Understanding Academic Requirement Groups

Academic requirement groups are the highest-level parent record. They consist of detail lines pointing to conditions, courses, and requirements, as well as parameters that include unit and course requirements. Requirement groups identify the student population to be evaluated in the audit or advisement process. For example, requirement groups can target all undergraduate students, or only undergraduate students in the math plan, or only undergraduate students who belong to a specific student group. The advisement engine evaluates each student's career, program, and plan as well as other pertinent academic data (such as catalog year, also known as requirement term) to determine which requirement groups it should apply to the student.

The academic advisement engine compares a student's career, program, plan, subplan, and precondition with the academic structure established for a requirement group. When the requirement group academic structure matches the student's academic structure, the requirement group is applied to that student.