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Artificial Intelligence Curriculum Evolution
Method & Provenance

Where every word on this site came from

What is quoted, what is proposed, and what does not reconcile between the catalog and the proposal workbook.

This is a working draft prepared for departmental discussion. It is not an official publication of Concordia University Wisconsin, and no proposed description or outcome on this site has been approved by any curriculum committee. The authoritative record of Concordia's curriculum is catalog.cuw.edu.

Reproduced verbatim

  • Course codes, titles, credit values, prerequisites and current descriptions for all 18 CSC courses, from CUW Graduate Catalog — CSC, retrieved 21 September 2026.
  • The six university learning outcome names and statements, as they appear on cuw.edu and as reproduced in the proposal workbook.
  • All twelve program learning outcomes, from column B of the Assessment sheet of the program proposal workbook.
  • The workbook's assessment map (I / D / AE), from its Assessment sheet.
  • Four proposed course descriptions authored by the department which the catalog has not yet adopted, from the workbook's Course Titles & Descriptions sheet: CSC 5015, CSC 6210, CSC 5025 and CSC 6220. Each is reproduced in full and unedited, with a single sentence appended on agentic practice; nothing in the department’s own wording was shortened or rewritten.

Proposed here (draft)

  • Revised course descriptions for the remaining 14 CSC courses.
  • All 104 course learning outcomes, and every CLO → PLO mapping with its stated rationale.
  • The AI-weight classification applied to each course.
  • Each course's “what changes” summary.

Every proposed item was drafted against the course's own catalog description, then independently reviewed for factual conflict with the catalog, for measurable outcome language, and for whether each outcome-to-outcome mapping can be defended in a sentence. Items that failed review were rewritten.

Discrepancies left unresolved

These are surfaced rather than silently reconciled; each is a decision for the department, not for this draft.

ItemCatalogProposal workbook
PLO 1.1 and PLO 3.2Word-for-word identical outcome statements, with identical I/D/AE rows, filed under two different university outcomes
CSC 5010Titled AI Ethics and VocationThe Curriculum Proposal sheet agrees, but the Course Titles & Descriptions sheet still heads the same text Vocation and Ethical Computing
CSC 5025Titled CybersecurityTitled Data Security and Information Assurance, with a fuller description
Six descriptions already adoptedCSC 5010, 6230, 6240, 6250, 6260 and 6270 already carry the workbook text word for wordStill listed as proposals; for these courses the workbook records work already done rather than work proposed
User ExperienceNo such graduate CSC course existsA full proposed description appears in the Course Titles & Descriptions sheet with no course number assigned
Courses outside the MSAI proposalEighteen CSC courses are listedOnly ten appear in the MSAI curriculum map; the workbook notes the graduate catalog is shared with the MSCS proposal
Current program learning outcomesThe Current column holds the labels PLO 1–2 under each university outcome but no text; the program is recorded as a new program

Coverage notes

Every one of the twelve program learning outcomes is addressed by at least one course in this draft.

Coverage is deliberately uneven, and two structural facts explain most of it. Eight of these courses are shared with the MSCS program and are not part of the MSAI proposal, so they touch the MSAI outcomes only where the fit is genuine. And PLO 1.1 and PLO 3.2 are the same sentence in the workbook, so their columns are identical by construction rather than by coincidence.

Technical

Static HTML, no framework and no build step. Colours and the Roboto type stack are the tokens published in Concordia's own stylesheet; the curriculum-map ramp is a single-hue scale anchored on CUW blue #005596 and checked for step separation and contrast in both light and dark modes. Every chart on the site has an equivalent table view, and every colour-coded cell carries a text label or an accessible name. Served over HTTPS from /home/awesomefat/cuw/courses.cuwcs.com.