Courses

Courses lay one level of abstraction above sections in the academic hierarchy at UTD. A course represents a class offered by a school at UTD.

A Course should not be confused with a Section which is the actual instantiation of a Course with a professor and dedicated meeting times.A course can have multiple sections associated with it every semester. An example of a course would be ECS1100.

This data will include important pieces of information that a relevant to every section of the course like its prerequisites and the number of credit hours. All of the attributes associated with a course are as follows:

Properties

Name	Type	Required	Restrictions	Description
_id	string	true	none	The primary key associated with a course
course_number	string	true	none	The course's official number
subject_prefix	string	true	none	The course's subject prefix
title	string	true	none	The course's title
description	string	true	none	The course's description
school	string	true	none	The course's school
credit_hours	string	true	none	The number of credit hours awarded by successful completion of the course
class_level	string	true	none	The level of education that this course course corresponds to
activity_type	string	true	none	The type of class this course corresponds to
grading	string	true	none	The grading status of this course
internal_course_number	string	true	none	The internal (university) number used to reference this course
prerequisites	CollectionRequirement	false	none	A Collection Requirement object containing a list of the courses that must be taken before this course
corequisites	CollectionRequirement	false	none	A Collection Requirement object containing a list of the courses that must be taken before or alongside this course
lecture_contact_hours	string	true	none	The weekly contact hours in lecture for a course
laboratory_contact_hours	string	true	none	The weekly contact hours in laboratory for a course
offering_frequency	string	true	none	The frequency of offering a course. The meanings of each letter can be found in the UTD Course Policies page. Example: "S", "Y", "T", "R" course

Querying a Course

There are two main ways to query for a course:

1. By Query Paramters
2. By ID

Each of these methods has its own API endpoint to get the requested data.

GET /course

The default endpoint for /course returns a list of courses matching the set of query parameters provided.

Below is a list of all of the parameters that can be used to refine your query:

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
course_number	query	string	false	The course's official number
subject_prefix	query	string	false	The course's subject prefix
title	query	string	false	The course's title
description	query	string	false	The course's description
school	query	string	false	The course's school
credit_hours	query	string	false	The number of credit hours awarded by successful completion of the course
class_level	query	string	false	The level of education that this course course corresponds to
activity_type	query	string	false	The type of class this course corresponds to
grading	query	string	false	The grading status of this course
internal_course_number	query	string	false	The internal (university) number used to reference this course
lecture_contact_hours	query	string	false	The weekly contact hours in lecture for a course
offering_frequency	query	string	false	The frequency of offering a course

Example responses

200 Response

[
  {
    "_id": "string",
    "course_number": "string",
    "subject_prefix": "string",
    "title": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "school": "string",
    "credit_hours": "string",
    "class_level": "string",
    "activity_type": "string",
    "grading": "string",
    "internal_course_number": "string",
    "prerequisites": {
      "name": "string",
      "required": 0,
      "options": [
        {
          "type": null
        }
      ],
      "type": null
    },
    "corequisites": {
      "name": "string",
      "required": 0,
      "options": [
        {
          "type": null
        }
      ],
      "type": null
    },
    "lecture_contact_hours": "string",
    "laboratory_contact_hours": "string",
    "offering_frequency": "string"
  }
]

GET /course/{id}

This endpoint returns a single Course object with a primary key matching {id}.

Parameters

This endpoint accepts a single route paramter: id

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
id	path	string	true	ID of the course to get

Example responses

200 Response

{
  "_id": "string",
  "course_number": "string",
  "subject_prefix": "string",
  "title": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "school": "string",
  "credit_hours": "string",
  "class_level": "string",
  "activity_type": "string",
  "grading": "string",
  "internal_course_number": "string",
  "prerequisites": {
    "name": "string",
    "required": 0,
    "options": [
      {
        "type": null
      }
    ],
    "type": null
  },
  "corequisites": {
    "name": "string",
    "required": 0,
    "options": [
      {
        "type": null
      }
    ],
    "type": null
  },
  "lecture_contact_hours": "string",
  "laboratory_contact_hours": "string",
  "offering_frequency": "string"
}