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Harmonizing CS Curricula at University of Sarajevo: Bologna Declaration and EC Initiatives

This article discusses harmonizing CS curricula at the University of Sarajevo with the Bologna Declaration and EC initiatives to improve quality, promote mobility, and increase the attractiveness of European universities. It explores the current state of the CS/CE curricula, future goals, strategies to achieve them, and current initiatives in progress.

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Harmonizing CS Curricula at University of Sarajevo: Bologna Declaration and EC Initiatives

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  1. Novica NosovićFaculty of Electrical EngineeringUniversity of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Harmonizing CS curricula at the University of Sarajevo with Bologna declaration and EC initiatives

  2. Bologna Declaration • a) Background • b) Where is our CS/CE curricula now? • c) Where we want to go? • d) How can we get there? • e) What are we doing now? (Where to put our JCSE??)

  3. Background • The Bologna Process, which follows the signing of the Bologna Declaration in June 1999 by higher education (HE) Ministers from 29 European nations, seeks to create a ‘European Higher Education Area’, characterised by a common structure of ‘readable and comparable’ degrees and other related features. The Process has the broad aims of improving quality, promoting mobility and increasing the attractiveness of Europe’s universities to overseas students and to international employers of graduates.

  4. Background (2) • The most controversial objective of the Process is to introduce a system of 1st (Bachelors), and 2nd cycle (Masters) degrees to replace the single long degrees which have existed until now in most subjects in most European nations. This objective threatens the nature and existence of the 4-year first-degree qualificationsand might remove the possibility of direct progression from BSc degrees to PhD programmes.

  5. Where is our CS/CE curricula now? • 9 semester study + diploma (in average 7-8 years) • Majority of 2-semester courses • “traditional engineering” oriented • Fare more fundamentals than skils • No elective courses

  6. Where we want to go? • 6 semester study for B.Sc. Degree? • Additional 3 to 4 semesters for M.Sc.? • Computer Science or Computer Engineering? • More skills than fundamentals? • Elective courses • Tempus project 16110-2001

  7. How can we get there? • By shortening B.Sc. study with selected fundamentals and more skils • By shifting the rest of esential fundamentals to M.Sc. study • By switching to ‘readable and comparable’ one-semester courses • Elective courses as a way of updating currucula over time

  8. What are we doing now? • More than one view to the problem • During the last 4-5 years, several initiatives on all the departments • Efectively – Actively waiting to see if we REALLY have to do something • “Scanning horizons” (see the slide background)

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