Cross-Listing a Course

If a course is cross-listed with another department, the cross-listed course is established by the home department using the Offerings page of the Course Catalog page group. The home department does all course data maintenance.

For example:

The Physics department would enter MAT 407 as a second offering of the PHY 403 course, which the Physics department maintains and schedules.

Note: If there are two offerings-the regular course and the cross-listing-both offerings must be approved. If the second offering is not approved, you will not be able to make any changes to either offering.

To cross-list a course with another department:

  1. On the Offerings page, click the Add a New Row button. The Course Offering Nbr field is incremented by 1.
  2. In the Catalog Nbr field, type the numeric part of the catalog number for the cross-listed course.

    Important! Make sure you use the correct number for the cross-listed course.

  3. The Subject Area value will provide the alphabetic part of the catalog code.
  4. Use the Lookup button in the Academic Group field to select the Academic Group for the cross-listed course
    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.
    .

    Note: For the cross-listed course (Course Offering Nbr 2) use the Academic Group of the home department, not the cross-listing department.

  5. In the Subject Area field click the Lookup button. On the page that is displayed, click the Lookup button, then select the cross-listing department.
  6. In the Academic Organization field use the Lookup button to locate your department or type in your department code. To carry forward our example, you would select PHY for the Academic Organization.
  7. If the Academic Career field hasn't filled in already with default values, enter UGRD for an undergraduate course and GRAD for a graduate course.