Course Listings of UT Schools
School of Architecture
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Are course listings searchable?
How are they listed? By prof.,
course number, name?
How many semesters are
included?
Are courses grouped together?
What descriptions are provided?
How detailed are they?
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Do descriptions seem to come
from the instructor or from the
Graduate Catalog?
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Is the layout easy to scan?
http://www.ar.utexas.edu/Curriculum/Courses/index.html
No
By semesters, e.g.: Spring 2002, Fall 2001…
3 semesters, following a link to the previous
Yes, by semesters
Descriptions are generally syllabus of the course and are
various according to different instructor. Majorly contains:
instructor, time, place, objective etc.
The course list has two parts: Schedule and description
Schedule was linked to the Graduate Catalog;
Description was linked into another page called “course
description” sort by course number
Simple but easy
School of Business (e.g.
accounting)
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Are course listings searchable?
How are they listed? By prof.,
course number, name?
How many semesters are
included?
Are courses grouped together?
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What descriptions are provided?
How detailed are they?
Do descriptions seem to come
from the instructor or from the
Graduate Catalog?
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Is the layout easy to scan?
http://www.bus.utexas.edu/dept/accounting/courses.html
No
By course number
2
Courses were grouped together by different departments;
inside department, courses were grouped by semesters; in
each semester, courses were grouped by intro,
undergraduate, and graduate courses
Instead of description, it gives a Course Syllabi Collection
with 5 semesters’ collection of syllabus
From instructor, by using syllabus
No really. Guess it’s because it’s a huge school. I actually
have to go to the site map to look for the department info
College of Communication –
(e.g. advertising )
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Are course listings searchable?
How are they listed? By prof.,
course number, name?
How many semesters are
included?
Are courses grouped together?
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What descriptions are provided?
How detailed are they?
Do descriptions seem to come
from the instructor or from the
Graduate Catalog?
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Is the layout easy to scan?
http://advertising.utexas.edu/
No
By course number
1, with a link to the previous one semester
Courses were grouped together by different departments;
(e.g. advertising )inside department, courses were grouped
by semesters; in each semester, courses were grouped
course numbers
The content of the course and prerequisites
From instructor or the school
It’s fine, but using frames
College of Education – (e.g.
Education Psychology)
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Are course listings searchable?
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How are they listed? By prof.,
course number, name?
How many semesters are
included?
Are courses grouped together?
http://edpsych.edb.utexas.edu/curriculum/courses/index.htm
Yes
(http://edpsych.edb.utexas.edu/curriculum/courses/schedules/Spring2002/search.htm )
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By course number from the Graduate Catalog
3, with a link to the previous semesters
Courses were grouped together by different departments;
(e.g. education psychology )inside department, courses were
grouped by semesters; in each semester, courses were
grouped course numbers
Course description is searchable too. Many different
combinations; The content of the course description seems
be provide by the instructor and contains disclamer—a
general description of “course description”, prerequisites,
objectives, textbooks and grading. Not as detailed as syllabus
but enough to let me know what’s in the course
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What descriptions are provided?
How detailed are they?
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Do descriptions seem to come
from the instructor or from the
Graduate Catalog?
From instructor or the school
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Is the layout easy to scan?
Yes, very
College of Engineering –
(e.g. ECE)
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http://www.ece.utexas.edu/undergradinfo/courseinfo/Course.html
Are course listings searchable?
How are they listed? By prof.,
course number, name?
How many semesters are
included?
Are courses grouped together?
What descriptions are
provided? How detailed are
they?
Do descriptions seem to come
from the instructor or from the
Graduate Catalog?
No
By course number from the Graduate Catalog
Is the layout easy to scan?
Yes, surprisingly
Every semester start fall 1996 till spring 2002
No, simply listed by course numbers
Name of the course, curse fee, prerequisite, unique #, time,
place, instructor; really like the graduate catalog
Law School
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Are course listings searchable?
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How are they listed? By prof.,
course number, name?
How many semesters are
included?
Are courses grouped together?
What descriptions are provided?
How detailed are they?
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http://www.utexas.edu/law/students/school.html
No; but law school gives “View course descriptions, booklists,
and schedules, Get course advice” three different links in
courses
By course title, in alphabetical order
2 semester
Yes, by type, like: seminar, clinic, and independent study…
Description of courses is actually separated from course
schedule; description of courses is searchable and listed by
the title of courses in alphabetical way. It Majorly gives 3~4
sentences to describe the course together with prerequisites
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Do descriptions seem to come
from the instructor or from the
Graduate Catalog?
From instructor
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Is the layout easy to scan?
Yes, and I really like the course advice link
Department of English
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Are course listings searchable?
How are they listed? By prof.,
course number, name?
How many semesters are
included?
Are courses grouped together?
What descriptions are provided?
How detailed are they?
Do descriptions seem to come
from the instructor or from the
Graduate Catalog?
No
Two ways of listing: by course level and by course number
Is the layout easy to scan?
Yes, and I think it’s a good idea to group by course level
Astronomy
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Are course listings searchable?
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How are they listed? By prof.,
course number, name?
How many semesters are
included?
Are courses grouped together?
What descriptions are provided?
How detailed are they?
Do descriptions seem to come
from the instructor or from the
Graduate Catalog?
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http://www.en.utexas.edu/courses/index.html
Is the layout easy to scan?
8 semester with a following link to the previous ones
Yes, in the course level section, courses are grouped together
Description of courses is really like syllabus, title, time,
instructor name, place, objectives, grading, text book, etc.
From instructor
http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/education/courses.html
Yes; in current semester, could be searched for graduate and
undergraduate course; there’s also link for previous(till 1998)
and future (2) semesters
By course number
11
3~4 sentences of description of courses, title, time, instructor
name, place, prerequisite and link to syllabus
From instructor
Okay
Physics
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http://www.ph.utexas.edu/courses.html
Are course listings searchable?
How are they listed? By prof.,
course number, name?
How many semesters are
included?
Are courses grouped together?
What descriptions are provided?
How detailed are they?
Do descriptions seem to come
from the instructor or from the
Graduate Catalog?
No
By course number
Is the layout easy to scan?
Okay
1 with a link to the former 9 semesters
Yes, by graduate courses and undergraduate courses
There’s no description provided, only link to the class
homepage
From instructor
Use of orange on other UT pages
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What is the color scheme for other departments (link color, logo color,
navigation bar color, etc.)?
o Architecture: black background; white text, white underline for un
visited links, yellow for visited links; navigation bar red
School/dep
Background Text color
Link color
Visited link
Navigation bar
Architecture
Business
Black
Blue, white
White
Black
Yellow
Light blue
Red bg with white font
Blue with white font
Advertising
White
Grey
White
Blue,
underline
Gray
Distance
Education
Education
Psychology
Engineering
White
Black
Deep green
Blue, white
Black
Black, dark
blue
Orange
White, gray font, little
animation
White with roll over of
deep green
Blue with white font
White
White
Blue
Maroon
Art and art
history
Law school
White
Black
Gray
White
Black
Liberal Arts
White
Black
Black
underline
Blue
underline
Orange,
green, red…
Blue
Maroon
Blue with white font,
black with whit font
Black with white font
Orange with deep orange
font
Orange with white font
on top;
Sage green on the left
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Is there any consistency between departments?
No, not really
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What is most appealing?
o Business school’s different color plate for different section, e.g.
green for faculty, blue for student, etc
o Distance’s navigation
o Law school’s index page seems appealing