CPSC 548 401, Spring 2025 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:

MoWe 4:00pm – 5:30pm, TuTh 10:00am – 11:00am

Meeting Time & Place:

Section 401: Th 6:00pm – 8:50pm, OM 158

Course Description: A study of advanced topics in artificial intelligence (AI) focusing on those aspects of AI which are most relevant to the design and construction of intelligent agents: control, knowledge acquisition and representation, reasoning with knowledge, planning and carrying out actions.

Prerequisite: CPSC 447 or permission of instructor.

Textbook (recommend): Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Fourth Edition, by Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig, Pearson.

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 (CPSC 548), 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 (70%): There will be several assignments which combined will count for 70% of the course grade. Assignments may have different weights based on the perception of the relative effort required.

• Final Project (30%): The will be a final programming project that will count for 30% of the final grade.

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

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, “[CPSC 548] 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.

Kutztown University Class Handout Information

Supplemental information from university offices for class handouts and syllabi is located here: Class Handout Information

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