Majors

Screen Description

The Majors screen displays and allows editing of the list of available majors for the current academic session.

Majors are one of the student curricular properties, typically used to express a specialization. Each major belongs to a particular academic area. Student curriculum may contain the following items:

• Academic Area (e.g., college or program of study)
• Academic Classification (e.g., year or semester of study)
• Major (e.g., specialization)
• Concentration (optional, e.g., program/specialization variant)
• Campus (optional)
• Degree (optional, e.g., Master, Bachelor or Certification)
• Program (optional)

or

• Academic Area (e.g., college or program of study)
• Academic Classification (e.g., year or semester of study)
• Minor

A student may contain multiple tuples of (academic area, classification, major, concentration, campus, degree, program) and/or (academic area, classification, minor).

Properties

Each major contains the following properties:

• External Id
  • External ID of the major
  • External IDs are only editable via the XML import
  • Majors with an external ID cannot be deleted. The presence of the External ID indicates that the major has been imported from an external system.
• Code
  • Abbreviation/Code of the major
• Name
  • Name of the major
• Academic Area
  • Academic area to which the major belongs

A major may contain one or more concentrations (variants), there are editable on the Concentrations screen.

Operations

The table can be sorted by any of its columns, just by clicking on the column header and the sorting option that opens.

Add Major

Click Add to add a new major

• Click Save to create a new major
• Click Back to return to the list without making any changes

Edit Major

Click a particular major to make changes or to delete the major

• Click Save to make changes, Back to return to the list without making any changes
• Click Previous or Next to save the changes and go to the previous or next major respectively
• Click Delete to delete a major. Majors with an external ID (i.e., that has been imported from an external system) cannot be deleted.

Edit Majors

Click Edit to edit all majors

• Use the icon to add a new line and to delete a line
• Majors with an external ID (i.e., that has been imported from an external system) cannot be deleted
• Click Save to make changes, Back to return to the list without making any changes

Export CSV/PDF

Click the Export CSV or Export PDF to export the list of majors to a CSV or PDF document respectively

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