Computer Science Questionnaire 2000

The goal of this questionnaire is to get student feedback -- as objective, open and broad as possible -- on the current computer science curriculum as a whole, on specific courses, on various aspects of curriculum (be it strong or weak), including any factors which may affect the success of computer science programs at Memorial. Although some of the following questions contain specific points to be addressed, we would like to get as many other remarks as you can provide, using the questions below as a form of guidance.

In order to make processing of responses as simple and efficient as possible, we ask you to mail your contributions (as plain ASCII text, if possible) to survey@cs.mun.ca with the subject line ``CS survey 2000''. If e-mail, for whatever reason, is inconvenient, please forward your responses to us in any other form (preferably typed). All received information will be processed on strictly anonymous basis, which means that all identification will be removed right after receiving your contribution, before any further processing.

There is no firm deadline for submitting the responses, but we would like to receive them within the next few days, before the end of this term.

We thank you for your participation in this endeavor.


(1) List all completed computer science courses.

(2) Indicate (at most three) computer science courses (including labs) which you have found:

Please elaborate.

(3) Indicate which computer science courses, in your opinion, would benefit from:

For courses with a laboratory component:

(4) Is the prerequisite structure adequate? If not, what are the areas that need improvement? Are there any courses with lab component which actually do not need this component? Are there any courses which do not have a lab component but should have one?

(5) Are there courses or specific topics that, in your opinion, should be added to or removed from the computer science curriculum?

(6) Do you think that the current curriculum provides you with adequate programming skills and adequate computer science theoretical background? Please elaborate.

(7) Do you have any other general comments related to the computer science curriculum, and in particular:


CS Undergraduate Studies Committee: D. Batten, A. Deb, T. Middleton, G. Miminis and W.M. Zuberek (chair)

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