CAST Notes
For admission purposes a student’s interest is recorded in Banner as the field of study/major. Prior to CAST registration, students that respond to the survey with a change in interest will have their field of study/major updated in Banner.
Understanding Tulane Banner configuration of Curriculum
The curriculum is the program defined as: School + Degree + Level (e.g., LABA_UG), followed by the field of study/ major(s) and minor(s) (e.g., ENGL=English)
Programs, majors, and minors are assigned priorities in increments of 10, 20,30 etc. ; priority 10 program is the primary program, with a priority 10 primary major.
The primary major must be in the program’s school (e.g., the primary priority 10 program is LABA_UG, the primary priority 10 major must be in the School of Liberal Arts, could be ANTH, COMM, ENGL, SOCI, UNDL etc.
In order to associate an undeclared major with a college within the University, we have created specific “undeclared” majors to be used by each school. For example , UNDL=Undeclared Liberal Arts, UNDB=Undeclared Business, UNDS=Undeclared Science and Engineering etc.
Updating a learner record after confirm/deposit
Changing a major
In this example the student had declared an interest in Communication, his new interest is in English.
In SFAREGS, enter the term and the student’s ID. Go.
If you get a notification that the student has holds, enter ‘OVR’ in the Override field.
Select the Curricula tab.
To update a student’s learner record, you must create a new curriculum record by selecting the Duplicate button icon. The Banner Duplicate function will save the initial record, and create an identical record for you to be able to update.
Click Duplicate and next block to Field of Study. Click Delete to remove the Communication major.
Click Insert to enter the new major. In the Field of Study block, type in the new major code, which is ENGL (English). The Department will auto-fill.
If the student has a second interest, which shows as a priority 20 major, leave it in place. Save. If you see an error indicating a mismatch between Field of Study and Department, bypass by clicking OK.
Review minors to make sure that there’s no duplication between a minor and major. If a student changes to Sociology major, if they have a Sociology minor, delete the Sociology minor.
Changing a program (school and degree)
In this example we’re updating the interest from English to Psychology (LABA_UG ENGL to SEBS_UG PSYC). See also: Identifying a major’s respective school
Click Duplicate.
Click Program and enter the new program. Tab through and data for the new program will auto-fill.
Next block to Field of Study and change the new major. Tab through and Department will auto-fill. Save. If the student has a second interest, a priority 20 major, leave that in place.
Adding the ZZPM attribute
The ZZPM attribute indicates a student’s interest in pre-medical studies. See: Managing student attributes (SGASADD)
If the student is on the ZZPM list, but does not have the attribute, add it to their record. If the student is NOT on the ZZPM list, but does have the attribute, remove it.
Appendix: Identifying a major’s respective school
Access STVMAJR. Navigate to the major code you’re looking into. Click on the major’s line and then click on More Information under the top purple navigation bar.
You will see the department and college/school ownership of the major.
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