Mission, Vision and

Learning Outcomes

Department of Computer Science

College of Computer Science & Information Technology
Jazan University
 JAZAN UNIVERSITY STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
JU Mission Learning Goals/ Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
Objectives JU Graduates should be able to:
Graduates should
1. Achieve academic excellence 1. Understand and 1. Analyze and articulate disciplinary and
and prepare graduates to appreciate their area of interdisciplinary theories, concepts, principles, skills, and
become regional and national specialization. practices.(Knowledge)
leaders in business, industry,
health, education, and
2. Become effective leaders 2. Demonstrate effective leadership qualities in
government.
with lifelong learning communication, both orally and in written form, with
pursuits. others collaboratively, with high teamwork spirits.
(Communication, Information Technology, Numerical)
3. Apply appropriate technologies and related technical
skills to locate, process, evaluate, and adapt information
in an effective and ethical manner. (Communication,
Information Technology, Numerical)
3. Foster a culture of 4. Apply independent and critical thinking innovatively to
independent thinking, solve complex problems.(Cognitive)
innovation, and
entrepreneurship.
2. Serve the community by 4. Involve and serve the 5. Use lifelong learning endeavors in serving community
addressing its problems and community socially and for environmental, economic and social issues.
supporting its social and economically. (Interpersonal Skills & Responsibility)
economic development.

3. Produce internationally 5. Involve in new 6. Conduct new, innovative, and practical research with
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recognized research and new innovative research in integrity and high moral standards in their professional
 College Mission
The Mission of the college of Computer Science and
Information Technology is to:
• Prepare technologists and skilled graduates for attaining
academic excellence in the field of Computer Science and
technology.
• Serve the community by using computing technologies to
support social and economic development.
• Produce nationally and internationally recognized research in
computing technology.
 College Goals
The Goals of the college of Computer Science and Information Systems is to:
• To provide quality education that prepares graduates to be skilled technologists.
• To foster student - centric learning environment.
• To improve student’s academic experience and personality development.
• Enable best practices in teaching strategies.
• Enable faculty professional development
• Facilitate research contribution
• Engaging college with society
• To contribute in economic development

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 Program Vision
• To be recognized for imparting quality education,
conducting research, serve the industry and community
for the betterment of the nation.
‫رؤية‬
‫ وخدمة الصناعة والمجتمع من‬، ‫ وإجراء البحوث‬، ‫ليتم االعتراف بها لنقل التعليم الجيد‬
‫أجل تحسين األمة‬.
 Program Mission
• The Mission of the Computer Science program is to provide quality
undergraduate education to contribute significantly to IT industry and
community with value and relevance, continual professional
development, conduct research activities in collaboration with
industry and government that moves forward towards academic
excellence in the field of Computer Science.
‫مهمة‬
‫تتمثل رسالة برنامج علوم الكمبيوتر في توفير جودة التعليم الجامعي للمساهمة بشكل كبير في صناعة‬
‫تكنولوجيا المعلومات والمجتمع المحلي من حيث القيمة واألهمية والتطوير المهني المستمر وإجراء‬
‫األنشطة البحثية بالتعاون مع الصناعة والحكومة التي تتقدم نحو التميز األكاديمي في مجال علوم‬
‫الكمبيوتر‬.
 Program Goals
• Increase the compatibility level between the curriculum and the
job market.
• Enhance teaching and learning skills and strive for quality
assurance and academic accreditation for high-quality education.
• Preparing the students towards academic excellence.
• Fulfilling social obligations towards Jazan community.
• Developing students’ skills for industrial and social needs.
• Encourage innovation, scientific research and development.
 Program Objectives
• Students will learn essential concepts of Mathematics, Science and computing to successfully apply
them in BS (CS) program.
• Students will be equipped with essential skills and knowledge to comprehend, analyze and develop
computing system or components for desired needs.
• Students will gain independent, critical and creative thinking.
• Students will be encouraged to have active learning and self-learning skills to increase their motivation,
and performance.
• Students will be trained and developed to have personality and interpersonal skills to achieve
leadership and entrepreneurship traits.
• Students will be enabled to identify the IT needs of the society and to support ICT utilization for
advancement of the society in Jazan province.
• Students will be trained through specialized training programs to make them viable for IT job market.
• Students will be encouraged to involve in scientific research and innovative thinking in the field of
Computing Science.
• Students will understand the professional and ethical considerations in the field of Computing Science.
 Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
for BS (CS) curriculum
S. No. SAQF Learning Domains and Learning Outcomes
Bachelor degree graduates of Computer Science will be able to:
Knowledge
Demonstrate the sound knowledge of principles of Computing, Science and Mathematics
K1
required in the field of Computer Science.
K2 Relate recent trends and current research in the field of Computer Science.
Skills
Analyze a complex computing problem and to apply principles of computing and other
S1
relevant disciplines to identify solutions.
Design, implement, and evaluate a computing-based solution to meet a given set of
S2
computing requirements in the context of the program’s discipline.
S3 Apply computer science theory and software development fundamentals to produce
computing-based solutions.

S4 Communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts.

Competence
Recognize professional and social responsibilities and make informed judgments in
C1
computing practice based on legal and ethical principles.
Demonstrate the ability to function effectively as a member or leader of a team engaged
C2
in activities appropriate to the field of Computer Science.
Appraise the need to engage in continuing professional development and
C3
entrepreneurship
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 Course Information
Course Title Artificial Intelligence Course Code 441COMP–3

Pre Req. Nil Level 10

Contact Hrs. 2 hrs Theory + 2 hrs. Lab Cr. Hrs. 3

Course Description

This course offers basic concepts of the intelligence, innovations, achievements

and advanced development in the areas of AI. It covers modern techniques for
computers to represent task-relevant information and intelligent decisions
system, solving problems by searching towards the achievement of goals. It
covers some advanced topics namely Planning, Learning, Robotics and Multi-
Agent Systems basics.
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 Course Objectives
Course: Artificial Intelligence
The main objectives of this course are:
• Understand the basic concepts of the Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
and innovative achievements in the development of AI.
• Identify and choose appropriate PEAS description, characteristics of
environment and the agent architecture, for a given problem to be
solved by an Intelligent agent.
• Apply uninformed/ informed search strategies to solve a given search /
optimization problem.
• Design and implement the concepts of Problem Solving and Algorithms.
• Identify the techniques in Planning, Learning, Robotics and Multi agent
systems basics.
• Know and integrate various artificial intelligence techniques in
intelligent system development and maintaining intelligent systems.
 Course Learning Outcomes (CLO’s)
Course:
After the completion of the course students will be able to:

• Describe various Artificial Intelligent fundamentals and types of

intelligent agents.
• Recognize recent trends in robotics and their architectures.
• Evaluate various search strategies and algorithms along with logic
based knowledge representation issues concepts & reasoning
methods.
• Compare different categories of learning.
• Apply algorithms for search techniques and AI Intelligent
techniques for problem solving.
• Design planning strategies to solve a planning problem. 12

• Demonstrate the knowledge based agents and logical connectives.

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 Teaching Material
Text Book (Available in Cafeteria) Text Book (Original)

LECTURE NOTES
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - COMP 241

COURSE COORDINATOR: Dr. MAHALAKSHMI

COLLEGE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE &
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
JAZAN UNIVERSITY, JAZAN
KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA
1439-1440

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 TEACHING RESOURCES

Text Book:
 Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern
Approach, Prentice Hall, 3rd Edition, 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0-13-604259-4.
Reference Book:
 Tim Jones, “Artificial Intelligence a Systems Approach”, 1 st Edition, Infinity
Science Press LLC, ISBN: 978-0763773373, 2008.
 Nils J Nilsson, The Quest for Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge University
Press, 2009.
 William F Clocksin and Christopher S Mellish, Programming in Prolog:
Using the ISO Standard, Fifth Edition, Springer, 2003.
 Gerhard Weiss, Multi Agent Systems, Second Edition, MIT Press, 2013.
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 Chapters to be Covered

• CHAPTER# TOPIC
•
• 1 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• 2 Intelligent Agents
• 3 Search Strategies
• 4 Logical Agents
• 5 Planning
• 6 Learning
• 7 Robotics
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 Practical Work
This lab work will be based on Python Programming and
major Lab Programs includes :

1. N- Queen Problem using backtracking

2. Breadth First Search Traversal
3. Python Program to implement list operations
4. Tic-Tac- Toe game using python
5. Stemming, removing, tagging using NLTK toolkit
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 Grading Policy
Grading Scheme

Assessment Method Topics / Chapters Week No Ratio

Assignments 1-2 & 3-4 4/9 10%

Exam- 1 1-2 5 10 %
Exam -2 3-4 9 10%
Mini Project All 12 10 %
Lab Exam 1-6 15-17 20 %
Final Exam 1-7 15-17 40%
Faculty Members Information

• Name: Ms Rawdah Abu Hashem

• Department of Computer Science

• Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language
Processing.
• Office No: to be assigned
• Office Hours: 2 to be assigned
• Email: [email protected]

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 ATTENDANCE POLICY

• If a student misses more than 25% of the course activities, without any
valid excuse he/she shall not be allowed to sit for final course
examination.

• However if a student has a valid excuse and attendance at least 50% in a

course then he/she can appeal to the college board and if approved, can sit
for the final course examination

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Thank You!