Agenda for Teaching Committee Meeting 12 October 2001

1. Accreditation follow-up:
   1. Report of subcommittee to revise CS degree to provide professional issues and ethics, and management material.

   2. Should a strict software engineering process be followed in SENG4910 (with report) / SENG4911? What about COMP4910/1? What about CS honours projects? What about BINF4910/1?

2. Subjects to run in 2002: (draft here).
   1. COMP9024 in summer session? Arun has approved paying someone to do this - e.g. someone from UTS or Sydney; Lab constraints
   2. COMP2041 in both sessions?
   3. Confirmation that COMP3720 will run in first session (only) and COMP4920 in second session (only).
   4. Allocation for first and second year courses:

      Course	LIC Session 1	LIC Session 2	LIC Summer
      COMP1001	Papagelis	Papagelis	not offered
      COMP1011	Keller 50% not LIC	Chakravarty	not offered
      COMP1711	Buckland	not offered	not offered
      COMP1021	Ho	Pagnucco	?
      COMP1721	not offered	Taylor	not offered
      COMP1091	Engelhardt	not offered	not offered
      COMP2011	El Gindy	Potter	not offered
      COMP2711	Foo	not offered	not offered
      COMP20y0	not offered	?	not offered
      COMP2021	Diessel	Diessel	not offered
      COMP2041	Taylor	Shepherd	not offered
      COMP2411	Martin	not offered	not offered

3. New course proposal: Advanced Functional Programming [chak]

4. Policy on weighting given to multiple choice exam setting in allocation of examination marking duties. The TC agreed to draft a School policy on this.

5. Status of BE Computer Engineering MCom degree.

6. Tutor of the year award [AndrewT]

7. Refinement of Plagiarism Policy following School Meeting.
   The School meeting approved addition of plagiarism detection facilitation to sms.
   Issues raised at the School meeting include
   • providing a clear definition of plagiarism vs acceptable cooperation at the School and course levels,
   • standards of "matter-of-factness" in communicating plagiarism rules to students,
   • appeal processes for students,
   • degree of discretion available to lecturers in relation to what might otherwise appear to be "mandatory sentencing", and
   • discretion in the matter of whether a student known to have plagiarised may be employed as a casual tutor - it was for example suggested that a student convicted once in COMP1011 who subsequently had a superlative record and no further breaches of plagiarism rules might be allowed to tutor, say, in their fourth year.

8. Allocation for summer session courses.

9. Any other business.

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