DARS
Definitions
Audit
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Report produced by DARS for a single student showing coursework acceptability and applicability toward meeting degree requirements. Shows which requirements, subrequirements, and courses are completed and which remain to be completed. |
Degree
Program
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The collection of all requirements a student must meet in order to graduate. This includes UAB graduation requirements (minimum semester hours, GPA, and residency requirements), school requirements (i.e., GPA on all business courses; A&H, NSM, and SBS school-wide requirements for graduation), core requirements, and major requirements (courses, residency, and GPA). |
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Exception |
A method of handling an individual student’s approved variation from the regular degree program. Exceptions are most commonly used for course substitutions or for a waiver of hours in a specific subrequirement. All exceptions must be initiated by the student’s academic advisor using an Exception Form. |
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Program Code |
Major code as found on STARS |
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Requirement |
Component of a degree program which usually requires a minimum number of credits, courses, GPA and/or subrequirements to be complete. Requirements consist of one or more subrequirements. |
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Subrequirement |
An individual piece of a requirement. Subrequirements may be required or optional, and deal with specific courses, credit hours, and/or GPA’s. |
Audit Notations
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+ |
Subrequirement is complete |
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- |
Subrequirement is not complete |
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* |
A collection subrequirement. This type of subrequirement is not used to fulfill a requirement but instead counts courses or credits that meet specific criteria (i.e., the subrequirement that collects two-year school transfer credit and limits it to 64 hours). As a result these subrequirements are neither complete nor incomplete. |
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*** |
Occurs after a department prefix to mean any course fitting certain criteria. For example, “Select From BY 3**” means the student can choose any 300-level Biology course to fulfill this subrequirement; “Select From PHL ***” means the student can select any PHL course |
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Group |
A set of courses within a subrequirement (i.e., AST 101 & AST 111 are a group since they must be taken together to fulfill Area III). |
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IP |
In-progress courses are being used in a requirement |
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Matched As |
How or why a course meets a subrequirement. Frequently these are cross-listed courses, courses with more than one articulation (i.e., BUS 100 from an Alabama two-year school is a general elective but also may count in the business GPA), and courses that have been matched as CORE or TRAC. |
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Needs |
What is left (credit hours, courses or subrequirements) to be completed to meet a requirement or subrequirement |
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NO |
Requirement is not complete |
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Not From |
Courses that are specifically unacceptable to meet a subrequirement |
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OK |
Requirement is complete; all subrequirements must be complete for a requirement to be completed |
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R |
With a + or – in front of it, designates a required course that has either been completed or is incomplete within a subrequirement (i.e., Industrial Distribution majors must have 5 hours of lower level electives but EGR 100 and ME 101 are required as part of those five hours). |
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Select From |
Courses that are acceptable to meet a subrequirement |
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Sub-group |
Another name for subrequirement |
Course Notations
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ADVS |
When followed by a three digit number means a student should discuss the results of this transfer course’s articulation with their advisor. ADVS courses include courses that have choices of how they may be used (i.e., HY 110 or HY 111), have conditions attached to them (i.e., may be used for EGR 100 if student writes an ethics and safety paper), or are Special Topics courses where the applicability of the course toward the student’s degree depends on the subject matter of the course. |
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CORE |
When followed by a three digit number means this transfer course has no known UAB equivalent but is potentially used in some portion of the Core Curriculum |
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DEPT+T |
When followed by a three digit number means this transfer course has no UAB equivalent but may be used as part of that department’s major as an elective in that major. The first digit of the three digit number always indicates the course level of the transfer course . For example, ANTT106 is a transfer course that may be used as a 100-level elective in the anthropology major; SOCT224 may be used as a 200-level elective in the sociology major; MAT 310 may be used as a 300-level elective in the math major; CMT 474 may be used as a 400-level elective in the communications management major. |
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DM |
December Miniterm course |
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ELEC |
When followed by a three digit number means this transfer course has been evaluated as a general elective for all majors |
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FA |
Fall Term course |
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NOTR |
Course that does not transfer to UAB |
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SM |
September Miniterm course |
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SP |
Spring Term course |
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SU |
Summer Term course |
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TRAC |
When followed by a three digit number means this transfer course can be used to meet one of the three tracks in A&H, NSM, and SBS school-wide requirements. |
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UNKN |
When followed by a three digit number means this transfer course does not have an articulation on record |
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WI |
Winter Term course |
Grade Notations
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>I |
In-progress course |
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>N |
Repeated course – counts in GPA but no credit earned |
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>R |
Repeated course – not counted in GPA |
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>S |
Credit for this course has been split between at least two subrequirements |
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AV |
Averaged grade; occurs on transfer courses where two transfer courses with different grades are equivalent to a single UAB course. DARS averages the two transfer grades and stores this average for GPA calculation. |
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RG |
Course that student is currently registered for |
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TA |
Transfer grade of A |
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TB |
Transfer grade of B |
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TC |
Transfer grade of C |
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TD |
Transfer grade of D |
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TF |
Transfer grade of F |
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TP |
Transfer grade of P or garde given to AP/CLEP/Miltary Credit or Credit by Exam |