IN
- Input topics are covered in the prerequisite chain
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Assumed to be understood
- Not covered in the course except in a cursory review
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Basic Idea
Courses in the curriculum should be matched so that all required inputs correspnd to outputs from prerequisite courses.
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I/O Diagrams are concrete enough to ensure quality and consistency of purpose
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Flexible enough to accommodate new fashions, technologies, designs, science, pedagogy, etc.
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No course in the curriculum should assume an input that is not an absolute output of at least one other course in its prerequisite chain.
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Redundancy should be managed by ensuring that courses do not have highly redundant outputs
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The I/O Diagrams are living documents, under the control of faculty groups and Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
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Posted on the ECE website
Application of I/O Diagrams
- Faculty use them to guide curriculum development and delivery.
- Students know what they know.
- Employers know what our students know.
- Department knows what interconnects need to be better managed, what redundancies need to be managed, etc.
- Revised in course groups on a 3 year rotating schedule or at request of faculty group.
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OUT
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Output topics are covered in depth in 10 weeks, meaning 10/14 weeks of course is proscribed
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The remaining 4 weeks of course are devoted to topics of instructor choice
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A C student understands output topics and an A student has master them
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Each ouptut topic can be counted on as an input to any course for which this course is a prerequisite
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It is assumed that these output topics are the topics that will be tested for in the course
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Outputs are generally of two varieties: “understandings” and “can doings.”
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Optional topics, denoted with asterisks, may be drawn from at discretion of instructor.
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