The segments below give a general overview of the five petition types available through the workflow.
Add Course(s) to an Area
The Add Courses petition type is intended to be used to add courses from a student’s record to a requirement. This petition type is good for situations in which a course is being used to fulfill a requirement, but is not intended to replace any particular UCSB course that is already approved to count towards the requirement. This may be the only option for petitioning elective requirements where a student is allowed to choose one or more courses from a large set of options.
What this petition type does:
The courses specified from the student record in the ‘Select Courses’ field are added to the list of courses which may apply to the requirement selected in the ‘Requirement’ field.
What this petition doesn’t do:
It cannot change the number of courses applied.
E.g. if you want to use 2 courses from the student record to satisfy 3 required courses, this petition cannot make that kind of adjustment. (See ‘Substitute a Course’)
It cannot alter the unit value of the course being added (Use Other type).
E.g. if a transfer course was granted 6 units and you only want 4 units to apply to the requirement, this petition cannot handle the request
It cannot apply a course to multiple areas/split a course between subrequirements. (Use Other type)
It cannot override a unit or course limitation.
E.g. A limitation that only 4 units of 199 coursework apply to the major requirements or a limitation that only 8 units from a particular supercourse apply to the major requirements.
It cannot override the rejection of a course by a requirement.
E.g. the Spanish major requirements specifically exclude SPAN 195 and 196 from applying to area E of the upper division. This course rejection is coded into DARS and can only be overridden by an Other petition.
Additional notes:
This petition type is never viewed by anyone in Academic Services and is fed into uAchieve exactly as entered.
This petition does not ‘force’ the course selected to apply to the requirement specified. It simply informs uAchieve that it may use the course(s) towards the requirement area. If the course may also be used to satisfy a different requirement area, uAchieve will apply the course to the first requirement it encounters that needs it.
Substitute a Course within an Area
The Substitute Courses petition type is intended for situations in which you would like to apply courses from the student record as substitutes for specific courses in the degree requirements.