Plagiarism is defined by the Senate policy F88-10 (http://www.sjsu.edu/senate/f88-10.htm)
as follows:
"At SJSU plagiarism is the act of representing the work of another as
one's own (without giving
appropriate credit) regardless of how that work was obtained, and
submitting it to fulfill
academic requirements. Plagiarism at SJSU includes but is not limited
to:
The act of incorporating the ideas, words, sentences,
paragraphs, or parts thereof, or the
specific substance of another's work, without giving appropriate
credit, and representing the
product as one's own work; and
Representing another's artistic/scholarly works such as
musical compositions, computer
programs, photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures or similar works
as one's own."
When the project advisor or the department chair has found that
student has engaged in plagiarism, as defined by Senate policy F88-10,
in a CS
297, CS 298, or CS 299 project proposal, report, or thesis, the
sanction shall be failure in the course and filing of an Academic
Dishonesty Report. If the violation is a repeat incident of academic
dishonesty, then the sanction shall be failure in the course and
referral for administrative sanctions.
It is up to the discretion of the project advisor whether or not
to terminate the advising relationship with a student who has engaged
in plagiarism.
Students shall submit electronic versions of all
proposals and final reports in CS 297, CS 298, and CS 299, to the
graduate coordinator. Final CS 298/CS 299 reports and theses shall be
submitted at least two (2) weeks before the date of the defense. The
graduate coordinator shall post all such materials on a
password-protected web site. Passwords are available to all interested
faculty.
Project advisors and committee members are reminded of their
responsibility to check student work for plagiarism. Advisors shall put
in place appropriate mechanisms for verifying the integrity of student
work, such as using a search engine to scan work that seems at variance
with student skill levels, or using a plagiarism detection service.
Advisors and committee members shall report any suspected
incidents of plagiarism promptly to the department chair.
The graduate coordinator shall include links to this policy, the
university policy, and informational pages on plagiarism, with the
instructions for writing projects and theses.
It is the policy of the Computer Science Department that, in order to
be awarded the Master of Science, 80% of the credits
required for graduation (i.e. 24 units) must be earned after admission
to the program.
Students may request to transfer credits earned before admission to the
Master of Science program.
Permission is required for all
courses taken prior to admission, including
courses that were taken at this department or at other SJSU
departments.
Transfers are subject to the following limitations
The total number of credits transferred may not exceed 20% of the
credits required for graduation (i.e. 6 units)
The courses must not have been used to satisfy another degree
requirement
The courses must not have been conditions for achieving fully
classified status
The courses must be equivalent to graduate courses or electives
of the department
All transfer requests must be approved by the graduate coordinator.
