API – Course Catalog
Introduction
The course catalog object includes all course information of current academic year. The data is showing the latest course catalog and refreshed in a bulk every day.
API Reference
Course Catalog Data Dictionary
| Field | Type | Indexed | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| courseCode | string | Yes | Current course code It is made up of 2 components, a 4-letter course prefix and a 4-digit course number | "courseCode": "ACCT2000" |
| oldCourseCode | string | Yes | Course code used before 2018/2019 academic year It is made up of 2 components, a 4-letter course prefix and a 3-digit course number | "courseCode": "ACCT210" |
| courseTitle | string | Yes | Course Title | "courseTitle": "MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING I" |
| offeringUnit | string | Yes | Abbreviation of Offering Unit | "offeringUnit": "FBA" |
| offeringProgLevel | string | No | Offering programme level, valid values are: UG (undergraduate), PG (postgraduate) | "offeringProgLevel": "UG" |
| offeringDept | string | Yes | Abbreviation of Offering Department | "offeringDept": "AIM" |
| preRequisite | string | No | Pre-requisite course if any | "preRequisite": "ACCT1000" |
| credits | double | No | Credits of the course | "credits": 3.0 |
| courseType | string | No | Type of the course, valid values are: Non-GE, GE (Only for undergraduate) “GE” stands for “General Education” | "courseType": "Non-GE" |
| geArea | string | No | General Education Area (Only for undergraduate) | "geArea": "" |
| suggestedYearOfStudy | integer | No | Suggested Year of Study for this course (Only for undergraduate) | "suggestedYearOfStudy": 2 |
| duration | string | No | Duration of this course | "duration": "Semester Course" |
| gradingSystem | string | No | Grading System of the course | "gradingSystem": "Letter Grade" |
| mediumOfInstruction | string | No | Language used for course instruction | "mediumOfInstruction": "English" |
| courseDescription | string | No | Description of this course | "courseDescription": "This is the first course in the Cost/Managerial sequence for Accounting and Financial Controllership students. It provides an introduction and detailed discussion of Cost Accounting topics such as: Cost terminology, job order and process costing, cost assignment systems, maser budgets and flexible budgets." |
| ilo | string | No | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO) | "ilo": "1. To introduce students to distinguish financial accounting, management accounting, and cost accounting. 2. To introduce different costs terms and cost-volume-profit analysis. 3. To describe the building-block concepts of job costing, activity-based costing and activity-based management. 4. To provide a framwork for judging performance by using master budget and flexible budgets. 5. To differentiate between variable costing and absorption costing, and to identify cost drivers for decision making process." |