Advising Requirement Code

Every requirement must reside in the Advising Requirement Codes table before it can be used in the Advising system. An advising requirement type value that has been defined in the Requirement Type Clusters table is also associated with the requirement. This type determines how the requirement is to be evaluated. If the cluster code that has been associated with the requirement is a type G for Group, then a Group Relation Code (AND/OR) must also be selected. This will identify the relationship of child requirements that must be associated with the parent requirement code.

Each eight-character Advising Requirement Code (ARC) represents a unique course. It resides on the Catalog Master, the Section Master, and the Student Course History tables. If the ARC is entered on the catalog courses, the value will default to the corresponding sections and Student Course rows.

Each course that is offered in the course catalog must be assigned an ARC so that it can be represented in the advising system (example).

Advising Requirement Code	Course
ACCT101	Introduction to Accounting
ACCT201	Principles of Accounting
ACCT301	Advanced Accounting

Usually, one ARC corresponds to a catalog course number; however, the following exceptions may apply:

The course catalog may list "Freshman Comp I" as ENG-100 for a number of years, and then it may change to ENG-141. For a student who has taken ENG-100 and is now registering for ENG-141, you would classify ENG-141 as a repeated course even though the course catalog components do not match the previous course (ENG-100).

· Cross-listed courses have different component values for the same code. (example)

"Intro to Statistics" is cross-listed in the course catalog as SOC-230 and ECO-230. For a student who has taken SOC-230 and is now registering for ECO-230, you would classify ECO-230 as a repeated course even if the course catalog components do not match the previous course of SOC-230.

The ARC handles situations where different catalog course numbers represent the same course. One requirement code is created for each course (e.g., "Intro to Statistics"). Then that requirement code is assigned to each catalog course number that represents that course (i.e., ECO-230 and SOC-230).

Advising requirements can be grouped together to identify their relationship and represent curriculum and graduation requirements. Every requirement row from the Advising Progress Work File is read and proceeds to the Institutional Requirement Areas table in order to create any child requirements. This function is identified as expanding the institutional requirements tree.

Computer Student Progress Window

On the Compute Student Progress window, only cluster codes of R, O, and CT are available for selection in the Requirement column on this window.

How To

1. Open the Maintain Advising Requirement window.

2. Choose Add Row from the right-click or Options menu.

3. Enter an Advising Requirement Code and an associated description.

4. Select an Advising Requirement Type.

5. Select/Enter any other required attributes.

6. Save.

1. Open the Maintain Advising Requirement window.

2. Determine and select the Advising Requirement Code you want to change.

3. Choose Advising Requirement Detail from the right-click or Options menu.

4. Edit as desired.

5. Save.