The chair and co-chair of each focus area must be experts in the assigned area. Each focus group will invite up to five additional members. If we do, the core will be a minimal set that may be used to develop four and not more than six courses. Similarly we may impose constraints on the expected number of knowledge units, intermediate courses, and technical electives.
Flexibility is the goal.
Please be advised that we hope to develop a computing curriculum to be useful for a wide range of undergraduate programs in computing with varying resource constraints and diverse needs, and differences between quarter, semester, trimester, and year-long courses. Additionally, our survey results strongly suggest that we should pay attention to the accreditation criteria for both CS and CSE programs. Please also note that we intend to work with the international community so that the final CC-2001 report will be globally acceptable. The separation of knowledge units into three levels offers a great flexibility to curriculum builders. The core courses could be developed to cover the freshman and sophomore years, thus suitable for the 2-year colleges to consider naturally.