Greg Klotz presenting a slideshow titled "Bachelor of Computing". He is sitting in front of a blank wall and is wearing glasses and a red T-Shirt.

[Greg] Hello. Welcome to the Bachelor of Computing Academic Information Session at the Spring Academic
Open House. 

(slide changes: Bachelor of Computing: Academics)

[Greg] My name is Greg Klotz, I am a program counsellor for the Bachelor of Computing degree, and I provide academic
advising to students. Basically I help students understand their academic options, from first semester course selection in the summer, all the way through to graduation. 
My background is that I have a B.Sc. in Applied Computer Science from Ryserson, followed by an M.Sc. and PhD Computer Science at Guelph. 

(slide changes: Computing Degrees at Guelph)

[Greg] Computing degrees at Guelph come in three flavours: the Bachelor of Computing general degree, and the Bachelor of Computing Honours degree, which has computer science major and a software engineering major, and both of those have co-op as an option.

(slide changes: B.Sc./B.Eng./B.Comp.)

[Greg] First, a brief slide about why we have our own degree and why do we have a Bachelor of Computing degree. We have a Bachelor of Engineering degree at the University of Guelph. It has a common first year where students have to
take chemistry, engineering courses, engineering design, physics, etc., we have a B.Sc: this also has a common first year. Students are required to take chemistry, biology, physics, and calculus. We have our own degree, the Bachelor of Computing, as this is focused on computing, it has a flexible first year where students get to choose their own electives
based on their interests. So if they want, they can take chemistry, or physics, or more math courses, but if they prefer they can take music, history, english, zoology, or any of our other minors. Computer science and software engineering, just to be clear, are both computing degree majors. Neither one of them is an accredited Engineering degree. 

(slide changes: Bachelor of Computing General)

[Greg] The Bachelor of Computing general degree is  three years of full-time study, so that assumes that five courses are taken each fall and wnter semester. It gives students a basic foundation in computer science. It's quick:
so there is no major, no minor, no co-op, and students only have time for a few electives in computer science plus four arts and four science courses, but they do complete the core courses in computer science. 

(slide changes: Bachelor of Computing Honours)

[Greg]The Bachelor of Computing Honours degree is four years of full-time, so again assuming five courses are taken in all eight academic semesters, that's five years with the co-op option, and it gives students a foundation in computing, along with specializations, and students can choose to major either in computer science or software engineering. They have computer science electives they can take in upper years, and they can minor in a different subject. 

(slide changes: Computer Science Major)

[Greg] The Computer Science major is a traditional computing degree, focused on software development, has a bit more theory of computation, it's flexible, mostly electives in third and fourth year, and calculus is a required course at university, so it has a little bit more math than the software engineering major. 

(slide changes: Software Engineering)

[Greg] The Software Engineering major still has a foundation in computer science, so students still take the same core courses as the Computer Science majors, but has a stronger emphasis on software design as a team: standards, processes,
documentation, agile, waterfall and other methods, professional standards, it has slightly less math, no calculus course is required to be taken at university, but it does have more teamward-based software design courses, so it has less electives in third and fourth year.

(slide changes: Some Electives) 

[Greg] Some electives that all computing students can take are data science, cloud computing, computer networks, introduction to cryptography, image processing and vision, game programming, and in fourth year students can also do a computer science project one-on-one with a professor if they choose to.

(slide changes: Help on Campus)

[Greg] Help on campus: there's lots of help available on campus. For any academic type help (course selection, academic advising), I'm happy to help. If students are not sure where to get the help they need, I'm also happy to tell them what options are available. For grief, we have Student Accessibility Services. For stents who need a little bit of extra help with their learning, we have counselling services, and student health services for medical and psychological needs. We have the library which has lots of books, but they also offer many study and exam preparation sessions. If you have questions, I'm happy to help.

(slide changes: Questions?)

[Greg] You can email us at cscouns@uoguelph.ca, and thank you very much for attending our virtual
spring academic open house.