The CS Graduate Program Committee will then review the petition and make its recommendation, and it can by a majority vote of the committee members bring the petition to the full Computer Science Graduate Faculty for a vote.  The CS Graduate Faculty has the final authority on these matters.  The CS Graduate Faculty can by a 2/3rds majority vote approve the requested course as partial fulfillment of the program requirements, including fulfilling the COS theory or the COS breadth (AI, Systems, Data and Information, or Applications) or the COS elective requirements.

If approved by a 2/3rds majority of the CS Graduate Faculty and unless otherwise stipulated by them, the requested course will then be accepted to fulfill one of the requirements for any student in the program as well as the petitioner.  Notice of the acceptance will be publicized via relevant documents and websites pertaining to the CS Graduate Programs.

The CS Graduate Faculty may revisit decisions about courses so approved at any time with the manner of oversight to be determined, but no such decision will invalidate any credit or fulfillment of a requirement previously obtained by a student having taken the course.