Dear students,
Fast version if you’re short on time:
1. Please fill out your MyPlan for the next year with what courses you hope to take
2. The tentative teaching schedule will be out around May 1st
3. Machine Learning will not, at this point in time, be offered this fall, but we’ll have an offering in winter and a large one in spring. If we hire new faculty, we may be able to add it back for fall. We’re really sorry. 🙁
4. The Virtual Reality capstone will be making a come-back for the 2018-2019 academic year!
5. If you are graduating in fall or winter this next year, apply to graduate by May 2nd, 2018 to get graduating senior priority registration of May 4th.
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Longer version – more details:
First, it is REALLY important that all of you put your desired courses in your MyPlan for the next year. We have recently been given a window into MyPlan data so we can run analysis on what students want to take in the coming year. We obviously have a lot of constraints on when/how often we can offer certain courses, but this is an amazing new tool that we would like to take advantage of as soon as possible. Please only put the courses you really plan to take (don’t stack them all up to skew the statistics).
Registration for fall quarter is going to come up fast, it’s starting on May 4th for graduating students. We hope/plan to have the tentative teaching schedule out to you by May 1st so you can plan for the upcoming year.
There are going to be some changes in store, some you’ll like (VR capstones returning, probably fall and spring, two offerings of 446, one BIG one in the spring) and some you will not like (no one to teach 446 – machine learning in fall) but things are still changing. We are hoping to hire some additional faculty, and if that goes well, we’ll be able to likely add some additional courses, but that will happen as we move into summer.
Finally, we hope capstones will be posted for sign ups in early summer so stay tuned for that too.
April 18, 2018
