used in this course?
- I want to do a course with X. (X=Java, C#, etc.)
- How much programming do I have to do in this course?
Mentioning programming languages etc. in course outlines would therefore be useful.
Policies
- Enrolment in MCOMP Project courses
As these all require departmental permission to enroll, these should not be written the Student Enrolment forms when students arrive at ANU. (PS 01/12) - Relaxing of requirements for admission
- MCOMP H: has no Admission Requirements on StudyAT!! For students MCOMP H after the MCOMP, we should require a Distinction average (possibly relax to high credit). Note that we had a significant number of sub-standard MCOMP H students in 2011 who had Credit averages for the MCOMP. (PS 01/12)
- Awarding of status from previous studies.
- Exemptions from core courses.
- Which elective courses may be counted?
- What exceptions may be made for awarding of degrees and majors/specializations/minors?
Honours
Honours Convenors (undergraduate and postgraduate page
Resources
Tasks
Issues
- Selection of examiners: workloads, knowledge of area, predisposition to mark too leniently or severely
Policies
- Relaxing of requirements for admission.
- Awarding of status from previous studies. Generally not done.
- Which courses may be counted? See the Honours students pages. These imply COMP6XXX courses double-badged with COMP2XXX or below courses are not acceptable. In 2011, COMP6341 was felt to be a borderline case, requiring extra assessment to bring up to Honours standard (PS 01/12).
- Plagiarism in Thesis Writeup. In a recent case where it occurred in the Background chapter, the student was made to properly cite the references and resubmit (PS 01/12).
- Selection of examiners
CS Projects
CS Projects Co-ordinator page
Resources
Tasks
Issues
- Student web pages. These are on /cs/pub/Student/projects, with pages likely to be edited by multiple people made group-writeable. A transition to the new RSCS web page area should be considered.
- The minimum degree of participation in the Practice Sessions will be mandatory policy will be difficult to enforce from 2012, due to changes in the ANU policy. (PS 01/12)
- `Imbalance' of students wishing to do projects in a particular area, creating extra supervisory loads on academics,
- Selection of examiners: workloads, knowledge of area, predisposition to mark too leniently or severely.
- Inappropriate selection of project topics for COMP87*0 courses. Students wish to nominate a particular MCOMP Specialization may want to do a project that is not appropriate. Hence their nomination of a COMP87*0 course needs to be carefully checked. (PS 01/12)
Policies (specific)
- Enrolment in COMP3750/60.
This should be discouraged unless really essential to get a Major under old (2009 and before) BIT rules. COMP3740 should be used instead.(PS 01/12) - Relaxing of Project Course Prerequisites.
COMP3740 - should be no need to relax. COMP87*0 courses normally taken in 2nd semester of study by MCOMP students.(PS 01/12) - Enrolment in project courses
Students should negotiate supervisor and topic, and submit an Independent Study Contract. When approved, the Co-ordinator gives requests a Permission Code to be sent to the student. Ideally this happens by week 2. (PS 01/12)
Curriculum Development Committee
Date | Documents | Date | Documents |
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12-03-2015 | Agenda, Minutes, Misc Docs | 26-05-2015 | Agenda, Minutes, Misc Docs |
06-08-2015 | Agenda, Minutes, Misc Docs | 24-09-2015 | Agenda, Minutes, Misc Docs |
29-10-2015 | Out of session docs | 25-02-2016 | Agenda, Minutes |
24-03-2016 | Agenda | 14-04-2016 | Agenda, Minutes, Misc Docs |
29-04-2016 | Minutes, Minutes Extension | 30-06-2016 | Agenda, Misc Docs |
08-09-2016 |
Meeting details for S2, 2016
Date | Time | Location |
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08-09-2016 | 12-2pm | B123 |
20-10-2016 | 12-2pm | B123 |
Student Representative Committee
- Course reps, S1, 2016
- Course reps, S2, 2016
- Course rep lecture slides 2016
- Course reps communications training manual 2016
Meeting details for S2, 2016
Date | Time | Location |
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25-08-2016 | 11:30am - 1pm | N101 |
29-09-2016 | 11:30am - 1pm | N101 |
21-10-2016 | 11:30am - 1pm | N101 |
Course Convenors
Date | Documents | Date | Documents |
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28-08-2014 | Agenda, Minutes, Misc Docs | 16-10-2014 | Minutes |
07-05-2015 | Agenda, Minutes | 28-08-2015 | Agenda, Minutes, Misc Docs |
09-10-2015 | Agenda, Minutes | 03-03-2016 | Agenda, Minutes |
31-03-2016 | Agenda, Minutes, Misc Docs | 12-05-2016 | Agenda, Minutes |
04-08-2016 | Agenda, Minutes | 01-09-2016 | Agenda |
Meeting details for S2, 2016
Date | Time | Location |
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14-08-2016 | 12:30-2pm | N101 |
01-09-2016 | 12:30-2pm | N101 |
13-10-2016 | 12:30-2pm | N101 |
Examiners
Meeting details for S2, 2016
Date | Time | Location | Category |
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21-11-2016 | 9:30-12:30 | N101 | Honours |
22-11-2016 | 10-11 | N101 | Projects |
22-11-2016 | 11-12:30 | N101 | 1000/2000 courses |
22-11-2016 | 1:30-3 | N101 | 3000/4000 courses |
22-11-2016 | 3-4 | N101 | 6000/7000/8000 courses |
This page contains course and program review information.
Course Review
It is expected that at least one course will be externally reviewed and at least one course peer-reviewed each semester. Note that the courses are reviewed in the semester following the one in which they were actually offered.
External Review
Review reports
Year | Semester 1 | Semester 2 |
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2014 | COMP3600 | COMP2100/2500/6442 |
2015 | COMP1730 | COMP4130 |
2016 | COMP3900 |
Peer Review
Review reports
Year | Semester 1 | Semester 2 |
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2015 | COMP2300, COMP6700, COMP8100 | |
2016 | COMP1730, COMP3100, COMP3610, COMP8705 |
Program Review
Year | Program |
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2013-2016 | Revisions to Undergraduate Programs |
2016 | MComp ToR (draft) |
Accreditation Resources
ACS Accreditation
2013
- main application (includes Appendixes A-E)
- annex (course descriptions)
- visit schedule
- accreditation report and recommendations
2016
EA Accreditation
2015
2016