The University registrar released the Spring 2007 Course Offering Directory online today.
One new change has been made to the COD, according to University Registrar Carol Stanley: students will now be able to open both the online database which houses the University record and the COD at the same time.
"You'll be able to toggle between the course descriptions and COD," she said.
According to Stanley, individual schools and departments determine course offerings, rather than the registrar.
"Departments determine their course offerings in concert with their faculty," Stanley said. "[The University Registrar] processes the information that is sent to us by the schools in the department to produce the online course directory."
Each school goes about determining its semester offerings in a different way, said Stanley.
"School registrars may be or may not be involved," she said. "The manner in which a school identifies its course offerings could be different across the University."
Schools such as the College of Arts & Sciences and the School of Nursing have their own school-level registrars which determine classes to offer.
According to Britta Keller, Nursing School registrar, course offerings do not change that much from semester to semester within the Nursing School.
It doesn't change that much on a semesterly basis," she said. "It's very regimented in the School of Nursing."
Keller added that the structured academic plan for each student limits their freedom of class choice.
"They have a plan of study and that actually doesn't change," she said.
Larger schools such as the College often have departments that offer new classes, such as the economics department.
According to Economics Department Chair Bruce Reynolds, four new faculty hires have allowed the department to offer additional courses such as Econ 372, which studies regression analysis with an emphasis on applications rather than theory, and Econ 402, which covers the building blocks of modern auction theory.
According to Pam Lawson, University registrar instructional space coordinator, there are about 170 classroom spaces available; however, coordinating location availability and times can be a problem, Stanley said.
"There are always challenges for the 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. window," she said. "Currently that's where most of the challenges are, that and particular kinds of classrooms ... and the limitations we might have on appropriate configured spaces."
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