It is taught in large lecture sections of 200 students each that meet for three hours a week over a 15-week semester. In addition to the lecture, the students have two hours a week of formal lab and two hours of open lab time a week. The labs are held in a 27-station departmental computer lab that is dedicated to CSE 101 for fifty hours a week. Maintenance and staffing of the lab for these hours are included in both the traditional and the redesigned analyses. They also help to staff the lab during open lab hours by holding their office hours in the lab.
Undergraduate students staff the lab during the rest of the open lab hours.
Decrease the number of lectures from three to two per week. This will be possible through the following changes. Many of the GTAs currently used for CSE 101 are not native English speakers and often find it difficult to communicate with computer literacy students. We have used a small number of undergraduate learning assistants in the past and have found them to be very effective. But since we do not allow undergraduate learning assistants to grade other undergraduates, we have been unable to completely replace the graduate GTAs.