Senior Seminar Syllabus Visual Aid

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Course Information

Catalog Description

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A series of weekly seminars covering a wide range of computer science topics and formats including presentations from industry and university personnel, and students regarding projects and research work. Graded credit/no credit. Prerequisite completion of all required 300-level computer science courses for the B.S. in Computer Science degree. (2 units).

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Objectives

Practice
1. research,
2. presentations,
3. writing reports

Why

Computer professionals have to spend part of their time

1. Researching a new topic
2. Presenting it to colleagues and management
3. Writing reports

These will help you get promoted, pursue a graduate degree, or create your own company.

An opportunity to learn about something we do not cover in a course.

Class Meetings

Wednesday at 12

When there is a holiday on a Wednesday we make it up on an extra Monday at the end of the quarter.

Including the final exam meeting.

Details [ schedule.html ]

Schedule Will Change

Fire, Flu, Wind, etc.

Student presentations.

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Work Load

Could be easy and fun.

For some harder.

Written work must be in good English.

No stuff from other people without explicit acknowledgment.

Reading

There is no required text

Study [ text.html ] before you do your next job interview.

Use library resources [ 02.html ]

Participate in Presentations and Lectures

Be prompt or lose points!

Be polite... or lose points

Make a Presentation

Set up 5 minutes.

15 minutes present

5 minutes Questions

Cover


1. Who I am.
2. What I wanted to know.
3. Why
4. What I read.
5. What I learned.
6. Was it worth it?



Some kind of audio-visual aids. [ 03.html ]


(citations): A citation enables your audience to find the paper/book that you are talking or writing about. It lists


1. Authors' Names
2. Title
3. Journal/magazine name+volume+number+(month year)+pages
4. URL (if any)



The audience score your presentation.

The highest scoring presentation will win a prize.

Practicing and improving short written assignments.

Summarize presentation into written form -- plain text.

Submit to [Submit]

[ Format of Review ]

Accepted assignments published on the this web site.

Some book reports will be integrated, with credit to you, into my web site.

No Plagiarism

Notice that if you use any graphics, text, or formulas from another source you must say where it came from.

Grading

See [ Catalog Entry ] above.

Criteria to earn credit:


1. Participate in 80% of the classes
   • arrive on time,
   • take part,
   • stay until the end
   [note2].
2. Make at least one acceptable presentation to the class.
3. Submit one acceptable written report/review [note1].
4. Turn up for the final.


(note1): If your written report is not accepted you will have to improve it and try again.


(note2): You can make up a missing class by participating in a department seminar and giving me a written (one page max) report on the seminar.

These seminars will be listed [ ../seminar/ ] on the web.

Examinations

No examinations.

No quizzes.

You must still attend the final meeting to earn credit for the course.

Prizes


1. The audience award for the best presentation.
2. The best report.



Summary of Assigned work

1. Pick a topic
2. Research it in a professional Digital Libraries.
3. Present
4. Prepare a written review

   You may have to do it again if you don't earn credit for the review.

   I will be publishing your reviews.

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Format of Review

You must submit it as plain text by using [ hole.html ] form. Here is the syntax of the review

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 	Authors' Names

 	Title

 	Journal/magazine name+volume+number+(month year)+pages

 	URL (if any)

 	What type of resource is it: pick one or two words from the list below.

 	Some keywords describing the content.

 	A set of bullet points describing the content.

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Type of Resource Advert, anecdote, article, polemic, essay, theory, experience, experiment, poll, survey of literature, demonstration, ...

Bullet points -- short, important ideas, your opinions

Target no more than 250 words!

Support

1. Come and see me in my office: JBH339 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 2:30pm to 3:40pm.

2. Send me EMail using the [Contact] button above.

3. Check out my [ ../plan.html ] and request a meeting 24 hours in advance.

4. Ask any any CSE faculty.

5. Ask a reference librarian!

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