As students battle with the ISIS man, the Faculty Senate is working to make the Course Offering Directory searchable by topic in time for registration for next fall's classes.
The updated COD will include its current information as well as a new search engine in which students will enter keywords and receive a list of courses in all departments matching the requested topic.
Currently, individual departments are choosing keywords for their classes, and the Senate is compiling a database of the submissions.
The topic search should be available in time for fall 2001 course registration, Faculty Senate Chairwoman Patricia H. Werhane said.
Primarily positive feedback on the initiative continues to come from faculty, said Julian Connolly, project coordinator and Senate member.
"People are reacting positively to what we set out to try to do - give students flexibility to find out about courses in departments they may not otherwise have found," Connolly said.
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He expects to compile a fairly long list of keywords at the end of this semester. The Senate will then return the list to departments for them to choose the few words they want to describe each of their courses.
Werhane said she believes the keyword search will benefit students as well as faculty.
"Faculty will all be better advisors because most of us don't know the COD by heart either," she said.
Former Faculty Senate Chairman David T. Gies agreed with Werhane and added that the new search engine will make interdisciplinary courses easier for students to locate.
"It think it's going to produce information about the kinds of interdisciplinaries that we already have and make it easier to identify them," Gies said.
Complaints of excess paperwork are the only negative comments the Senate is receiving from departments, Connolly said.
Some faculty members are not convinced simply organizing course titles by topic will improve registration for students, he said.
Werhane noted that some professional schools, including the Darden and Medical Schools, may not participate to a full extent because their students do not have as much choice in course selection.
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