Undergraduate Programs

The CIS Department assigns a faculty advisor to each student having a major in the department. You are required to consult your advisor before each pre-registration period about your academic plans. Also, with the advice of your advisor you choose options, electives, and concentration within your major.

In some cases, students establish a working relationship with a faculty member other than their advisor and would like to have this mentor serve as official advisor. To change your advisor in such a case, ask your mentor if he or she is willing to act as your advisor. If agreed, your new advisor must inform the CIS Undergraduate Coordinator of the change.

Major advisors are listed in your UDSIS record. If the incorrect advisor is listed there, inform the CIS Undergraduate Coordinator.

For continuity, your advisor is assigned to you for the duration of your program. When a faculty advisor is on leave from the university, another advisor is assigned temporarily. Consult the CIS Office for temporary advisor information.

Students minoring in CIS may consult the Chair of the CIS Undergraduate Committee for choosing the electives in the minor.

Office of Academic Enrichment: (302-831-4555 | UD-aec@udel.edu)

The Office of Academic Enrichment provides tutoring services using departmental approved tutors. It is located on the corner of Amstel and S. College, across the street from Smith Hall.

• Group tutoring sessions for courses such as CISC 106, 108, 181, 210, 220, etc. are scheduled based on student interest. Early in the semester students can register with the Office of Academic Enrichment for group tutoring sessions. If enough students register, these sessions are provided as a free service to the students.
• Additional individual tutoring sessions are generally available for courses such as CISC 106, 108, 181, 210, 220.

Transfer Credit for CISC101 is rarely given

CISC101 counts as a “group D” Math/Science credit for Arts and Science majors. Therefore, there is a “very high bar” for transfer credit for CISC101. To evaluate whether your course can be transferred as CISC101, a course description is not sufficient, and even a syllabus (if it is only a high level description) may not be enough. There needs to be clear and convincing evidence (e.g. sample homework assignments, exams) that the course went beyond simple applications such as MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and also included Math/Science content such as:

1. digital representation of various kinds of information
2. computer organization (sample topics: CPU, RAM, volatile vs. non-volatile storage)
3. simple programming (e.g. in BASIC, JavaScript)

Most courses at other institutions do not meet these criteria, and even if they do, it is often difficult for students to gather and present sufficient evidence for us to be able to accept CISC101 for transfer.

However, if you feel that you can gather this evidence, contact the Associate Chair at cis-ugradprgm@udel.edu. In your email:

• Put CISC101 transfer credit in the subject line.
• Include a list of the evidence you have that the course you took contains sufficient math and science content as indicated above.
• Include several times over the next week when you would be available for an appointment.

Transfer credit for courses other than CISC101:

If you are requesting transfer credit for a CIS course other than CISC101 often the CIS Department part can be handled by email.

Send an email to cis-ugradprgm@udel.edu containing the following:

1. Your full name (first middle last). Do NOT send your SSN (repeat…NO SSNs!)
2. Name of school where you took the course
3. Name/Number of the course you took
4. When you took the course
5. If known: what course you want to transfer it in to UD as.
6. If you can find a web link to the course description from the other school, that is very helpful.