CS492/CS692 S16 Course Structure

This page contains elaboration on the structure of the CS492/CS692 offering in Spring 2016, including sections on lectures, the marking scheme, the late policy, assignments, role-playing exercises, and plagiarism.

Lectures

Lectures are scheduled for three fifty-minute slots per week (MTTh 9:30-10:20, MC 4040). The class will be run more like a discussion seminar than a standard lecture. Students are expected to do the preparatory readings (as listed in the timetable) in advance; discussion will commence using those readings as a base. The instructor may talk for five minutes here and there in order to set the stage, make a technical point, summarize, or concentrate attention. Student participation is important not only to facilitate the learning process but because marks are assessed for class participation.

Marking scheme

Final marks are based on: