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This page complements information already provided by the University registrar re: Fall 2020 courses.
Registrar resources:

the registrar's course roster for CS.

Notes:

1. [old news - the historically minded can check the diffs]
2. [ditto] 
3. [ditto]
4. [ditto]
5. Enrollment restrictions and waitlist rules are described on the CS Enrollment Information Pages and CS Waitlist FAQ.
   1. [old news]
6. Only students registered for the in-person version of a course may attend in-person meetings: "sitting in" or in-person "shopping" is not permitted this semester, due to contact-tracing requirements.
   
   1. If you have not received a seating assignment, even if you are enrolled in an in-person version, do not come to the physical meeting; attend the online/shopping version instead. 
7. No co-enrollment in temporally overlapping courses except:
   
   1. Overlap of not more than 5 minutes permitted: 3110 online sections, 3220, 4410, 4411, 6210, 6787
   2. Overlap of any duration permitted: 1110, 1112, 1133, 2024, 2111, 2112, 2802, 4414, 4740, 4820, 5220, 6120, 6817, 6820, 6830, 7850
      
      See the appropriate CS enrollment pages  --- specifically, the 1000-3000 level page, 4000-5000 level page, or  6000-level page - for definitive course-specific information and instructions on how to co-enroll in overlapping classes if permitted

Terminology: any class meeting can have three different possible “copies”:

1. in-person (which may involve rotation among student cohorts; for instance, the first 50 attend in-person on Mondays, and the second 50 attend in-person on Wednesdays; this rotating-attendance model is referred to as "hybrid" by the registrar)
2. remote access (immunocompromised or not able to return to campus). The University controls permissions to enroll in remote-access copies.
3. online-only

Notes:

1. All CS in-person lectures will have a remote access "shadow" (but not necessarily an additional online-only "shadow")  occurring synchronously with the in-person lecture. We mention this because this fact was not yet on the registrar's preliminary course list as of Aug 11.
   But, in-person sections will typically not have a remote-access shadow if online-only sections are also available, so that section leaders do not need to juggle modalities.
   
2. We only list courses "parented" by the CS department, since we can only vouch for information controlled by the CS department. 
3. Regarding students for whom the Ithaca time zone will not be between 8am and 10pm local time (henceforth "distant" students): CS is checking, for each class, whether or not distant students will have alternatives to any Ithaca-synchronous participation/attendance-based grades and/or will have access to sections/office hours at accessible times. We hope to indicate which courses will not be able to make adjustments for distant students by Friday, Aug 13, but this may slip to the following Monday night.  For now, assume at a minimum that all lectures will be recorded, and assume that many courses will make such adjustments, unless noted otherwise below.
4. Regarding students who are in the Ithaca area, in a class that has in-person exams, and registered for an online version of a course component: in case the University does not set policy on whether such "ITH-but-online" students must or must not take the in-person exam, the CS department is currently determining whether to make a department-wide policy or leave the decision to individual instructors.  In the latter case, we are aiming to indicate such decisions on this webpage by the night of Monday August 17.
5. For CS3410 and CS 4xxx and higher in-person class meetings, students affiliated with the CS major and CS masters and graduate students will have the highest enrollment priority
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Questions about individual course's policies: contact the course instructor(s).
Questions regarding enrolling using Student Center:  start at the CS department enrollment webpage. The webpages for CS courses have a standard access URL of the form https://cs.cornell.edu/courses/csXXXX/2020fa, where XXXX is the course number (e.g., "1110").