CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

Stuck in the Middle Stuck in the Middle with Youwith You

Stuck in the Middle Stuck in the Middle with Youwith You

Master’s Level CurriculaMaster’s Level Curricula

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

Panelists• Elizabeth Adams

– James Madison UniversitY

• Hans-Peter Bischof– Rochester Institute of Technology

• Don Goelman– Villanova University

• Roberta Evans Sabin– Loyola College

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

OverviewI. Our institutionsII. Our departmentsIII. Our master’s-level programsIV. Our audienceV. Our curriculaVI. Our “gotchas”

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

Descriptive vs Prescriptive

• Questions for audience– Why are you here?– What do you want to know?

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

Our InstitutionsJMU RIT Villanov

aLoyola

Audience

Location

Size

Focus

HighestDegree

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Our DepartmentsJMU RIT Villanova Loyola Audience

highest degree

u.g. degrees

formed

#faculty

#majors

# minors

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

Our Master’s-Level ProgramsJMU RIT Villanov

aLoyola

Audience

# degrees

focus

when began

size

faculty

Presentation Mode

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More …• about our degree programs

– objectives

• about others‘ degree programs

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

Our Master’s-Level StudentsJMU RIT Villanov

aLoyola

Audience

full-time part time

background

day night

support

% intl

goals

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More about students•

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

Our Master’s-Level CurriculaJMU RIT Villanova Loyol

aAudience

# credit hours

time to complete

thesis ?

comprehensive exam?

project?

retention

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Our Master’s-Level CurriculaJMU RIT Villanova Loyol

aAudience

deficiencies

core courses

electives

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Pre-Core Courses• Computer Programming• Computer Organization• Data structures and algorithms• Discrete Mathematics

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

Pre-Core

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

Core Courses Secure Software Engineering

• Operating Systems• Database Systems• Software Engineering• Analysis of Algorithms• Programming Languages• Information Security• Requirements and Design• Networking and Security• Software Quality Assurance• Secure Network Operations• Elective/Thesis

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

Core CoursesInformation Security

• Operating Systems• Formal Methods for Information Security• Ethics, Law and Policy in Cyberspace• Software Engineering• Networks and Network Security• Database Systems• Cryptography: Algorithms and Applications• Advanced Network Security• Secure Operations and Audit• Distributed Computing Security and Privacy • Trusted Systems• Elective/Thesis

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

Core Courses (Villanova)

• Programming Languages• Theory of Computability• Automata Theory• Computer Organization• Operating Systems

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Core Courses - RIT• Algorithms• Foundations of computing theory

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

Electives (Villanova)• Distributed systems• Networks• Data communication• Network management• Databases• Advanced databases• Artifical intelligence• Expert systems• HCI• Software engineering

• Advanced software engineering

• System programming• Advanced systems

programming• System administration• Computer graphics• Object oriented design &

programming• Multimedia Programming

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

Elective Clusters – RIT• Theory• Security• Distributed Systems• Compiler/Language Tools• Algorithms• AI• Computer Graphics

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

More about our Curricula

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

Our GotchasJMU RIT Villanova Loyol

aAudience

attracting students

critical mass

comprehensive exams

double-duty courses

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

Gotchas?? Or not??• critical mass• double-duty courses• students - pre and post 9/11• comprehensive exams• certificates

CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel

Questions????