by Kellie Hocking
Staff
The change will not take place until the Fall of 1999 for Georgia Tech, so if you are beyond your freshman year now you will not be affected by the change. But what about graduate students and freshmen now? They will take on some of the frustrations of this fiasco. But alas, the College of Computing staff is in gear with some preliminary work.
Two of the people working diligently in an effort to implement this change are Professor Richard Fujimoto and College of Computing Associate Dean Richard Leblanc. The changes in curriculum have not been decided yet. Richard Leblanc added that these changes "will happen over the next year and a half and it will depend to some extent on what the new courses in Math, Physics, English, etc. look like."
The new curriculum will be designed by the Undergraduate Program Committee in which student representatives can assist in this change. This committee is still in the developing stages and, therefore the details of the formation of this committee are still being decided. However, when finalized, the committee will work laboriously for a year and a half to re-evaluate and decide the necessary course of action in organizing this changeover.
It seems as if everyone has already expressed the negative impact of the semester decision, however, there are some positive effects. Of course, the change eases the hassles of transferring credit from another college or university. And with additional weeks added to the course work, this could be a new breaking ground reached in students' endurance and consistency. Richard Leblanc commented that "many of our faculty think that semesters are more suited to the kinds of project-oriented courses that we teach."