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News and Notes: Yale approves joint Harvard-Yale Computer Science Course

The Yale faculty voted in favor of bringing Harvard’s most popular undergraduate course, Computer Science 50: Introduction to Computer Science I, to New Haven on Thursday at the faculty meeting, according toThe Harvard Crimson.

The course would be called “joint Harvard-Yale CS50” andis likely to be offered in fall 2015.

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The Harvard faculty has yet to approve the course.

Harvard CS50 Professor David J. Malan corresponded withYale Computer Science Department Chair Joan Feigenbaum over the summer proposing the “joint Harvard-Yale CS50,” course.

The course is likely to consist of Malan’s lectures streamed to Yale along with an on-the-ground instructor and Yale support staff.

The “joint Harvard-Yale CS50” proposal was approved by Yale’s Course of Study Committee on Oct. 16 for a three-year trial period.

The vote at the monthly faculty meetingon Thursdayofficially completed the approval process on Yale’s end. The Harvard faculty has yet to approve the course.

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