CSE Curriculum Revision: Working Documents

Everything on this page should be considered a draft and a set of working documents. Nothing has been formally approved or set in stone. There is a lot of background that cannot be concisely summarized here. If you have concerns or comments, the committee would be happy to hear them -- especially suggestions for improvements. Before "this happens", we will get all the feedback we can from the faculty and students.

We envision several optional courses in the 3xx core, some number of which could count toward credit in the major. The number of required courses decreases and is slightly different for CS and CE. We envision no longer requiring STAT390/391 for all CSE majors.

Detailed course descriptions:

Required of all CSE majors:

Hardware/Software Interface (last update: April 26)
Foundations of Computing I (last update: May 9)
Foundations of Computing II (last update: May 26)
Programming Abstractions (last update: May 9)

Required of CS majors and the CE Software Specialization; optional for the Hardware Specialization:

Software Design and Implementation (last update: Sep 5)

Required of CE majors; optional for CS majors:

Hardware Design and Implementation (last update: May 19)
Signal Conditioning: not developed by this committee, but see the current course webpage, particularly the course-description documents. Intended to be a replacement/alternative for EE215 and EE233. Unfortunately, these links are dead. We are trying to get them back from EE.

Required of CE Hardware Specialization; optional for others:

Systems Programming (last update: Sep 14)

Optional for all CSE majors:

Introduction to Data Management (last update: May 19)
Programming Languages; little changed from CSE341 (last update: May 18)
STAT391 (for CS counts toward elective credits, for CE counts toward Math/Science electives or CSE electives but not both)
Other courses in the future?

Here is a picture [OUTDATED FROM MAY BUT NOT TOO FAR OFF] showing how the courses fit together. We expect "non-required" courses would all have a large/majority enrollment. Also note that "requirements" should always be adjusted to meet individual needs/interests where appropriate.

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