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Graduation Requirements Card



Procedure for Obtaining Signature of Chairperson


Graduating seniors need the signature of the CIS department chairperson (Br. David Carlson) on this card by the deadline given by the registrar. (In addition, if a student has a minor or other major, the chair(s) of these departments must sign.) In order for Br. David to sign that graduation requirements card, the following are needed:
  • Br. David needs to check the student's audit sheet (which the chair can do online) to verify that the needed CS courses were taken and that the grades in the major are OK (no F's in needed CS courses and a GPA of at least 2.0 in CS).
  • Give Br. David an electronic copy of your SRS document for your senior project. You can email it to carlsond@stvincent.edu as an attachment or bring it to the office, Physics 201.
  • Fill out and return the short exit survey available at Br. David's office.
  • Declare your concentration (CS, IT, BIN, or SEC) using the form available at the registrar's office. Ideally you should declare your concentration before your last semester.

Br. David's Comments:


Once these items look OK, I'll sign the card. I may ask students to make changes in their SRS document if they did not follow what we asked for. A key item is that the document should give a clear summary in good English of what the project is as well as its overall design. For a software project, for example, there ought to be a paragraph that explains to a layman what the software does and there should be a short overview of how the project was designed (e.g. it may have used Visual Basic .NET 2007 and the SQL Server database, with an object-oriented design). The rest of the document can go on to give the technical details. Examples of the kind of summaries that are desired can be found in the Example Senior Projects section of these web pages.

The signature on the requirements card is, of course, conditional. Should a student fail the senior project or some other course that is needed, that student would not graduate, at least not at the normal time. (It is possible to complete work later and then graduate in August or December.)

Maintained by: Br. David Carlson
Last updated: June 12, 2009