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Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. A Welcome and Orientation to UCI and the Bren School of ICS. As a courtesy to your academic counselor and the people around you, please turn off your: Cell phone Pager Anything else that might be disruptive Thank you!.
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Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences A Welcome and Orientation to UCI and the Bren School of ICS
As a courtesy to your academic counselor and the people around you, please turn off your: • Cell phone • Pager • Anything else that might be disruptive Thank you!
Bren School Student Affairs Office • Contacting the office • Telephone: (949) 824-5156 • E-mail: ucounsel@uci.edu • Web: www.ics.uci.edu • Office Hours • Monday –Friday: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. & 1-4 p.m.
Bren School of ICS Peer Advisors • Juan “Igii” Enverga, Chris Prijic, and SaloniSoni • Meet students on a walk-in basis • Check their website for hours • Can help you with • Academic planning • Scheduling issues • Campus resources • Changing/Adding Majors • Minors • Academic progress check / Graduation Check • Non-academic issues • Stress management • Time management • Success strategies • ucounsel@uci.edu • 949-824-8010
Clubs and Organizations • Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) • http://acmuci.com/ • CampuswideHonors Program (CHP) • www.honors.uci.edu • Design, Art, Technology Makerspace (DATspace) • http://www.datspace.net/ • ICS Student Council • http://student-council.ics.uci.edu/ • Management Information Student Society (MAISS) • http://maissuci.weebly.com/ • Video Game Development Club (VGDC) • http://vgdc-uci.com/ • Women in Information and Computer Sciences (WICS) • http://wics.ics.uci.edu/
Your UCI Catalogue Rights • 2013-14 isyour catalogue year • You are held to the policies and requirements in this catalogue • Answers for almost 90% of general student questions can be found here • The 2013-14 catalog will be available online in July: http://www.editor.uci.edu/catalogue/
Your UCI Degree is Made up of: UC Requirements General Education Requirements 1. UC Entry Level Writing 1. Writing (3) 2. American History & Institutions 2. Science and Technology (3) 3. Unit Requirement 3. Social and Behavior Sciences (3) 4. Residency Requirement 4. Arts and Humanities (3) 5. Grade Requirement 5. Quantitative, Symbolic and 6. General Education Computational Reasoning (3) 6. Language Other Than English (1– 3) 7. Multicultural Studies (1) 8. International/Global Issues (1) Individual requirements depending on your major. Major Requirements
Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences #1-5. UC Requirements
1. UC Entry Level Writing Ways to Satisfy the UC Entry Level Writing Requirement: • Score 680 or better on the Writing section of the SAT Reasoning Test, or score 30 or higher on the ACT Combined English/Writing test; or • Score 3 or higher on either AP English (Language or Literature) exam; or • Pass the Analytical Writing Placement Exam; or • Complete a transferable college course in composition with a grade of “C” or better before entering UCI; or • Complete UC Analytical Writing/Subject A equivalent course at UCI (Writing 39A, Writing 37, Humanities 1A/SA); or • Score of 5 or above on the International Baccalaureate Higher Level English A exam.
#2. American History and Institutions • One year of U.S. History, or one semester of U.S. History and one semester of U.S. Government in high school with a “C” or better; or • A score of 3, 4, or 5 in AP U.S. History; or • A score of 550 or higher in the SAT II American History exam; or • One year of college-level U.S. History, or one course in U.S. History and one in U.S. Government with a “C” or better
#2. American History and Institutions (continued) • If you have not fulfilled this requirement, then you may enroll in the following: • History 40ABC • One course from History 40ABC and Political Science 21A (total of 2 courses)
#3, 4, & 5. Unit, Residency and Grade Requirements • You must graduate with a minimum of 180 units. • At least 36 of the last 45 units for your degree must be completed at UCI • Grade Requirement: 2.0 GPA • In all UC courses • In all courses required for your major • In all UD courses required for your major
Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences #6. General Education Requirements
General Education- 8 categories • Writing • Lower-division • Upper-division (your major requirements may satisfy this) • Science and Technology • Your major satisfies this requirement; CSE majors require additional science courses. • Social and Behavioral Sciences • Arts and Humanities • Quantitative, Symbolic, and Computational Reasoning • Your major satisfies this requirement • Foreign Language • Multicultural Studies • International/Global Issues
Option 1: Option 2: Category I: LD Writing Entry Level Writing Entry Level Writing • Students are not permitted to add, drop, or change grade option after the second week of classes • Writing 39A, Writing 37, or Humanities 1A/SA may be taken to satisfy UC Entry Level Writing • Lower division writing must be completed with a “C” or better
The Humanities Core Course, HUMAN 1A-B-C: Overview • A year-long, double-credit, integrated sequence of lectures and discussions by award-winning faculty from across the humanities. • Progressively develop writing skills while working with classic texts from a variety of cultures • 8 units of course credit per quarter in Fall, Winter, and Spring fulfills UCIGeneral Education requirements WAR Lower Division Writing: 2 courses Arts and Humanities: 3 courses Multicultural Studies: 1 course https://eee.uci.edu/programs/humcore/Student/AboutCore.html
Category I: UD Writing • Upper division writing 1) must be completed with a grade of “C” or better and 2) must be taken at UCI. • CS and SE Majors - Required to take ICS 139W. • In4matx Majors – Requirement will be completed through Informatics 162W for those pursuing the OIT specialization. • CSE Majors – Requirement will be completed through CSE 181CW. • BIM, CGS, In4matx (HCI) Majors – May take any upper division course with a “W” suffix (ex: ICS 139W, Social Science 185W, Engineering 190W, etc).
Category II: Science and Technology (Major Specific!) • BIM, CGS, CS, In4matx and SE Majors: The 3 required courses will already be completed through ICS 31, 32, 33. • CS students: You must also select two additional GE II courses (except those offered by CSE, Economics, ICS, or Mathematics). University Studies courses can be used with the approval of the CS Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies. • CSE Majors: Complete 18 units of basic science courses including Physics 7C/LC, Physics 7D/LD, and the remainder from the approved Science Elective list.
Category III: Social and Behavioral Sciences • You must complete 3 courses for this category. • Can overlap with category VII and category VIII of the UCI General Education requirements. • Category III courses include such topics as: Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Linguistics, Psychology, and Sociology • CGS majors will receive credit for 1 course via their degree requirement of ICS 60
Category IV: Arts & Humanities • You must complete 3 courses from the following areas: • Arts • Art History, Studio Art, Dance, Drama, Fine Arts • Humanities • Classics, History, Humanities, Philosophy • Literature • Classics, English and Comparative Literature, French, Humanities, Russian, Spanish • Interdisciplinary Studies • African-American Studies, Women’s Studies • Can overlap with category VII and VIII of the UCI General Education requirement • CGS majors will receive credit for 1 course via their degree requirement of Film & Media St. 85A or 85C
Category V: Quantitative, Symbolic & ComputationalReasoning All Bren ICS Majors will satisfy this category via their degree requirements
Category VI: Foreign Language • Language competency other than English must be demonstrated through one of the following options: • 3 years of high school language or its equivalent with a C or better in both semesters • Score of 3 or higher on the AP Language exam • Score of 570 or better on SAT II language exam; a score of 500 or better on the SAT II Modern Hebrew exam (Note: test score format has changed recently) • Completion of an approved course of study through EAP • Exemption by examination available in some languages, check out http://www.testingcenter.uci.edu/. • Completion of 1C level of a language taught at UCI or the equivalent at another college or university
Category VII: Multicultural Studies Complete 1 course from the list of General Education courses for this category. Courses can potentially overlap with categories III and IV of the UCI General Education requirement.
Category VIII: International/Global Issues Complete 1 course from the list of General Education courses for this category. Courses can potentially overlap with categories III and IV of the UCI General Education requirement. • Along with the courses from the approved list, this may also be fulfilled by: • one quarter participation in the Education Abroad Program and corresponding course. • completion of the 4th year equivalent of high school foreign language with a C or better in both semesters • A score of 4 or 5 on the AP language other than English exam • 620 or better on the SAT II language other than English exam; 540 or better on the SAT II Modern Hebrew exam • Exemption by examination available in some languages. Check out http://www.testingcenter.uci.edu/.
Taking courses outside UCI • Courses may be completed outside of UCI to satisfy general education and elective courses • You must take all major courses at UCI • Students may petition to take up to four approved UC-transferable lower-division classes, except for writing classes, at a community college or other university. • Check with http://www.assist.org/ to make sure community college courses will transfer!
Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences BIM, CGS, CS, CSE, IN4MATX and SE Major Requirements
Business Information Management (BIM) • Jointly offered by the Bren School of ICS and the Paul Merage School of Business. • BIM students will fall under the authority of the Bren School of ICS, which will provide all of the counseling resources for the students. • Due to the limited amount of space available for this major, we will NOT accept any students that belong to the 2013-14 cohort.
Business Information Management • Lower-division Informatics/ICS, Econ, and Mgmt courses (9) • Lower-division mathematics courses (5) • Upper-division Informatics, Math, Mgmt and elective • courses (20) Just the Basics: Total Number of Classes: 34 Informatics/CS Courses: Mathematics Courses: • Math 2AB • Stats 7/8/67 • ICS 6D • Math 6G or ICS 6N • Stats 110 • Lower-division: • ICS 31, 32, 33, and 45J, or • Inf 41, Inf 42, and either Inf 45 or ICS 46), or • ICS 21, 22 and either Inf 45 or ICS 46; • Inf 43 or ICS 52; • Upper-division: • CS 121/Inf 141, CS 122A, Inf 113, Inf 143 Major Electives: • 3 UD Bren electives • 2 UD electives • 1 UD Writing Management: • Lower-division: Mgmt 30AB • Upper-division: Mgmt 101, 102, • 105, 107, 109, 110,173, 178,189 Economics: • Lower-division: Econ 20AB
Computer Game Science Just the Basics: Total Number of Major Courses: 34 • Lower-division Bren School courses (10) • Lower-division mathematics courses (6) • Upper-division Bren School courses (16) • Physics and Film and Media (2) Bren School Courses Mathematics Courses: • Lower-division: ICS 31, 32, 33, 45C, 46, 51, 60, 61, 62; INF 43 • Upper-division: 11 core and 5 electives • ICS 6D (discrete math) • ICS 6B (boolean algebra and logic) • Math 6G or ICS 6N (linear algebra) • Math 2A-B (calculus) • Statistics 67 Physics and Film and Media Studies: • Physics 3A • Film and Media Studies 85A or 85C
Computer Science Just the Basics: Total Number of Major Courses: 32 • Lower-division Bren School courses (9) • Lower-division mathematics courses (6) • Science courses (2) • Upper-division Bren School courses (15) Bren School Courses Mathematics Courses: • Lower-division: • ICS 31, 32, 33, 45C, 46, 51, 53, 53L; INF 43 • Upper-division: • CS 161 and ICS 139W • 2 Project courses • 11 Elective CS courses • At least 1 specialization • ICS 6D (discrete math) • ICS 6B (boolean algebra and logic) • ICS 6N or Math 3A (linear algebra) • Math 2A-B (calculus) • Statistics 67 Science Courses: • 2 courses approved from GE II, except any from ICS, Eng, Math and Econ. • *Uni Studies courses must be approved via petition by the CS Vice-Chair prior to taking them for this category.
Computer Science & Engineering Total Number of Major Classes: 33 Just the Basics: • Lower-division CSE/INF courses (11) • Lower-division mathematics courses (8) • 18 units of basic science (5) • Approved science electives (2) • Upper-division CSE courses (17) Mathematics Courses: • Math 2A-B-D (calculus) • ICS 6D (discrete math) • ICS 6B (boolean algebra) • Math 3A (linear algebra) • Math 3D (elem diff equations) • Stats 67 (probability and stats) CSE Courses: • Lower-division: CSE 41, 42, 43, 45C, 46, 25, 31, 31L, 50, 70A, 90; INF 43 • Upper-division: 15 engineering and computing topics • Choose 2 electives from list of approved computing and engineering courses Science Courses: • Physics 2, 7C/LC, and 7D/LD • 8 units of approved basic science courses
Informatics Just the Basics: Total Number of Classes: 26-27 • Lower-division Informatics & ICS courses (6) • Lower-division mathematics courses (2) • Upper-division Informatics & CS courses (18-19) Informatics Courses: • Lower-division: ICS 31, 32, 33, 45J, 90; INF 43 • Upper-division: 8 courses • Track Courses: 10-11 courses Tracks: • Human-Computer • Interaction (HCI) • Organizations and • Information Technology (OIT) Mathematics Courses: • ICS 6B • Stats 7 or 67
Software Engineering Just the Basics: Total Number of Classes: 34 • Lower-division Informatics & ICS courses (8) • Lower-division mathematics courses (6) • Upper-division Informatics & CS courses (20) Informatics and ICS Courses: • Lower-division: • ICS 21-22, or INF 41-42, or ICS 31-32-33; • ICS 45C; • ICS 45J; • ICS 46; • In4matx 43 or ICS 52; • ICS 51 • Upper-division: • 16 core requirements • 4 electives Mathematics Courses: • Math 2A-B, • ICS 6B, • ICS 6D, • ICS 6N • Stats 67
AP Exams Exam Score Class Credit for Computer Science: A Exam 3, 4 or 5 ICS/CSE 21 (must take ICS 31) AB Exam 3 ICS/CSE 21 (must take ICS 31) 4 or 5ICS/CSE 21 and 22 (skip ICS 31-33) Mathematics: AB Exam 4 or 5 Math 2A BC Exam 3Math 2A 4 or 5 Math 2A and 2B Physics: Exam C, Part I or II 4 or 5 Physics 2 Exam C, Part I 5 Physics 3A Exam C, Part II 5 Physics 3B Chemistry: AP Chemistry Exam 4 or 5 Chemistry 1A + 4 elective units Statistics: AP Statistics 3, 4, or 5 Statistics 7 Economics Macroeconomics 4 or 5 Economics 20B Microeconomics 4 or 5 Economics 20A
Sample Fall Schedule for Majors BIMCGSCS Econ 20A (4) ICS 31 (4) ICS 31 (4) Math 2A (4) Math 2A (4)Math 2A (4) WR 39A (4) ICS 60 (4)WR 39A (4) ICS 90 (1) CSEICS-UDIN4MATXSE CSE 41 (4) ICS 31 (4) ICS 31 (4) ICS 31 (4) Math 2A (4) Math 2A (4) Stats 7 (4) Math 2A (4) Gen. Ed. (I) or WR 39A (4) WR 39A (4) WR 39A (4) Physics 2 (4) ICS 90 (1) *** If writing courses are full, please substitute with a GE III or GE IV course.
ICS 90: New Students Seminar • 1 unit course taught by Bren School Lecturers Richard Pattis and David Kay • No grade earned, P/NP only • Goal is to help new students transition to UCI • Focus will include community building and mostly surveying the technical areas within departments in ICS, via talks by faculty on their research • Mandatory for CS and Informatics majors only • CS Majors: you can take this course later this year
UniStu 93: Strategies for Success in Information and Computer Sciences • Course taught through the Learning and Academic Resource Center (LARC) – offered winter and spring quarters. • Goal is to develop good study skills in technical fields • Topics include time management, analytical thinking, text analysis, academic survival strategies, and goal setting
Bren School of ICS Degree/Major Requirements All courses taken to satisfy your Bren ICS major requirements (including Math, Writing, Film, and Science where applicable) must be taken for a letter grade!!!
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Academic Honesty Policy Please visit www.ics.uci.edu/ugrad/policies
Bren School of ICS Academic Honesty Policy • The following examples are considered as academically dishonest: • Copying during an exam or quiz • Copying a person’s homework • Sharing code during a lab assignment • Sharing notes and problem solutions • Any joint effort when individual effort is required. • Do not assume anything, ask questions.
Bren School of ICS Academic Honesty Policy • What could happen if you are caught or suspected of academic dishonesty? • An automatic F in the assignment, quiz or exam, OR • An automatic F in the course, OR • Expulsion from the University (this may occur if you have been caught more than once.) • A letter/report will be placed in your student file within the school and at the university level for at least two years.
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Important Policies and Deadlines
Add/Drop/Change Policy • Deadline to add a course: Friday of Week 3 • Deadline to drop a course: Friday of Week 2 • Deadline to change grade option/units: Friday of Week 2 Exceptions can be made, given that there are extenuating circumstances that can be documented. Approvals are required by instructors and the Dean of the School that is offering the course and the Dean of the School that houses your major. Please see our homepage for further details.
University privacy policy • By law, the ICS Student Affairs Office and other UCI officials may not release any student information such as GPA, grades, fees paid, attendance, transcript, or any other academic information to ANY ONE without consent from the student. • Please see the UCI General Catalogue Appendix for more details.
University privacy policy continued… • What does this mean for you? • Parents or anyone else may not call to find out the status of their student • Registration • Grades • Academic Status • Students must be the point of contact with any campus official
Official Transcripts • All transcripts (high school, community college, university) must be submitted to the Office of Admissions by: July 15 * *your admission will be rescinded if you pass this deadline • Office of Admissions and Relations with Schools260 Aldrich HallIrvine, CA 92697-1075 • Admissions will place a hold on enrollment if transcripts are late
Statement of Legal Residence • Used to make a determination of residence classification for tuition fee purposes. • All students should have submitted the Statement of Legal Residence form with the SIR • The link to the Statement of Legal Residence form is located on your online MyAdmissions page
Undergraduate StudentHealth Insurance • ALL undergraduate students are required to carry adequate health insurance • Included in Undergraduate Student Fees. • Can be waived if private insurance is evaluated to be equal or superior to policy provided by UCI • Consult the UCI General Catalogue or the web at www.shs.uci.edu for further clarification • Deadline to submit online waiver form: September 12
Undergraduate StudentFee Payment • Zotbill • When your Zotbill is available for viewing, you will be sent an email. It is your responsibility to periodically check your Zotbill to see if there are any charges. • More information can be found at the Student Billing website: https://zotaccount.uci.edu/ • Fees must be paid by 4PM on September 16to avoid being dropped from courses. • Late service charges are assessed for fee payment after this date. Please refer to the Schedule of Classes or the UCI Registrar’s web site at www.reg.uci.edu for more information.
UCI E-mail Account • You should have already activated your UCInetID through your MyAdmission Page • This is also your UCI email • Example: Peter Anteater • E-mail: panteater@uci.edu • UCInetID: panteater • UCI and Bren School of ICS Staff will only respond to e-mail sent by a UCI e-mail account • For any questions and support about UCInetIDs, you may contact the Office of Information Technology (OIT): www.oit.uci.edu