Course Catalog List Block

Requires the Courses A collection of features or functionality that can be enabled on sites. WDS has made several optional modules available to site administrators to enable on their site. For example, the "News" module enables the News content type and provide a News List Block for displaying news on a page.

The courses module must first be enabled on your site.

Overview

The Course Catalog List block displays a list of courses from Princeton's course catalog. The courses displayed are the same as those from the field of study pages on the Undergraduate Announcement website (for undergraduate courses) and the Graduate School website (for graduate courses).

This block differs from the Course Offerings by Term List Block which displays courses that are offered in a particular term. While that block requires you first import courses from the subject you're interested in displaying, this block has no such requirement. You can simply add this block to a page and select the subject(s) to display courses from.

Display Options

  • Choose one or more subjects to display courses from.
  • Choose to display only undergraduate courses, only graduate courses, or both.
  • Choose from three options for how courses are ordered (see further explanation below).
  • Choose to display the title only, or include the description and distribution area (for undergraduate).

Sort

There are three options for sorting courses:

Title
Simply sort alphabetically by the course title.

Subject/catnum (based on primary)
Sort first by the subject code, and then by the catalog number. For courses that have multiple subject associations, this sort only looks at the primary subject association for the course. This is how courses are sorted on the Registrar's course offerings results.

The following two GEO courses would be sorted as such:

  1. ENV 354 / GEO 368 - Climate and Weather: Order in the Chaos
  2. GEO 103 - Natural Disasters

Subject/catnum (based on filtered subj)
Sort first by the subject code, and then by the catalog number. For courses that have multiple subject associations, this sort looks at the subject that you chose to display. As such, this option is only useful if you are showing a listing of all courses for a single subject, but you want the courses ordered by catalog number of that single subject.

The following two GEO courses would be sorted as such, assuming that GEO is selected as a filtered subject to display:

  1. GEO 103 - Natural Disasters
  2. ENV 354 / GEO 368 - Climate and Weather: Order in the Chaos

Explore

  • Course

    Import Princeton courses from a particular term and display them using the Course Offerings by Term List block.

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