Course Typically Offered
Course Typically Offered identifies the term or terms in which a course is ordinarily expected to be offered. It is a catalog designation maintained in OASIS on the Offerings page of the Course Catalog component.[1][2]
At CSUMB, this designation can be used to validate the “Typically Offered” information displayed to students for course offerings in the CSUMB Catalog Course Listings against recent actual course scheduling and enrollment activity on the Class Schedule dashboard in Campus Data Warehouse.
Note: Typically, departments follow the catalog course Typically Offered designations but there can always be cases where there was a change in department chair and they're not aware they should observe it. Also, occasionally for students who need to graduate, there can be exceptions.
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Business Rules
- Course Typically Offered represents the intended or expected pattern of course availability; it does not guarantee that a section will be scheduled in every indicated term.
- The designation is defined in PeopleSoft and is available in the Course Typically Offered field on the Offerings page of the Course Catalog component.[2]
- To validate the catalog designation, compare it with patterns in recent years of actual scheduled sections for the course, organized by term (for example, fall, spring, and summer).
- Enrollment data should be reviewed with the scheduled-section history to provide context. A course may appear in the schedule but not run as planned, may be cancelled, or may have unusually low or high enrollment in a particular term.
- Validation should focus on multi-year patterns rather than a single term. A one-time scheduling exception, cancellation, program change, or temporary instructional constraint should not by itself determine whether the catalog designation is accurate.
- A mismatch between the catalog designation and recent scheduling history should be reviewed with the appropriate academic department and Academic and Centralized Scheduling. The review may result in updating the Course Typically Offered designation, retaining it because of a documented exception, or identifying a need for future scheduling action.
- Scheduled-section and enrollment history are evidence for review; they do not automatically override academic planning, curricular requirements, resource availability, or departmental decisions.
Frequency of Offering / Course Typically Offered - My Learning Plan uses the typically offered codes to help students know when they could plan to take a course in the future beyond the schedule of classes. Students generally plan two to four years out, which is beyond the schedule of classes; thus, My Learning Plan needs typically offered to be accurate in order to help students plan a path to graduation that is as optimal as possible. If a course is offered during a term that doesn’t fall into the typically offered terms then My Learning Plan would adjust when the schedule of courses is published but beyond the schedule, the system would continue to only allow students to plan the course according to the typically offered code attached to the course.
Examples
The standard options include:
| Code | Course Typically Offered Designation |
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| EVERY_TERM | Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter |
| FALL | Fall term only |
| F_EVEN | Fall term only - even years |
| F_ODD | Fall term only - odd years |
| F_SP | Fall, Spring |
| F_SP_SU | Fall, Spring, Summer |
| F_SU | Fall, Summer |
| PERIODICAL | Periodically offered (does not fit in another category) |
| SPRING | Spring term only |
| SUMMER | Summer term only |
| S_EVEN | Spring term only - even years |
| S_ODD | Spring term only - odd years |
| S_SU | Spring, Summer |
| TRANSFER | Administrative Use Only |
| WINTER | Winter term only |
Definition Source
Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions defines values for when a course is typically offered. These values are available in the Course Typically Offered field on the Offerings page of the Course Catalog component.[2]
References
- ↑ CSUMB Catalog | Course Listings. https://catalog.csumb.edu/content.php?catoid=12&navoid=631
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions: Setting Up Catalog and Schedule Options. https://docs.oracle.com/en/applications/peoplesoft/campus-solutions/9.2.038/student-records/setting-catalog-schedule-options.html#GUID-DCB27B24-84E8-4DE5-B9D8-86CD2D94AE77