Notion of Elective Courses (Chose x courses from Y set of courses)

[haydenfree]

Example inquery:

I’m looking at the templates on the website. It looks like it can handle required courses and elective courses, but nothing like ‘you must choose x courses from a list of y options, and also w courses from another list of z options’. Any suggestions?

@heileman Can you write up a response that addresses this to be added to FAQ? Do we want to rethink this and potentially support it in a more robust way?

[haydenfree]

Q: How do I treat electives? For example, students in a Business Administration program are required to take 24 credits of business electives.

A: An elective can be filled by some number of possible courses, so the complexity of the curriculum may vary depending on requisites of the chosen courses. For this reason an elective can be treated as a normal course with no requisites, and each is often 3 hours. In this case we recommend creating “Business Elective 1”, “Business Elective 2”, etc until the total number of hours are filled.

Alternatively, you can choose the most common courses taken to satisfy the electives, and this will give you an idea of the pathway and complexity that “most” students are following.