Transcript Novica Nosović Faculty of Electrical Engineering Universitz

Novica Nosović
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Harmonizing CS curricula at the
University of Sarajevo with Bologna
declaration and EC initiatives
Bologna Declaration
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a) Background
b) Where is our CS/CE curricula now?
c) Where we want to go?
d) How can we get there?
e) What are we doing now?
(Where to put our JCSE??)
Background
• The Bologna Process, which follows the signing
of the Bologna Declaration in June 1999 by
higher education (HE) Ministers from 29
European nations, seeks to create a ‘European
Higher Education Area’, characterised by a
common structure of ‘readable and comparable’
degrees and other related features. The Process
has the broad aims of improving quality,
promoting mobility and increasing the
attractiveness of Europe’s universities to
overseas students and to international
employers of graduates.
Background (2)
• The most controversial objective of the Process
is to introduce a system of 1st (Bachelors), and
2nd cycle (Masters) degrees to replace the
single long degrees which have existed until
now in most subjects in most European nations.
This objective threatens the nature and
existence of the 4-year first-degree qualifications
and might remove the possibility of direct
progression from BSc degrees to PhD
programmes.
Where is our CS/CE curricula now?
• 9 semester study + diploma (in average 78 years)
• Majority of 2-semester courses
• “traditional engineering” oriented
• Fare more fundamentals than skils
• No elective courses
Where we want to go?
• 6 semester study for B.Sc. Degree?
• Additional 3 to 4 semesters for M.Sc.?
• Computer Science or Computer
Engineering?
• More skills than fundamentals?
• Elective courses
• Tempus project 16110-2001
How can we get there?
• By shortening B.Sc. study with selected
fundamentals and more skils
• By shifting the rest of esential
fundamentals to M.Sc. study
• By switching to ‘readable and comparable’
one-semester courses
• Elective courses as a way of updating
currucula over time
What are we doing now?
• More than one view to the problem
• During the last 4-5 years, several
initiatives on all the departments
• Efectively – Actively waiting to see if we
REALLY have to do something
• “Scanning horizons” (see the slide
background)