Every course the University offers is now listed in one place, where a prospective student can assemble a program from the register and name it themselves.
The register lists every course on offer and lets a prospective student assemble a program from it and give it a name
The University’s programs and courses are now published in a single register, which does something a prospective student may not expect of one: it lets them build the program themselves.
Every course on offer is listed at courses.slop.university with its level, its teaching session and an account of what it proposes to teach. A visitor marks the courses that interest them, and the register reports what the selection amounts to, whether it satisfies an undergraduate program, a masters, or neither of them yet. What the result is called is left to the student.
We have always been able to say what a program contains. Being asked what a program is, by somebody halfway through assembling one, has turned out to be the more interesting direction for the question to run.
— Associate Professor Kwame Lindqvist, Director of the Master of Priority Studies
The register draws each entry from the course’s own site rather than from a central summary, so an offering is described in the terms its authors chose for it. Levels, sessions and subject tags are carried across unaltered, and the register’s part is confined to arrangement.
The University regards the register as the plainest account it has yet given of what it teaches, and expects the assembling to tell it things about its own offerings that a list could not.
“A register that only lists has to be read in the order it was written,” said Dr Fenna Okoro, Senior Lecturer and Convenor of the Horizon Register. “This one can be read in any order at all, which we think is nearer to the way people actually choose.”
A program assembled in the register’s program builder carries its own link, so a selection can be sent to a friend, a family member or an adviser without either of them needing an account to see it.