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

•  registrar "tableau" course list with modalities, temporarily removed on Aug 13 for a refresh on Aug  14.
•  the registrar's eventually-official course roster for CS. As of Aug 14, the instructors and course begin/end dates are up to date, but not the days of the week, times of day, modalities, or notes on enrollment restrictions.

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.

Questions about individual course's policies: contact the course instructor(s).
Questions regarding enrolling using Student Center:  start at the CS department enrollment webpage.