Associating the Course with a Subject Area

The Offerings page associates a new course with an academic group, subject area, and academic career, and in addition, establishes the Catalog Number.

If a course is cross-listed with another department, the cross-listing is established here. The home department, not the cross-listing department, adds the cross-listed offering, and maintains the data on all other pages for the course.

To associate the course with a subject area:

  1. In the Course Catalog page group, click the Offerings tab to display the Offerings page.

    2. When you are adding a new course, the value of the Course Offering Nbr field is set to 1 by default.

  2. In the Catalog Nbr field, type the catalog number, for example, the 101 of PHY101. The Subject Area field will provide the alphabetic part of the catalog code.
  3. In the Academic Group field, select the Academic Group using the Lookup button. The options are:
    ARCG
    School of Architecture. Use for Graduate courses only.
    ENGR
    Engineering. Use for graduate or undergraduate courses.
    HUMN
    Humanities. Use for graduate or undergraduate courses.
    INTDS
    Interdisciplinary. Use for graduate or undergraduate courses that don't fall into any specific group. All academic Programs (as opposed to departments) must use this value.
    NATS
    Natural Sciences. Use for graduate or undergraduate courses.
    SOCS
    Social Sciences. Use for graduate or undergraduate courses.
    SPEC
    Special. Do not use for course information.
    WWSG
    Woodrow Wilson School. Use for Graduate courses only.
  1. In the Subject Area field, use the Lookup button to locate the subject area you want, or just type the subject area code if you know it.

    2. Tip! You can type the value directly, rather than selecting it from the Search Results.

  2. Tab out of the Subject Area field. The Academic Organization field should fill in automatically. If it does not, use the Lookup button to find the correct value.
  3. If the Academic Career field, if the field is not filled in by default, type one of the following:
    UGRD
    for undergraduate courses
    GRAD
    for graduate courses.