1. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Stuck in the Middle with You Master’s Level Curricula

2. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Panelists Elizabeth Adams –James Madison UniversitY Hans-Peter Bischof –Rochester Institute of Technology Don Goelman –Villanova University Roberta Evans Sabin –Loyola College

3. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Overview I.Our institutions II.Our departments III.Our master’s-level programs IV.Our audience V.Our curricula VI.Our “gotchas”

4. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Descriptive vs Prescriptive Questions for audience –Why are you here? –What do you want to know?

5. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Our Institutions JMURITVillanovaLoyolaAudience Location Size Focus Highest Degree

6. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Our Departments JMURITVillanovaLoyolaAudience highest degree u.g. degrees formed #faculty #majors # minors

7. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Our Master’s-Level Programs JMURITVillanovaLoyolaAudience # degrees focus when began size faculty Presentation Mode

8. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel More … about our degree programs –objectives about others‘ degree programs

9. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Our Master’s-Level Students JMURITVillanovaLoyolaAudience full-time part time background day night support % intl goals

10. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel More about students

11. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Our Master’s-Level Curricula JMURITVillanovaLoyolaAudience # credit hours time to complete thesis ? comprehensive exam? project? retention

12. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Our Master’s-Level Curricula JMURITVillanovaLoyolaAudience deficiencies core courses electives

13. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Pre-Core Courses Computer Programming Computer Organization Data structures and algorithms Discrete Mathematics

14. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Pre-Core

15. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Core Courses Secure Software Engineering Operating Systems Database Systems Software Engineering Analysis of Algorithms Programming Languages Information Security Requirements and Design Networking and Security Software Quality Assurance Secure Network Operations Elective/Thesis

16. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Core Courses Information Security Operating Systems Formal Methods for Information Security Ethics, Law and Policy in Cyberspace Software Engineering Networks and Network Security Database Systems Cryptography: Algorithms and Applications Advanced Network Security Secure Operations and Audit Distributed Computing Security and Privacy Trusted Systems Elective/Thesis

17. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Core Courses (Villanova) Programming Languages Theory of Computability Automata Theory Computer Organization Operating Systems

18. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Core Courses - RIT Algorithms Foundations of computing theory

19. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Electives (Villanova) Distributed systems Networks Data communication Network management Databases Advanced databases Artifical intelligence Expert systems HCI Software engineering Advanced software engineering System programming Advanced systems programming System administration Computer graphics Object oriented design & programming Multimedia Programming

20. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Elective Clusters – RIT Theory Security Distributed Systems Compiler/Language Tools Algorithms AI Computer Graphics

21. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel More about our Curricula

22. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Our Gotchas JMURITVillanovaLoyolaAudience attracting students critical mass comprehensive exams double-duty courses

23. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Gotchas?? Or not?? critical mass double-duty courses students - pre and post 9/11 comprehensive exams certificates

24. CCSC Eastern 2004 - Master's Level Panel Questions????