Scheduling can be a pain – the possibility of your classes being full, the sessions expiring, and having to wake up at 7 a.m. The list goes on, but the worst issue I have come across is the Course Catalog. You would think this would be a simple document, containing all of the classes being offered in the Fall and Spring semesters; however, there are classes that are listed that haven’t been offered in years. As a senior Computer Engineering major leaning towards web development, I want to take classes that interest me. One class in particular is CPE/CS 537 – Interactive Computer Graphics. This class has been in several recent course catalogs, but the course itself has not been offered since Spring 2015. That’s 5 years! That’s before I even graduated high school!
I wanted to get the concentration “Image Processing and Multimedia.” CPE 537, along with 2 other courses out of the 6 recommended, are no longer held and have not been held for several semesters. This is not just an ECE students’ issue. Everyone I talk to, no matter what major, agrees: the course catalog lists classes that are no longer offered. Additionally, the catalog lists classes with the wrong name. CPE 440 – Current Topics in Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering, as listed in the course catalog, is listed as CPE 440 – Intro to AI Engineering on the course scheduler. This is not the first time this has occurred. It happened to me last year with my humanities class, making me switch classes because I was no longer interested in the one I was registered for. I don’t know who to speak to about these issues, but I would be willing to help update the catalog. I just don’t want any other students to be affected by these mistakes.
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