Special permission form is required to register for CMPU 300, which is the first half of a year-long course.
Student is responsible for securing both a primary advisor and a second reader and for providing a paragraph-long description of the project by the end of the third week of classes. If the topic is interdisciplinary, then, with CS department approval, the second reader may be outside the CS department.
Written draft of thesis proposal is due to advisor one week before course drop deadline. It should include: problem statement, bibliography from literature search, an outline of the approach to solve the problem, evaluation criteria, and significance of the work.
Each student and advising professor will work out a schedule of due dates for experiments and data collection, chapters, preliminary drafts, etc.