Course Description:

Bachelor of Computer Science

Content, training methods and number of the credits of learning courses of the program provides achievement of a goal and results.
The program follows the ECTS system, 1 credit equals to 25 hours, which includes the contact hours, as well as the hours of independent work. The distribution of hours is presented in the educational plan. The duration of the program is 4 years (8 semesters, 60 credits in a year) and it contains not less than 240 credits. For getting Bachelor’s degree the student must master 240 credits. From here 210 credits are the credits of basic specialties and 30 credits are the credits of free teaching components. From 210 credits of basic specialty 198 credits are obligatory and 12 credits are selective from 30 credits volume of speciality obligatory selective teaching courses. From 210 credits 6 credits are selected out for teaching practice and 12 credits – for final project.

The annual learning process:

The annual learning process contains two semesters, with duration 21 weeks each of them. Student’s assessments are realized by means of current activities, mid-semester exams and final/additional exams. The duration of the learning process is 15 weeks. The dates of mid-semester and final exams are regulated before beginning every semester by Rector’s order about schedule of education. The student has a right to pass final exam when he/she collected established minimum positive assessments: in ongoing activities (15 points) and in mid-semester exam (7.5 point). Minimal positive assessment of the final/additional exam is 10 points. A semester contains 30 credits and, accordingly, a year contains 60 credits. Assessment of the student’s knowledge is realized by maximum 100 points, from which 60 points are mid-semester assessments (ongoing activities and mid-semester exam) and 40 points – final exam. Assessment forms of mid-semester and final exams are described in the programs (syllabi) of educational courses.

Evaluating Student Performance:

Educational courses in the semesters are distributed as follows. In I, II and III semesters of the first, second and third educational years a student learns six courses (in I and II semesters four of the courses contains 5 credits, one – 4 credits and one – 6 credits, in III semester all of six courses contains 5 credits) which in a semester gives 30 credits. The courses belong to mathematics, physics, English, information technologies, fundamentals of computer engineering and computer science. During IV and V semester a student learns five courses with 6 credits each, and in VI semester from five courses with 6 credits only four are obligatory and from two selective courses only one is obligatory and teaching practice with 6 credits. In the first semester of the fourth year only two from five courses with six credits is obligatory for a student and from three selective courses only one is obligatory and final project with 12 credits. In the second semester of the fourth year from free components student choose courses so that the sum of selected courses was not less than 30 credits. There were used many educational programs of data sciences of the bachelor level of well known in the world universities at development of the program. For example, see following sites: 1. Illinois Institute of Technology https://illinoistech.cambridgeeducationgroup.com/programs/undergraduate/bs-computer-science/ 2. Harbour.Space - University for Technology and Design In Barselona https://www.bachelorstudies.com/Bachelor-of-Computer-Science/Spain/Harbour-Space/ 3. Keele University, UK https://www.keele.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/computerscience/ 4. Iowa State University, USA http://catalog.iastate.edu/collegeofliberalartsandsciences/computerscience/ 5. Chicago State University, USA https://www.csu.edu/macs/undercugc.htm San Diego State University SDSU_GeneralCatalog-full-cover-17-18.pdf ; page-196 (Annex 11).

The program is also developed in accordance with the ABET accreditation standards and it corresponds to ABET accredited bachelor programs () in computer science by structure and organization: 1. Abilene Christian University) (USA) http://catalog.acu.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=2&poid=444 2. Illinois State University (USA) https://web.iit.edu/sites/web/files/departments/academicaffairs/undergraduate-academic-affairs/pdfs/2018-2019_UG_Bulletin_final.pdf (p. 183) 3. Michigan Technology University (USA) https://www.mtu.edu/cs/undergraduate/computer-science/