CIS 599 - CIS Graduate Seminar

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Graduate Students in Computer and Information Science
Course includes department seminar presentations by speakers from industry and academia in addition to UMass Dartmouth faculty, and CIS Master student thesis defense presentations that are scheduled during the seminar course time slot (this time slot will be announced at the beginning of each semester). Students are required to attend these presentations and participate in technical discussions and write a report by the end of the semester.

The following policy is to be added into the program requirement and/or catalog.
All CIS graduate students are expected to attend and participate in the graduate seminars as part of their program. Attendance will be taken. In order to pass the course, at least 80% attendance rate is required. In addition, a one-page report, which describes at least two seminars attended, must be submitted by the end of each academic semester. Each graduate student must enroll in this course for two semesters. Pass/Fail