CSC 350: Seminar 2: 0.5 hours

Description

Covers career searching, advanced CS topics including optimization, parallelism, and concurrency and recent topics of computing. Students will present their work to their peers. Guest speakers will also present. To be taken twice. Prerequisite: CSC 150.

Goals for CSC 350 are:

1. Get an overview of advanced computing topics
2. Further develop their career search skills
3. Further develop their learning skills

Course outcomes for CSC 350 are:

• Upon completion of CSC 350, students will understand:
  • how to prepare for entry into a career in computing
  • how to take quality notes
  • how to respond to a quality presentation
  • how to make quality presentations

Program outcomes for CSC 350 are:

1. Communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts. (Computing student learning outcome 3)
2. Recognize professional responsibilities and make informed judgments in computing practice based on legal, ethical, and moral principles. (Computing student learning outcome 4)
3. Learn new areas of technology. (Computing student learning outcome 6)
4. Use technology to help bring Christ to the world and apply Christian principles to their work. (Computing student learning outcome 7)
5. Understand and use appropriate cloud technologies in specified areas (Computing student learning outcome 8)
6. Apply computer science theory and software development fundamentals to produce computing-based solutions. (Computer Science student learning outcome 1)
7. Apply security principles and practices to maintain operations in the presence of risks and threats. (Cyber Security student learning outcome 1)

Integration

To be determined

Details

• Professor: Dr. Cathy Bareiss
• Office SB 31
• Class Time: 1:00-1:50 F
• Class Location: S 025
• Textbook: Student membership in ACM

Course Content

Policies

• Integrity
• Late work

Assignments

Three assignments involves reactions to current events. Announcements will not be made in class. You are responsible to track these yourself. Standard late policy will apply to these assignments.
You are to react to current events/publications. A reaction to an article includes enough to convince me that you have read the entire article and not just the headline or first paragraph. It should include a summary of what was said and your reaction. Be sure to give a complete reference to the item. These should be turned in as a hard copy in class within one week of the item being published. You may pick when. Each one does have a deadline. The ones you pick must be unique to this course

1. Write a reaction to one article in the ACM TechNews. This needs to be completed by midterm.
2. Write a reaction to one article in XRDS. This needs to be completed before the final.
3. Write a reaction to one article in ACM Communications. This needs to be completed before Thanksgiving.

Assignments associated with class discussions: Each week there will be an assignment associated with that week's topic. The assignment will be made in class and is due the following Tuesday at midnight. To pass the course, you may not miss more than three assignments. You may only do two assignments for classes that you miss (and that is only if you watch that day's recordings). Any assignment that is over a week late will not count. Assignments will be made on a high pass/pass/low pass/fail score. A pass on all assignments (but three) will equal an A. The remaining grades (B, C, D, F) are scaled similarly

Extra credit

There is none.

Tentative Schedule

Students may request changes in topics. Any change request needs to be made at least one week prior and can be done verbally or via email.

Friday
8/18: Accessibility
8/25: Applying for a job
9/01: Storage: disk, ssd, RAID, SAN,etc.
9/08: Whistleblowing
9/15: ChatGPT: how it works
9/22: Guest speaker
9/29: Current topic
10/06: No class Fall Break
10/13: Learning exercise 1 CCSC Board Meeting
10/20: Learning exercise 2 CCSC:MW Conference
10/27: P/NP/etc. Tier/software architecture
11/03: Man in the Middle attack
11/10: Tier/software architecture
11/17: Graphics
11/24: No class Thanksgiving break
12/01: Security
12/08: No class Final Exam week

Campus Integrity Policy

The student handbook (p. 156) states: “Any act of deceit, falsehood or stealing by unethically copying or using someone else’s work in an academic situation is strictly prohibited.

1. A student found guilty of plagiarism or cheating will receive an “F”(zero) for that particular paper, assignment or exam. Should this occur, the professor will have an interview with the student and will submit a written report of the incident to the academic dean.
2. If a second offense should occur, the student will be asked to appear before the professor, the academic dean and the vice president for student development.
   
   

The student should realize that at this point continuation in a course and even his/her academic career may be in jeopardy. In the event of a recommendation for dismissal, the matter shall be referred to the Student Development Committee.”

Services

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a law which provides civil rights protection for people with disabilities. Bethel University, in compliance with equal access laws, requests that students with disabilities seeking to acquire accommodations make an appointment with the Center for Academic Success—Disability Services. It is located in the Miller-Moore Academic Center, 033. You may also phone 574-807-7460 or email rachel.kennedy@betheluniversity.edu for an appointment.

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