School of Computer Science Group Advising Meeting Fall 2014 Todays - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

School of Computer Science Group Advising Meeting Fall 2014

Today’s Goals • Course Overview – Courses you are taking – Courses you will be taking • Planning – Advisor & Tips – What you should be thinking about • Remove the hold on your account – Ask/answer your questions

Undergraduate Academic Program Officers Chair (Clarke) Associate Chair for froshadvising@cs.umass.edu Academic Affairs (Barrington) Undergraduate Student UG Events Graduate UPM Program Director Outreach (Moll) Program Fahey (Grupen) Committee (Diao, Trim) Chief Undergraduate Adviser- Sophomores (Richards) Freshman- Honors Transfer Program Peer Advising Faculty Adviser (Marlin) Manager Advisers (Anderson) (Verts) CS ROCKs 5 Student ACE 5 Student CS Program Leadership Committee Leadership Committee

Visit the CS Website https://www.cs.umass.edu

BS Course Tracking Form:

BA Course Tracking Form:

First and Second Year BS Courses Note: (From the BS Tracking Form) Choice of Calc or Stats

If you are taking 121 and 131:

Your next courses are:187 and 132: ✓ ✓

If you are taking187 and 132:

Your next courses are: 220 and 250: ✓ ✓

First and Second Year BA Courses (From the BA Tracking Form)

If you are taking 121 and 131: (From the BA Tracking Form)

Your next courses are:187 and 132: ✓ ✓ (From the BA Tracking Form)

200 level CS Core Courses BS-CMPSCI: Must take all 4 200-level cores.

200 level CS Core Courses BA-CMPSCI: Must take at least 3 200-level cores. BA Tracking Form

200 level CS Core Courses Require 1 year of Calculus Mathematical Foundations Intensive Programming of Computing

200 level CS Core Courses Recommended Sequence: CMPSCI 220 and CMPSCI 250

200 level CS Core Courses ✓ ✓ Recommended Sequence: CMPSCI 230 and CMPSCI 240

200 level CS Core Courses Can’t do this: CMPSCI 220 and CMPSCI 230

200 level CS Core Courses Also, can’t do this: CMPSCI 250 and CMPSCI 240

Consider taking Summer courses: These CS courses are usually offered online in the Summer: CS121, CS187, CS305 JrYr Writing (CS majors only + junior or senior standing), check CS website/SPIRE for more… ----------------------------------------------------------- Also: Math courses: Calc I, II, III, Linear algebra. Science courses: Chem, Physics, etc. Gen Eds …

Gen Eds? • See SPIRE for ARR report- what you need to satisfy. Registrar’s website: http://www.umass.edu/registrar/students/general-educationacademic- requirements

BS-CMPSCI Tracks • General CMPSCI • Robotics, Vision, & Graphics • Artificial Intelligence • Search & Data Mining • Computer Architecture • Security & Privacy • Networking • Software Engineering • Programming • Software Systems Languages & Compilers • Theory of Computation

Adviser & Tips • Your Adviser – 1 st and 2 nd year: group advising. • 1 st year: Gordon Anderson • 2 nd year: Tim Richards – Individual adviser for 3 rd year students

Adviser & Tips Visit ACE: (Check CS website for details)

What you should be thinking about • Study Habits? • Attendance / Participation? • Office Hours? Talk to Instructors? • Library tutoring center? • What did I like/dislike? • Honors College: Departmental Honors? • Coops/Internships?

Get enough sleep.

Get Involved! • ACM (http://umass.acm.org) • Leadership Committees (Junior and Seniors) – ACE Peer Advising – ROCKs Recruiting & Outreach • REU Program

Get Involved! https://www.cs.umass.edu/ • CS Women http://umasscswomen.weebly.com/ • Uspace (144 CS Bldg) undergraduate study space • Undergrad Events (See CS Calendar)

Upcoming Events

Hold Release and Questions We will be happy to meet with you for more detailed questions or concerns right after this presentation. You will be cleared to have your registration code (RAC) released before registration period begins: