Request for Action
By the Engineering Curriculum Committee
Instructions
Use this form to request a modification to the curriculum in the School of Engineering. Submit both a
signed hard copy and an electronic version of the document to the chair of the School of Engineering
Curriculum Committee (SOECC) at least two weeks before a regularly scheduled meeting. In addition,
send electronic copies to the engineering reference librarian and to the engineering and science
bibliographer at Tisch Library.
If credit is desired in either the natural science or mathematical science distribution area in liberal arts,
separate approval is required from the Academic Review Board (ARB). Please forward the course
description to the ARB chair.
Role
SOECC Chair
Distribution List, 2011–2012
Person and Link to
Format
Directory Listing
Alva Couch
Print (signed) and electronic
Engineering Reference Librarian
Engineering and Science
Bibliographer
Karen Vagts
Electronic
Miriam Allman
Electronic
Academic Review Board Chair
Joseph Auner
Electronic course description (if
seeking distribution credit)
Department
Current Course Number
(if applicable):
Current Course or Program Title
(if applicable):
Proposed Course Number
(if applicable)
Proposed Course or Program Title
(if applicable)
Name of Faculty Contact
Telephone Number
Email Address
Date
Request Summary
Computer Science
COMP111/112
Operating Systems/Networks
Same
Same
Alva Couch
73674
Alva.couch@tufts.edu
April 2, 2012
This request has been approved by the faculty of the department.
Department:
Signature of Department Chair
Academic year 2011–2012.
Date
Request for Action
By the Engineering Curriculum Committee, p. 2
Indicate requested action(s). Check all boxes that apply.
Offer New Course
Offer New Program
Change Course Number
Change Course Title
X
Change Course Description
Change Program Description
Other:
Course/Program Designation and Description. For new courses, please provide the department
designation, course number, course title, and proposed Bulletin description. The description should be
about four printed lines and written in Bulletin language. For course changes, please provide the
current designation, course number, course title, and course description, followed by the proposed
changes. For programs, please include both existing (if applicable) and proposed Bulletin language.
Proposed Course Number
(if applicable)
COMP111/112
Proposed Course or
Program Title
Current Bulletin
Description (if applicable)
Operating Systems/Networks
COMP0111: Operating Systems (Cross-listed as EE 128).
Fundamental issues in operating system design. Concurrent
processes: synchronization, sharing, deadlock, scheduling. Relevant
hardware properties of uniprocessor and multiprocessor computer
systems. Prerequisites: COMP15.
COMP0112: Networks. Computer Networks and Protocols. Design
and implementation of computer communication networks, protocols,
and applications, with an emphasis on the Internet protocol suite.
Network architectures and programming interfaces. Data link,
transport, and routing protocols. Congestion sources and remedies.
Addressing and naming in local area and wide area networks.
Network security and network management. Prerequisites: COMP 40
or EE 14.
Proposed Bulletin
Description
Change prerequisites to “COMP15 and either COMP40 or EE14” for
both courses.
Rationale and Impact. Please describe the rationale and impact of the proposed changes and/or for
offering the new course or program. Indicate ways in which proposed changes affect existing or
proposed programs of study both within and outside your department. When appropriate, indicate
relationships between changes and practices at peer institutions, as well as relevance to department
mission and School of Engineering mission and strategic plans.
The impact of this change is to acknowledge that in COMP111, knowledge of architecture is required
and that in COMP112, programming experience is likewise required (COMP15). EE14 was historically
required for COMP111 in its cross-listed form as EE128. EE14 does not have a COMP15 prerequisite,
so the COMP15 prerequisite must be mentioned explicitly. In practice, all students taking the courses
Academic year 2011–2012.
Request for Action
By the Engineering Curriculum Committee, p. 3
already have the proposed prerequisites, because of where the courses fit in the Computer
Engineering and Computer Science sequences. This change makes those prerequisites explicit.
(We previously voted that the prerequisites for COMP111 should be changed to “COMP40 or EE14”,
but somehow this change was never entered into the bulletin).
This change has been endorsed by the other primary stakeholder – the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering – that cross-lists COMP111 as EE128.
Resource Requirements and Curricular Adjustments. Please describe the resources required to
implement the proposed changes, including plans for how these resources will be obtained. Include
expected enrollments, class sizes, expected numbers of sections, and frequency of offering for each
class. Describe modifications required in your department’s curriculum or instructor’s regular course
offerings to make the proposed changes possible. Identify whether required funding for resources is
pending and/or dependent upon external grants. Indicate any additions to the Tisch Library collections
that may be required. Where possible, compare resource requirements to existing requirements before
the proposed changes.
There are no resource requirements or impacts to this proposal.
Additional Resources. If additional resources are required, please attach a statement from the Dean of
Engineering (or a designee) concerning the resources and how they will be provided.
Tufts University Arts and Sciences Library
Library Impact Statement for Undergraduate Courses
Please furnish the information requested below and return this form to: Collection Management Librarian,
Arts and Sciences Library, Tisch. (The Arts and Sciences Librarian is an ex officio member of the
Committee on Curricula.)
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Department or Program: Computer Science

Title of course: Operating Systems/Networks

Suggested department course number: COMP111/112

Course will first be offered: Fall 2012

Instructor(s) Alva Couch

Campus telephone number 73674

Anticipated enrollment 40

Open to undergraduates Yes
graduates Yes

This course is primarily dependent on:
Academic year 2011–2012.
Request for Action
By the Engineering Curriculum Committee, p. 4
Text Yes
Library resources No

Brief description of topics to be covered
See descriptions above.

Description of any additional library resources needed to support this course.
None.
Academic year 2011–2012.