- DATA VIEW NAME
- COURSE_OFFERING
- OVERVIEW
- This view contains course offering information for all course records.
- LOAD FREQUENCY
- Data is refreshed daily Monday through Friday.
- DATA CUSTODIAN
- Registrar’s Office
Contact: Phil Hull - AUTHORIZATION
- You must receive approval to access data from the data custodian. For information about how to get authorized for InfoAccess data views, connect to the InfoAccess Home Page
- SPECIAL
CONSIDERATIONS - None.
- QUESTIONS
- Contact: Division of Information Technology Help Desk
Phone: 264-HELP (4357) - LAST UPDATED
- 10/2008 – New view created.
1/2010 – Data Custodian Change C4j
09/2012 – Data Custodian Contact changed from Karen Hanson to Kim Alling
11/2014 – Added Course_Typically_Offered s8w.
07/2019 – Course Typically Offered customization was removed (it was not producing accurate information). This field will remain on the view but will not be populated: Course_Typically_Offered - DATA FORMATS
- Primary Key Columns are identified with an asterisk(*)
- Alphanumeric Data
- VARCHAR2( N) (N) = maximum length. Field contains letters and/or numbers. Trailing blanks are eliminated.
Example: VARCHAR2 (5) could contain ‘ABC12’ or ‘ABC’ or ‘A’ - Numeric Data
- NUMBER (N) (N) = length. Field contains only numbers.
NUMBER (X,Y) = format for numbers with decimal positions.
X = total number of digits
Y = the number of digits after the decimal
Examples: NUMBER (6) represents 250012 NUMBER (6,2) represents 2500.12 - Date
- DATE – Date can be in various formats. Date functions available with your query tool can be used to format the date.
Examples: DATE (YYYYMMDD), DATE (YYDDD), DATE (DD-MM-YY)
| Column Name | Format | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Course_Key | Number (8) | A unique identifier that is system generated. Useful for joining to other course data views. |
| *Course_Offering_Number | Number (2) | A sequential number given to each different offering of a course. Most courses have only one offering; crosslisted courses have multiple offerings, and each one has a unique Course Offering Number. |
| Academic_Group_Code | Varchar2 (5) | The school/college offering the course. Formerly College Code |
| Subject_Code | Varchar2 (8) | The timetable department number of the course. For example, 600 is Mathematics. |
| Subject_Descr | Varchar2 (30) | The department name corresponding to the subject code. |
| Subject_Descr_Short | Varchar2(10) | The short department name corresponding to the subject code. |
| Catalog_Number | Varchar2 (10) | The course number associated with the title of the course. |
| Catalog_Print_Ind | Varchar2 (1) | Catalog print indicator Y = Course is printed in course catalog. N = Course is not printed in course catalog. |
| Academic_Organization_Code | Varchar2 (10) | Represents a group of related subject codes. For example, French (400) and Italian (508) are two different subjects but the same academic organization. This is used primarily to establish security levels in ISIS. |
| Course_Typically_Offered | Varchar2(10) | No longer populated |
| Extract_Date_Time | Date | The date and time these data were extracted. Format : YYYYMMDD HH24:MI:SS |