Specializations - Major / Minor

[Former Member]

Hi All ,

While doing the academic specializations , the module group either can be major / minor . I need the same module group to act in both major and also minor .

The scenario where it will be major for some students and for some ..it will be minor -

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> for the same Program .

How this issue can be solved ? Yet both are assigned in the Module Group Data , it will be lying either in Major / Minor ...which doesnt satisfy my requirements .

Rather than replicating the same module group data as Major and Minor seperatly , how to avoid it ??

Regards

Gajalakshmi

[former_member583013 · Accepted solution]

Gajalakshmi,

This is not how the system is intended to be utilized for majors and minors. They need to be different Module Group categories, and thus you need to create different Module Groups for Major and Minor.

Why, you might ask? Because there is a lot of functionality around this. It is not just a label. For example, when you define Degree Audit rules, you usually assign the rules to a particular specialization object. It would not make sense to have the same rules assigned to major vs. minor.

There may be some workarounds where you have a generic 'major or minor' module group category defined, but you will end up re-writing a lot of inherent functionality to then distinguish between the two cases.

My suggestion is that you just deal with having both objects. In fact, there may be some majors which cannot be minors, and vice versa! If it is a really big issue, then you could just create a simple report which 'copies' the Major module group objects to corresponding 'Minor objects.

Michael

[Former Member]

Thanks Michael .

Let me revert if I have any issues regarding this .

Regards

Gajalakshmi