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In general, we are looking at a couple of things: One was trying to set out a better core curriculum for both programs. The last semester in CNS is basically all professional options. CTY has a "ton" of professional options (which is OK), but then CTY does this divergent thing in their third and fourth semesters, where if a student is starting out in CTY, that person goes into co-op, then decides to graduate from CNS, they are going to miss a couple of things. For example, if we potentially graduate students that have never taken ops335 which is considered a weakness since they are missing a big portion of the OS administration skills. (traditionally and optimally, students in CTY would take OPS435 for scripting skills, then take OPS335 for Linux administration skills).
The idea is essentially to return to the first 4 semesters being consistent for both programs: whether you are CNS or CTY. As a result, courses like INT420 (configuration of Apache web servers using the Perl scripting language) would no longer be a required part of the curriculum, as opposed to a "professional option". If we do that, we must recognize that INT620, traditionally a required course, would not longer be a required course but rather a "professional option". Here would one of the major impacts or suggestions for both CNS and CTY curriculum development. For the CNS curriculum for the fourth year, it is currently NDD430 plus 4 professional options and for CTY program it is NDD430, INT420, ops335 and two professional options.