WTUs taught by CSC dept

Here’s another interesting picture. (Well, I thought it was interesting, anyway.) It shows the number of WTUs taught by the CS department faculty, from Fall 2008 up through Spring 2016. It includes courses with a bunch of different prefixes: CSC, CPE, HNRS, EE, ENGR, LAES, ME, and DATA.

This graph is broken up by the level of the course. The lowest (white) region shows courses whose names start with “01” (like “0123” and “0101”), the second region shows courses whose names start with “02”, and so forth. The “Sup” region shows the supervisory courses; senior project, master’s thesis, etc.

One note on “adjusted WTUs”: this data is taken from the FAD report, which misclassifies senior projects as lab courses, resulting in some very broken data. I’ve corrected this by re-assigning WTUs according to the CSU’s formulae.

Also, these are all classes taught by faculty associated with the department, so it includes lots of courses taught to nonmajors, as well as some courses taught by department faculty with other prefixes (for instance, a Mechanical Engineering course).

To me, the most interesting thing about this picture is frankly how flat it is. Our enrollments have gone way up, but the number of WTUs we’re teaching is pretty much unchanged.

I think the next picture to draw is how class sizes have changed over the years.

All parsing and rendering done in Racket. Isn’t it time that you learned Racket for yourself? :).