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The Master Course Catalog
The term Course refers to a specific body of knowledge, or curriculum, that you may make available to your students (customers). A Class, on the other hand, is an instance of a Course -- a Class entity specifies not only what will be taught (the Course), but when, where, and by whom it will be taught, among other attributes.
The Master Course Catalog, as it's name implies, is the list of products (Courses) that may be offered to your customers at various times throughout the academic year. The Course Catalog should be organized using a hierarchial numbering scheme, incorporating Department and sub-department placeholders (much like a college numbering system). The following table demonstrates this technique:
| Sample Course Catalog |
| 1000 |
Computer / Business Department |
| 1100 |
Computer Applications
(sub-department) |
| 1110 |
Word Processing
(Unit) |
| 1111 |
Corel Word Perfect |
| 1112 |
MS Word |
| 1120 |
Programming
(Unit) |
| 1121 |
Introduction to BASIC |
| 1122 |
Advanced Basic |
| 1200 |
Finance |
| 2000 |
English Department |
| 2100 |
Freshman English |
| 2111 |
English I
(first semester) |
| 2112 |
English II
(second semester) |
| 2200 |
Sophomore English |
| 2300 |
Junior English |
| 2400 |
Senior English |
| 3000 |
Fine/Practical Arts/Languages |
| 4000 |
Industrial Arts Department |
| 4100 |
Automotive |
| 4200 |
Woodworking |
| 4300 |
Metalworking |
| 5000 |
Mathematics Department |
| 5100 |
General Math |
| 5200 |
Algebra |
| 5300 |
Geometry |
| 5400 |
Calculus |
| 6000 |
Pysical Education - GED |
| 7000 |
Science Department |
| 8000 |
Social Studies Department |
| 9000 |
Adult Basic Education |
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To help enforce this Department / Sub-Department hierarchy, STUREC© will not let you create a Class from any Course number that ends in zero(0) -- such course numers are organizational placeholders used primarily when constructing Graduation Requirement Sets (Grad Sets), for use by the Automatic Credit Analysis. When creating your Course Catalog, keep in mind that you can only receive funding for the first time a student receives Credit for a given Course, which means that for courses that spa
ollment periods, you will have to give it a different number for each enrollment period. For example, if "Freshman English" is an 18 week course, but you are running quarters, then you would create two entries in the Course Catalog: "2101 - Freshman English I", and "2102 - Freshman English II". With different course numbers for each enrollment period, neither STUREC© nor your auditor will complain.
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