Courses in Other Departments

With permission of the School, any one of COMM 365*, ELEC 470*, ELEC 471*, ELEC 476*, ELEC 478*, MATH 272*, MATH 337*, MATH 401*, MATH 402*, MATH 434* and MATH 474* may be substituted for CISC options in any of the CISC concentrations.

 

Computing Facilities

CASLab is a network of PCs and SUN workstations supported by Linux and Sun servers used for undergraduate teaching. CASLab is shared between the School of Computing and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Students are provided with an XP and Unix account. File storage for PC users is provided on CASLab Unix servers that are backed up daily. From the PC desktop, students also have access to Linux and Sun Solaris environments using X-Window software. First-year students will usually use the Jeffery Hall laboratory consisting of 100 PCs running XP. Upper-year students make use of the laboratories in Goodwin, Jackson and Walter Light Halls. These laboratories have approximately 75 PCs and 25 Sun workstations.

 

Introductory Courses

Students considering pursuing a CISC or COMP concentration must take CISC 121* and CISC 124*. Students without programming experience should take either CISC 101* or CISC 110* before CISC 121*. (Students entering CISC 121* should normally be familiar with variables, iteration, conditionals, functions, procedures, parameters, scope, and arrays.) Students in CISC 121* may transfer to CISC 101*, and students in CISC 101* may transfer to CISC 121*, without academic penalty, before the end of the fifth week of the corresponding term. Students with considerable programming experience may be allowed to take CISC 121* and CISC 124* concurrently, or to substitute a more advanced course for CISC 121*; consult the instructor of CISC 124*.

 

Upper-Year Courses

Enrolment in upper-year CISC courses (except CISC 285*) is normally limited to students for whom the course is either required in their concentration or an option in their concentration.

 

Registration

Students intending to take upper-year CISC courses must register in the spring for courses to be taken the following September.

 

Students wishing to take a CISC course for which they lack the required standing should consult with the Chair of Undergraduate Studies.

 

The School reserves the right to restrict enrolment in any course in which registration exceeds resource limitations in a particular year. Priority will be given to students in computing concentrations. In any given year, the 400-level courses offered in the School depend on demand and resources available. 

 

Professional Internship Program 

Qualified students in any of the Bachelor of Computing (Honours) programs may register in a 12- or 16-month Professional Internship program for their degree. Students who meet the minimum academic requirements of 65 per cent overall average in at least 9.0 credits must seek approval of the Chair of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Computing.  These students have the opportunity to pursue a 12- or 16-month paid work term in a career-related position after completing their second or third year of study. Upon successful completion of the program, students' transcripts will be annotated with a statement certifying that they have completed their degree with a Professional Internship. 

 

The requirements for the Professional Internship versions of the B.Cmp.(Hons.) degrees are the same as the standard versions of these degree programs except for the following change.

 

The project course normally required in the B.Cmp.(Hons.) program (i.e., CISC 498 or CISC 499*, or COGS 499*) is replaced by courses COMP 390 and COMP 391*, or COMP 390 and COMP 392*, or COMP 393*, COMP 391* and COMP 392* (or, for a 16-month internship, COMP 390, COMP 391* and COMP 392*), provided that the internship report documents how the internship work has satisfied the requirements for a conventional CISC 498 or 499* or COGS 499* project. The degree requirements therefore are reduced to 19.0 credits (SSP SODE students) or 19.5 credits (MAJ COMP, SSP BMCO, SSP CSCI, SSP COGS students), in addition to the internship courses. While the internship courses may appear as up to three transcript entries, only the credit equivalent to an undergraduate project course may be counted toward the degree requirements. Beyond that 0.5 or 1.0 credit, internship courses should not be used when counting total credits.