Course Planning Consultant (CPC)

Repeated Courses, Course Substitutions, and Special-Situation Adjustments

Accounting For Repeated Courses:

If you plan take a course over for which credit has been received, it will not be presented in the ENTER Plan as a course yet to be taken. List that course in one of the Other Courses write-in boxes in the ENTER Plan step, preceding it with the symbol %.

Example:
PHYS 211 [%PHYS 211] <-- brackets denote write-in data entry box

Accounting For Required Course Substitutions:

The general rule of thumb, if a recognized alternative to a required course is taken, is to tell the CPC ENTER Plan step that the required course is being taken, that is, the one listed in the curriculum. This will permit the CPC to check for proper prerequisites. But the substituted course should also be indicated by writing it in one of the Other Courses boxes, preceding it with the "insert" symbol ^. The meaning of the '^' in this context is "this course is superseding the comparable required one indicated elsewhere in the ENTER Plan."

Examples:
[x] MATH 225 (the requirement) <-- brackets denote click box
[^MATH 415] (the alternate) <-- brackets denote data entry box

Here are some other common pairs:

Adjustment for Prerequisite/Corequisite Waivers (if Approved Only):

In certain situations, permission may be granted by your Advisor or the Chief Advisor in writing to waive the normal prerequisite or corequisite for a required course. This would normally confound the CPC logic because the prerequisite or corequisite would be diagnosed as missing. It would thus result in a warning message preventing completion of the CPC ENTER Plan step.

To make the CPC's ENTER Plan step work in this situation, use the <make changes> option in the VERIFY Courses step of the CPC to indicate (falsely) that you will have completed the course(s) in question. But to signify approval for this departure from the normal prerequisites and/or corequisites and that you are actually taking the course(s), you must also enter them in the Elective course box(es) of the ENTER Plan step along with other normal Electives, together with the following indicated prefixes:

• for a course being taken concurrently, which is ordinarily a prerequisite:
  & COURSE example: [&MATH285] <-- brackets denote data entry box

• for a course for which credit has not been earned, which is ordinarily a prerequisite, or not being earned concurrently, which is normally a corequisite:

• #COURSE example: [#CHEM103]