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Information for graduating CSc seniors (updated 1/31/08 )

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First check out the instructions for preparing for graduation.

Your graduation application is basically a list of courses taken that will satisfy your CSc major requirements.

If your courses were all taken at SFSU, the course numbers and course titles on your application should match exactly the bulletin.

If you have courses that were transferred from outside SFSU, the course numbers and course titles on your application should match exactly your transcript from the other school. For example, if you took CIS 110B from City College of San Francisco in place of CSc 210 at SFSU, the corresponding item in your graduation application should say CIS 110B and not CSc 210.

When you've filled out your graduation application, you must see one of our Senior Advisers to have it signed. You will need to bring with you:

your application (of course)
your SFSU transcript (unofficial is ok)

If you have transfer units, you will also need to bring:

all transcripts from other schools
your DARS (for community college units)
your ASE (for units from other schools)
equivalency verification from transfer advisors for transfer units

To complete your oral presentation, please arrange and schedule with faculty of your choice. After you complete your senior oral presentation, the signed form must be submitted to the CS Department office by ***the sponsoring faculty***. (Students who joined the program in Fall 2003 or after will also have to complete a senior written presentation.)
Instructions for oral and written presentation are here: http://cs.sfsu.edu/undergrad/PrepOrarWritPres.html

If everything on your application looks good, our Senior Advisers will sign it. What happens next:

The Senior Advisers will bring it to the department office for the chair's signature
After a couple days, you can pick up your copy from the student pickup box in the department office.
Take your copy to the Registrar's to pay fees.

(If the deadline is close, the office may take your application to the registrar, but you will still need to go pay the fees before the deadline)

You will have to complete a CSc departmental exit survey, different from the SFSU web survey. The CSc survey is now available online; after the graduation application deadline, and provided you have submitted a graduation application, you will be sent (by email) a link to the survey. You will have to complete the survey before the end of the semester for your application to be processed correctly. You will be sent a second and final reminder at the end of the semester if you have not completed the survey by that time. Note that your answers for the exit survey are totally anonymous and we only keep track of whether you have submitted the survey or not in order to continue processing your application.

Most graduation applications are approved. A few applications are rejected, but we can usually help you fix them with very small changes. If you've completed the requirements, we'll do our best to help you through the procedures. Good luck!

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