Purpose of this Site

The intent of this site is to provide information about the data currently used by the Semester Transition Advising Tool (STAT) software. Please take a look at the information provided and send feedback with any corrections or additions to Chris Taylor.

Approach

Graduation requirements for students starting under quarters and finishing under semesters are governed by two constraints:

Specific courses specified by the program
Credit thresholds for multiple topical categories specified by the program

Course Requirement Specification

Each program specifies a nominal curriculum track for students starting in AY2021 (Fall 2020), AY2022, and AY2023. These curricular tracks specify one, two, or three years of quarter courses with the remaining years specified with semester courses. It is intended that students will follow the applicable nominal track to the extent that it is possible; however, programs may add flexibility to these tracks by designating certain class as "Must Have." If a class is designated as "Must Have," the student must complete it or suitable alternative(s) in order to graduate. Any class without the "Must Have" designation is not required to graduate.

Credit Thresholds

To ensure that students obtain a sufficient amount of coursework in areas relevant to the program, a program may specify additional credit thresholds for specific content areas. A student must meet all of these credit counts to meet graduate requirements. For convenience, I'll refer to each topical area as a credit bucket. The general education requirements during the transition specify that all students, regardless of program, must complete a minimum number of semester credits:

4 Social Science
6 Humanities (including an ethics course)
12 Social Science or Humanities (note: these 12 credits include the credits taken to fulfill the previous two requirements)

In additional, a program must specify the total number of semester credits needed to graduate and may specify additional credit requirements for other topical areas. For example, the architectural engineering program requires:

31 Math or Science credits
47 Program credits
125 Total credits

Since engineering accreditation requires graduates to have a minimum of 30 semester credits of math and natural science coursework and 45 semester credits of engineering coursework, this approach ensures that those requirements are met. The STAT software tallies the number of credits that each student has completed (or has planned) and provides a warning if the student's plan does not meet all of these requirements.

As part of this specification, the program must provide a list of all of the courses (or a set of rules for determining the list) that should be counted towards a topical bucket.

Plea for Your Help

Several data files have been curated to fully specify the requirements for each program. It is very likely that there are errors or omissions in these data files, and I could use your help in finding them. Correcting these early will provide a more satisfactory experience for PDs and advisors as they use this tool.

Nominal Transition Plan Checks

Below you will see links to the nominal transition plans. Please look over all of the transition plans for your program. Here is an example of the first year of the nominal curriculum track for an accounting major transitioning to semesters in year 2:

First year of Accounting Transition in Year 2 track

The columns represent the following:

Code — The course code
Must Have — If check, indicates that this course or a specific alternative is required to graduate
Sufficient — Course(s) that could be substituted in place of this course. For example, taking GS-1030H (if the student is in the scholar's honors program) or COM-3001 (if the student didn't complete GS-1001 prior to the transition to semesters). Note, some courses may require multiple courses be used to substitute for the require course. For example, NUR-2001 has a sufficient entry of NU-290 & NU-2810, meaning that if a student were to complete NU-290 but not NU-2810 before switching to semesters, they would need to take NUR-2001, even though some material would be repeated.
Name — The name of the course
Structure — lecture-lab-credits
Prereqs — Any prerequisites. For example, COM-3001 has a prereq of ( COM-1001 | GS-1001 | GS-1001C | GS-1001E | GS-1010H ) & ( COM-2001 | GS-1002 | GS-1002E | GS-1020H ). The | indicates or while the & indicates and, so a student has the prereqs as long as they have completed any one of the courses in the first set of parentheses and any one of the courses in the second parentheses.
Coreqs — Any co-requisites.

In Figure 1,

EL-LabS is an elective. All quarter electives have a prefix of EL and all semester electives have a prefix of ELC. Each program specifies a list of courses (or a set of rules for determining the list) that may be used to meet this elective requirement.
BA-1000, BA-1227, MA-129, and EL-LabS are all shown as not required. If the student does not complete these courses prior to transitioning to semesters, they will not be required to take specific courses to make up for missing these courses; however, they will still need to meet the credit bucket requirements.

Please verify all the information on the tracks, but specifically that:

the correct courses listed in the correct spots
the Must Have column is correct
the Sufficient column is correct and complete

Transition Plans

Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management Department

Architectural Engineering, B.S.

Math/Science | Program | Total -||- 31 | 47 | 125

Civil Engineering, B.S.

Math/Science | Program | Total -||- ? | 70 | 127

Construction Management, B.S.

Program	Total
72	124

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

Biomedical Engineering, B.S.

Math/Science | Program | Total -||- 31 | 58 | 126

Computer Engineering, B.S.

Math/Science | Program | Total -||- 33 | 64 | 128

Computer Science, B.S.

Math/Science | Program | Total -||- 29 | 64 | 123

Electrical Engineering, B.S.

Math/Science | Program | Total -||- 31 | 66 | 125

Electrical Engineering EEX, B.S.

Math/Science | Program | Total -||- 31 | 66 | 125

Software Engineering, B.S.

Math/Science | Program | Total -||- 31 | 63 | 124

User Experience, B.S.

Program	Total
84	120

Mathematics Department

Program	Total
66	122

Actuarial Science, B.S.

Mechanical Engineering Department

Industrial Engineering

Math/Science | Program | Total -||- 30 | 67 | 128

Mechanical Engineering

Math/Science | Program | Total -||- 30 | 69 | 124

Physics and Chemistry Department

BioMolecular Engineering, B.S.

Math/Science | Program | Total -||- 33 | 56 | 125

Raider School of Business

Accounting, B.S.

Program	Total
96	121

Finance, B.S.

Program	Total
96	121

Management, B.S.

Program	Total
96	121

Marketing, B.S.

Program	Total
96	121

Operations and Systems Management, B.S.

Program	Total
96	121

School of Nursing

Nursing, B.S.

Program	Total
79	128