How to conduct a course search

• Term: You must select one or more terms to search for courses. Please check the box of the terms that you would like to search. If you want to search all available terms, please check the “Select All” box.
  
  
• Institution: You must select one or more institutions to search for courses. Click on the institution that you would like to search on the left panel then click “add” to add the institution to the right panel. Repeat the previous steps if you would like to search courses at more than one institution. If you would like to search courses at all the institutions, please click on “add all.”
  
  
• Delivery Method: Delivery method is the technology by which the course will be taught. Please select one or more delivery methods for your search. If you have questions on the delivery method, please click here (the link to the explanation of the delivery method).
  
  
• Subject/Discipline: You can limit your search to a certain subject/discipline area by selecting it from the list. If you are not sure which subject area you would like to search, just search “All Subject Areas.”
  
  
• Keyword and Partial word Search: You can search courses by typing in the keyword of the course. For example, you may type in “eng” to search for courses that contain “English”, “England” or “engineering” in the course title.
  
  
• Course Prefix and/or Number: If you know the prefix and number of the courses that you would like to search, then you can select it from here directly. For example, if you know the course you want to search is Freshmen Composition I (ENC 1101), then you can select “ENC” from the prefix and “1101” from the number. If you have questions regarding the course prefix and number, please click here (link to the course prefix and number help).

Distance Education Delivery Methods:

• Video: Video courses include Telecourse and videotape course. Telecourses take advantage of public educational broadcast channels for distribution. Videotape course is a course recorded in videotape. Videotape courses can be checked out from the library and viewed by a VCR attached to a television.
  
  
• Multimedia: These courses incorporate a variety of technologies such as the Internet, CD-ROM, video, TV, and print materials.
  
  
• Print: Print course is also known as correspondence course, independent study, or AIM. These courses are delivered via printed materials. In these courses, course materials, assignments and instructor-student communication are print-based and exchanged by postal service.
  
  
• Internet: Course information, instruction, interaction, and assignments are transferred over the Internet in real time or asynchronously. These courses, conducted entirely over the World Wide Web and Internet technologies, require students to have access to a computer, a modem with an Internet connection, a WWW browser and e-mail. Students must also have the ability to upload and download files from the World Wide Web.
  
  
• Two-way TV: Two-way TV is sometimes called interactive TV, video conferencing, or interactive video. Two-way TV refers to the live audio and visual communication between multiple parties and locations using video and computer technology and satellite transmission. Two-way TV courses are usually held in a special equipped conference room. Students must attend the class at a specified campus location. The instructor provides live instruction in the origination classroom and appears via video and audio links to the remote instruction sites.