CS 3891: Special Topics – Computing and the Environment<\/p>\n
Instructor: Doug Fisher (douglas.h.fisher@vanderbilt.edu)
\nClass Time: Tuesdays, Thursdays 9:35 AM – 10:50 AM
\nClass Room: University Club 117 (with prior permission there is a Zoom option that is different than the office hours link below https:\/\/vanderbilt.zoom.us\/j\/92337215902)
\nInstructor Office Hours: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Monday – Thursday (https:\/\/vanderbilt.zoom.us\/j\/95364540137 ) or by appointment
\nTextbook: None
\nPrerequisites: CS 3251<\/p>\n
The course will cover computing topics broadly and the sustainability challenges to which they apply. There will be weekly readings<\/strong>, which we’ll discuss on the discussion forum<\/strong><\/a> and in class. In-class lecture and discussion<\/strong> will often go more deeply into computing concepts, methods, and tools that are relevant to the week, as well as more deeply and more broadly into sustainability topics beyond the week’s reading. In the first part of the semester there are weekly exercises<\/strong>, generally due by Thursday class.\u00a0<\/strong>There are\u00a0weekly quizzes<\/strong>\u00a0(generally in Thursday classes) on the reading for the week, and the quiz will cover and exercises, and the discussion in-class and online as well.<\/p>\n In the latter part of the semester students will work on a project that allows them to delve more deeply into an application of computing to sustainability. Group projects<\/strong> will be specified, designed, and implemented by each group of three students. Some class sessions will be dedicated to intermediate and final student presentations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Letter grades will be assigned using conventional ranges:<\/p>\n There is no rounding up. There is no \u201ccurve\u201d \u2014 thus no hidden disincentive to share. A+ is possible, if allowed in the school of the student.<\/p>\n Vanderbilt has no stated guideline (that I can find) on the amount you work per credit hour<\/strong>, but other universities state an expectation of an average of 3 hours per credit hour per week. You can search for it yourself on the Web, but this passes my sanity check (a 20 credit hour semester would have you working 60 hours per week on classes if every class were exactly at \u201cexpectation\u201d, and a 15 credit hour semester would have you working about 45 hours per week on classes). For a 3 credit course like this course, that is approximately 9 hours of work per week<\/strong>, including class time (or 6.5 hours outside of class per week, distributed as shown in the parenthetical statements below).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CS 3891: Special Topics – Computing and the Environment Instructor: Doug Fisher (douglas.h.fisher@vanderbilt.edu) Class Time: Tuesdays, Thursdays 9:35 AM – 10:50 AM Class Room: University Club 117 (with prior permission there is a Zoom option that is different than the … Continue reading Grading<\/h1>\n
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