About the CIS Website

Improved Navigation

The new web site features a newly designed navigation system. You'll find fewer choices, making it easier to find what you want. In addition, the top-level navigation have moved from the left side of the page to a navbar prominently positioned across the top of the page. As you mouse over each option, you will have the choice to go to that section's home page, or directly to one of it's subpages.

Once you enter into one of the subsections of the site, you will be given secondary navigational links on the left side of the page which help you get around that subsection. For instance, if you click on About Us in the top navbar, you'll be taken to the About Us landing page, and the links on the left will direct you to subpages such as the Faculty pages and information about visiting the department.

If you are still having difficulty finding what you want, try the new search feature. You'll find a search form at the top right corner of every page on the site.

Easily Find Class Information

In the Academics section of the site, you'll find the familiar Course Catalog and Class Schedule. However, several new features are now available. Each of these is described briefly below.

Course Catalog - The course catalog now clearly shows both requirements from other departments and CIS prerequisites as part of each course listed. Additionally, there are links available to filter the list by undergraduate or graduate level courses.

Class Schedule - The Class Schedule page has links to current and future semesters for which we have classes scheduled. In addition, here is where you will find the link to our tentative plan for next year, so that you can plan your schedule well in advance. Each class has a clickable Call Number listed, which will take you to the detail page for that class, which has information about the instructor, class meeting times, associated lab sessions and most importantly, a link to the class home page. Each class also has a clickable instructor, if the information is available, which will take you to that instructor's detail page, showing a link to their home page, their other classes and contact information.