It's not even an elective (note its absence here: http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m6a.html http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m6a.html). Some grad students who love

It's not even an elective (note its absence here: http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m6a.html http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m6a.html). Some grad students who love it teach a portion of it to anyone in the January "Independent Activities Period", and the first ~30 students who sign up and do the problem sets can earn less than half of the credits of the original course. I.e. tolerated by the department, but no more so, and may well die as those passionate about SICP leave the Institute. Promises to offer it as an elective, especially for all those outside the department who can benefit from it, unlike the new intro courses which intertwingle EE with CS, were empty, and were obviously so at the time.