What to do about DEIs

[ArturoAmaya]

DEIs are a campus-wide graduation requirement. Their application, if you will, is inconsistent across colleges. On the one hand, colleges like Warren seem to stick it in everywhere AND specify it as a major-overlapping class. On the other hand, after our name-simplification, some colleges don't include a DEI at all, like RE and TH.

Example of Warren being overzealous: BI31 has, in the Warren degree plan, a DEI listed as a major course.

It has course ID 28. That is used by another course in the other plans.

See here the SN plan, where course ID 28 is UD EBE. The same happens in the TH plan.

This conflicts with the MU plan too, where course ID 28 is taken by UD BIO ELECTIVE (which I think is another issue to bring up, why are they different? afaik I used the latest master code to generate this, but I'll double check)

In the RE, SI, and FI plans course ID 28 is an "Additional Course" (✅).

An example of underreporting: CG25: MU has it (ID36), MU has it (ID35), SI has it (ID29), SN has it (ID28), RE has it (ID33), WA has it (ID15, in the major courses but whatever), but TH doesn't have it. At all. The thing is... DOC 1 satisfies the DEI requirement, and it's mandatory for TH students - they don't need an additional course. DOC 1 was stripped of the DEI title. This also points to a more generic sub-problem in underreporting - there are certain majors, like communications, or colleges, like TH, that mandate a specific course that satisfies the DEI requirement. In COMM's case it's COMM 10, in TH's case it's DOC 1.

Should every degree plan have a DEI somewhere in there? (To a lesser degree of importance, should every degree plan include an AHI? Most US students have already satisfied it, but international students probably haven't).

While we decide, I'm going to compile a list of the majors that have a major class that satisfies the DEI (i.e. a major where the course is explicitly set, like COMM10, not one where a course from a list could satisfy the DEI - we should still think about what to do for those).

[ArturoAmaya]

note that the warren thing isnt really a bug with the scripts its really just an issue with the data we've been given. the underreporting is kinda an issue with us, but ik for a fact that some degree plans didnt include the dei tag for classes like comm10

[SheepTester]

It seems that Curricular Analytics doesn't really seem to care about courses vs. additional courses since it merges them together in the end. Not sure why the CSV format has that distinction when it's not used

[ArturoAmaya]

Yeaaaah... on the website it doesn't seem to make a difference, but I have no clue if it makes a difference when using the Julia package, which is what I understand is going to be doing the heavy analytic lifting.

[ArturoAmaya]

I guess that's a question for Hayden :)

[ArturoAmaya]

This also points to a more generic sub-problem in underreporting - there are certain majors, like communications, or colleges, like TH, that mandate a specific course that satisfies the DEI requirement. In COMM's case it's COMM 10, in TH's case it's DOC 1.

Ok so:

• AN29 makes students take ANTH 5 or ANTH 42 or ANTH 43 or SOCI 70 or PSYC 1. ANTH 43 satisfies the DEI
• CM26 makes students take COMM 10. COMM 10 satisfies the DEI
• CR25 makes students take CGS 2A. CGS 2A satisfies the DEI
• ED25 makes students take EDS 139 three times. EDS 139 satisfies the DEI
• ET25 makes students take ETHN 1 and ETHN 2. Both satisfy the DEI
• LT36 makes students take LTEN 27 or LTEN 28 or LTEN 29. Any of the three satisfies the DEI.
• PC35 makes students take MGT 18 - it satisfies the DEI.
• SO25, SO27, SO28, SO29, SO30, SO31, SO32, SO33 all make students take SOCI 2, satisfying the DEI.
• US26 makes students take USP 1 and then USP 3; both satisfy the DEI.
• US27 makes students take USP 1 or USP 2. USP 1 satisfies the DEI.

I think it would be nice but not necessary to include these courses as explicitly DEI, so COMM 10 as COMM10 (DEI) or something like that. I realize that's kind of annoying though, especially when it's an OR-type of class and the other courses don't satisfy ;(

[ArturoAmaya]

For the record, here's a list of the cases where the DEI is in the major classes. I believe all but 10 are from Warren... DEI_major.txt And here's a list of degree plans where the DEI is missing entirely. 160 are from TH, 76 are from RE, and the others are from a small assortment of other colleges. DEI_missing.txt

Whatever we choose to do, we should probably standardize - either nobody has a DEI anywhere or everybody has a DEI (my preferred choice).

[ArturoAmaya]

sigh… I only just found that there are some degree plans that straight up do not include a DEI on the website (ex:ERC's BI37 plan). I guess this nullifies my worries over our curricula not having it every time. It's disappointing to see though, like the degree plans that don't add up to 180 units by design, or the catalog/schedule of classes not being in sync.