Advising Info (rules, etc)
Janet Jones
Jan Prins
Anselmo Lastra
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Format
• Slides with topics
♦ And a few auxiliary slides
• We’ll chime in with information
• Add topics/ask questions as
needed
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Factors In Course Selection (1)
• Definitive source for course
offerings
♦ www.cs.unc.edu/Admin/Schedules
♦ http://facultystaffcentral.unc.edu/ trails
• Distribution courses
♦ vs. getting started on research courses
• Remediation courses
♦ Advisor takes the lead!
• Generating a qual slate
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Factors (2)
• Courses external to the
department
• Appropriate courses and tuition
remission
• Graduate credit (100 and above)
• Full-time registration and waiver
of hours
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Registration, Drop/Add
• Department registrars
♦ Karen Thigpen
♦ David Stotts
• PINs
♦ faculty access from dept academic affairs page
• Deadlines
♦ Late fee for late registration (Tues, 30th)
♦ Last add is on Tues, Sept. 6
• Tuition penalty for late drops (next)!
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Course Drop
• Official Deadlines
♦ Sept. 12 – last day to drop & adjust tuition
♦ Nov. 21 – last day for grad. drop
• Dropping after first may cost the
student $2200+!!!
• See
http://gradschool.unc.edu/pdf/tuition_drop_dates.pdf
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Factors (3)
• Transfer and waiving of courses
♦ We’re often asked about waiving
distribution courses
♦ Also
http://handbook.unc.edu/coursecredit.html
• COMP 390 vs. 391 vs. 393 vs. 394
• Module courses
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Residence credit
• MS 2 semesters, PhD 4 (2 contiguous)
♦ Nine or more credit hours earn a full semester of
residence.
♦ Six to eight credit hours earn one-half semester
of residence.
♦ Three to five credit hours earn one-fourth
semester of residence.
♦ Fewer than 3 hours do not count toward
residence credit.
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The Qual
• Deadlines
♦ Fri Aug 26 - declaration of intent + proposed slate of
courses
• Qual permission and bypass
♦ considered in Sep 2 faculty meeting
• Rules governing course selection
♦ http://www.cs.unc.edu/Admin/Exams/Qual/
• Forfeit – take it or lose it
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Residency
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In or Out of state (delta of $8800)
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paid from the department’s tuition remission allocation
when this runs out
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we may be bailed out
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we may have to cover from trust funds
latest out-of-state tuition raise is not matched by increase in tuition remission
allocation
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but not unless we can show due diligence in establishing in-state residency
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plus the grad school’s allocation is insufficient to begin with
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Extent of arm twisting
What it takes to establish residency
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How to do it
http://gradschool.unc.edu/residency/index.html
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For 1st year students, there are some steps that help
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NC drivers license
Register car in NC
Deadlines
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Tue Sep 6
Dept. will contact students who may be eligible this year
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Full-Time Status
• Registers for 9 or more graduate credit hours in a fall
or spring semester; or
• Registers for a minimum of 3 hours of thesis (393),
or dissertation (394) in a fall or spring semester.
Note: A student may register for additional courses
as needed, but if registering for less than 9 hours,
this must include a minimum of 3 hours of
392/393/394 to be considered full-time; or
• Registers for fewer than 9 graduate credit hours in a
fall or spring semester, exclusive of 392/393/394,
and has been granted a “waiver of hours” for that
semester.
• Waiver of hours form
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Foreign Students
• OPT, CPT
♦ Optional Practical Training
♦ Curricular Practical Training
• Consequences of academic
ineligibility
• Consequences of dropping below
full-time registration
• http://oisss.unc.edu/
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IP and Writing Requirement
• MS technical writing requirement
♦ Register for 291
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Other Possible Topics
• Leaves of absence
♦ First year granted automatically
♦ Second year requires letter of support
from advisor
♦ Typically no 3rd year
♦ Can’t get one if you’re on an extension
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Rules
• Department web site
♦ Academic affairs
• http://www.cs.unc.edu/Admin/
• Official MS and PhD requirements
• Student progress forms
• Grad School Rules
♦ http://handbook.unc.edu/
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BACKUP SLIDES
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Distribution requirement
Four of the following, at least one from each category
Formal
Systems
202 - Algorithm Analysis
250 - Scientific Computing
244 - Advanced Programming
Languages
247 - Concurrent and Distributed
Algorithms
281 - Computational Geometry
204 - Software Design and
Impl.
240 - Compilers
241 - Internet Architecture
and
Performance
242 - Operating Systems
243 - Distributed Systems
Diverse
203 - Parallel and Distributed Computing
206 - Computer Architecture and
Implementation
235 - Graphics, Images, Vision
261 - Elements of Hardware Systems
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Possible ways to make up missing
background
• take the missing course
• complete a more advanced course
that subsumes the content
• arrange an independent study
♦ variable credit graduate module courses
♦ Reading course
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Background Courses
• Computer Science
COMP 120 Computer Organization
COMP 121 Data Structures
COMP 122 Algorithms and Analysis
Any two of the following
• COMP 130 Files and Databases
• COMP 140 Compilers
• COMP 142 Operating Systems
♦ COMP 144 Programming Language Concepts
♦ COMP 181 Models of Languages and Computation
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• Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Engineering
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MATH 33 Calculus of Functions of Several Variables
MATH 81 Discrete Mathematics
MATH 147 Linear Algebra
MATH 191 Numerical Analysis (Scientific Computing I)
STAT 126 Probability
COMP 160 Digital Logic and Computer Design
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Qual Course Rules
• All courses must be UNC-CH COMP courses numbered 100
or higher carrying 3 hours of credit.
• At least one of the courses must involve "formal
thinking". Courses in this category include 122, 181, and
any course in the Formal area of the distribution
requirements, but others may qualify as well.
• A course not taken for credit in our program may be
included in the list, provided it is not a prerequisite of
another course in the list. This means, for example, that
COMP 122 (the undergraduate algorithms course) may
not be included if COMP 202 (the graduate algorithms
course) is on the list, unless COMP 122 was taken for
credit. The UNC syllabus for the appropriate course
defines the content area that the student will be expected
to address in the exam.
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COMP 390 - 304
• COMP 390 Research Seminar in Computer
Science (0.5-3)
Prerequisite, permission of the instructor.
Seminars in various topics offered by
members of the faculty.
• COMP 391 Reading and Research (1-3)
Prerequisite, permission of the instructor.
Directed reading and research in selected
advanced topics.
• COMP 393 Master's Thesis (Variable)
• COMP 394 Doctoral Dissertation (Variable)
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Module Courses
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COMP 220 Mathematical Theory for Computer Science (Variable, 0-2.5 each)
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COMP 221 Mathematical Theory for Computer Science (Variable, 0-2.5 each)
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COMP 222 Programming Languages and Techniques (Variable, 0-2.5 each)
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COMP 223 Programming Languages and Techniques (Variable, 0-2.5 each)
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COMP 224 Mathematical Models in Computer Science (Variable, 0.2-5 each)
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COMP 225 Mathematical Models in Computer Science (Variable, 0.2-5 each)
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COMP 226 Computer Systems (Variable, 0.2-5 each)
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COMP 227 Computer Systems (Variable, 0.2-5 each)
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Grades
• Graduate grades
♦ H, P, L and F
• Augmented with +, - in this department only
• PC (Peter Calingaert) score
♦ weighted average of grades
Grade H+
H
H- P+
Weight +5 +3 +1 -1
P
P- L+
-3 - 5 -7
L
L-
F
-9 -11
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Grade requirements
• Academic eligibility (Grad school rule)
♦ no failing grades
♦ at most two “L” grades
• Distribution course grades (our rule)
♦ four distribution courses with grade P- or better
♦ four distribution courses with PC score
•  -3.0 (MS)
•  0.0 (PhD)
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Course requirements
M.S. Degree
 Background Courses (0 – 6 hrs)
 Distribution Courses (12 hrs)
 Program Product (0 – 3 hrs)
 Technical writing (0 – 3 hrs)
 Electives (6 – 18 hrs)
 up to 12 hrs outside dept
 up to 6 hrs transferred from
previous graduate work
Total: 30 credit hours
Ph.D. Degree
 Technical communication (3 hrs)
 Individualized program of study
(0 – 30 hrs)
 primary concentration
 secondary concentration
 mathematical skills
 external supporting program
 Dissertation research ( 3 hrs)
Total: no fixed hour requirement
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Exam structure
M.S. Degree
• Integrative paper
Ph.D. Degree
• Qualifying exam (“Qual”)
or a bypass
OR
• Integrative paper (“IP”)
• MS comprehensive oral
exam
• (Dissertation proposal)
• Doctoral oral exam
• Final oral examination:
the “Defense”
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Admission to PhD program
• By vote of faculty based on consideration of
♦ Grades
• overall PC score  0 expected but not required
♦ Performance in assistantships
♦ Research potential and accomplishments
♦ Qualifying examination
• Examination of creativity, ability to integrate material, and formal
thinking
• May be waived if PC score > 2.0 and there exists strong faculty
support for admission
• May be attempted twice - forfeit counts as a failure
• Generally first considered in 3rd semester
♦ Faculty provides guidance on Qualifying exam candidacy
• Proceed, waive, or not recommended
♦ Admission considered following administration of Qualifying
exam
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Additional requirements
• Technical writing requirement (MS
only)
• Writing course option (COMP 291)
• Thesis option
• Outside review option
– previously written document meeting requirements
• Program product
• Course option
– Software Engineering (COMP 145)
– Advanced software engineering topics courses
» XP, systematic testing
• External project
– Industry or academic experience
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Additional requirements
• Residence credit
♦ MS: 2 semesters
♦ PhD: 4 semesters
• Classroom teaching requirement (PhD
only)
• Time limit
♦ 5 years for MS
♦ 8 years for PhD
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Graduate Studies Committee
• Review customized programs of study
against requirements
• Track progress and encourage it
• Act on petitions
♦ Presentation to faculty and graduate school
• Back-up advising + signatures
♦ me
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