The demand for CS5254 Mobile Application Development has greatly exceeded the department's capacity and the number of available seats in this course for Spring 2022. In fact, we got four times as many requests this year from CS students as took the course last Spring. Due to this level of interest, we plan to offer the course again in Fall 2022. This should allow any student who plans to graduate by December 2022 the opportunity to take the course during the Fall 2022 semester. We believe we should be able to accommodate all of you who were not successful in getting the course this term. Please do not attempt to register or put in a force-add request for CRN 13414. That CRN is restricted to MIT students. CS5254 is a cross-listed course and we share the course with the MIT program. Some seats are reserved for their students, many of whom register for the course in January. You can be sure that we will fill any unused seats with CS students by the time that classes start.
If you plan to graduate this coming spring or summer term and so won’t have another chance to take CS5254, please put a new request through the force-add form (if you have already submitted one, SUBMIT A NEW ONE). Please make sure to clearly and concisely state in the comment section that you are graduating at the end of Spring 2022 or Summer 2022 term. Please be honest, and only put a request if you are indeed graduating. We will check student records.
While other classes are full, none of them are under the serious enrollment pressure that CS5254 faces. We hope to be able to accommodate many of the force-add requests being made for these by the time that classes start in January. Aside from CS5254, the primary reason why courses are full is because of people signing up for more courses than they actually plan to take. Once/if people drop their extra courses, more seats should become available. In the meantime, if you are an MEng student and unable to find a desired course in your chosen concentration this coming term, I suggest you focus on taking some of your elective courses and explore other areas. We recommend that MEng students only take three courses in their area of concentration and use the remaining credits in the degree to broaden their skillset. The MEng program is designed to give you a broader range of skills than just a single concentration, so please explore other courses that are offered and are still open.
And if you have signed up for five or six courses, please be considerate of other students and drop the courses that you do not intend to keep.
Thank you
Dr. Hooshangi
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Sara Hooshangi, Ph.D.
Collegiate Associate Professor
Director, MEng Program
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
