CSC 342 010, Spring 2022 Syllabus

General Information

Instructor:: Dr. Dylan Schwesinger
Office:: Old Main 250; Phone: (484) 646 - 4389
email:: schwesin@kutztown.edu
Web URL:: https://faculty.kutztown.edu/schwesin
Office Hours:: MoWeFr 9:30am – 10:30am, TuTh 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Meeting Time & Place:: Section 010: TuTh 3:00pm – 4:20pm, OM 159

Course Description: This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of technologies that are used on the web. Topics include: web basics, standards, and infrastructure, client/server architecture on the web, page presentation using markup languages and style sheets, the Document Object Model (DOM), clientside programming and server-side programming, web data presentation, and web services.

Prerequisite: CSC 242

Textbook: None

Course Organization

Your participation in the course will involve the following activities:

Attending the lectures
Doing assignments
Reading the text

Regular attendance and class participation are expected. Students are responsible for all material covered in class.

Policies

Assignments

All assignments are due by the specified day and time. Late assignments will not be accepted. All assignments must include the following information: your name, the course (CSC 342), semester, year, and assignment number. Programming assignments must follow the Computer Science Documentation Standards. Failure to meet these expectations will result in a 10% penalty for that assignment.

Final Grade Assignment

Each student will receive a numeric score for the course based on a weighted average of the following:

Assignments (60%): There will be several assignments which combined will count for 60% of the course grade. Assignments may have different weights based on the perception of the relative effort required.
Midterm Project (20%): The will be a midterm programming project that will count for 20% of the final grade.
Final Project (20%): The will be a final programming project that will count for 20% of the final grade.

The letter grade cutoff points are 93 (A), 90 (A-), 87 (B+), 83 (B), 80 (B-), 77 (C+), 70 (C), 60 (D).

Bonus Points: The instructor will selectively consider raising individual grades for students just below the cutoffs based on factors such as attendance, class participation, improvement throughout the course, and special circumstances.

Academic Dishonesty

All students should familiarize themselves with the Computer Science Academic Integrity Policy

Assignments will be closely monitored for plagiarism. All infractions will be reported to the department chair. The penalty for cheating will be determined on a case-by-case basis, but it will always be worse than having not turned in the assignment.

Email Correspondence

The preferred method of course communication is email. When sending email, please indicate the course number in the subject line by placing it within square brackets, for example, “[CSC 342] Need help on Assignment 1”. All email correspondence must sent from your Kutztown University email address. You can expect a response to an email with a properly formatted subject line within 24 hours. An email with an improperly formatted subject line may get no response at all.

Classroom Etiquette

Consideration for your classmates, instructor, and class is expected. Please come to class on time and prepared to learn. There should be no classroom conversations, sleeping, cell phone usage, or other disruptions to the class.

Accreditation

Any course work submitted to the instructor (including but not limited to assignments, tests, and projects) may be photocopied and retained for the purpose of assessment, accreditation and quality improvement, after removal of any information identifying the student.

Students with Disabilities

Students with diagnosed disabilities or special needs that require accommodations for this course must first contact the Disability Services Office, located in the Office of Human Diversity at 215 Stratton Administration Building. If you have already disclosed a disability, please feel free to speak with me privately so that I may assist you.

Gender-Based Crimes

Educators must report incidents of gender-based crimes, including sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, dating violence, and domestic violence. If a student discloses such incidents to me during class or in a course assignment, I am not required to report the disclosure, unless the student was a minor at the time the incident occurred. Regardless of the student’s age, if the incident is disclosed to me outside the classroom setting or a course assignment, I am required by law to report the disclosure, including relevant details, such as the names of those involved in the incident, to Public Safety and Police Services and to Mr. Jesus Peña, Title IX Coordinator.

Note: This syllabus is subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.