Course Catalog Dataset

The "Course Catalog Dataset" contains all 8,589 sections of courses offered at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) during the Fall 2019 semester, organized into structured CSV file.

Dataset Format: Well-formatted CSV with column headers as the first row
Dataset Size: 8589 rows × 10 columns
CSV File Location: https://waf.cs.illinois.edu/discovery/course-catalog.csv
Dataset Variables:
- Year : number ➜ The year the course section was offered
- Term : string ➜ The term the course section was offered (Fall, Spring, Summer, or Winter)
- YearTerm : string ➜ A formatted combination of the year and term
- Subject : string ➜ 2-4 letter subject code for the course; ex: HIST for History, CS for Computer Science, etc.
- Number : number ➜ 1-3 digit course number
- Description : string ➜ Short catalog description for the course
- Credit Hours : string ➜ Course credit hours, formatted as a string
- Section Info : string | empty ➜ Course section specific information
- Degree Attributes : string | empty ➜ Fulfillment of general education credit requirements

Using the Course Catalog Dataset in Python

The dataset can be loaded using the pandas library in Python:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("https://waf.cs.illinois.edu/discovery/course-catalog.csv")
df

	Year	Term	YearTerm	Subject	Number	Name	Description	Credit Hours	Section Info	Degree Attributes
0	2019	Fall	2019-fa	AAS	100	Intro Asian American Studies	Interdisciplinary introduction to the basic co...	3 hours.	NaN	Social & Beh Sci - Soc Sci, and Cultural Studi...
1	2019	Fall	2019-fa	AAS	105	Introduction to Arab American Studies	Interdisciplinary introduction to the basic co...	3 hours.	NaN	Cultural Studies - US Minority course.
2	2019	Fall	2019-fa	AAS	120	Intro to Asian Am Pop Culture	Introductory understanding of the way U.S. pop...	3 hours.	NaN	Cultural Studies - US Minority course.
3	2019	Fall	2019-fa	AAS	199	Undergraduate Open Seminar	May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours.	1 TO 5 hours.	NaN	NaN
4	2019	Fall	2019-fa	AAS	200	U.S. Race and Empire	Invites students to examine histories and narr...	3 hours.	Same as LLS 200.	Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies...
...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
8584	2019	Fall	2019-fa	ZULU	202	Elementary Zulu II	Continuation of ZULU 201 with introduction of ...	5 hours.	Same as AFST 252. Participation in the languag...	NaN
8585	2019	Fall	2019-fa	ZULU	403	Intermediate Zulu I	Survey of more advanced grammar; emphasis on i...	4 hours.	NaN	NaN
8586	2019	Fall	2019-fa	ZULU	404	Intermediate Zulu II	Continuation of ZULU 403; emphasis on increasi...	4 hours.	NaN	NaN
8587	2019	Fall	2019-fa	ZULU	405	Advanced Zulu I	Third year Zulu with emphasis on conversationa...	3 hours.	NaN	NaN
8588	2019	Fall	2019-fa	ZULU	406	Advanced Zulu II	Continuation of Zulu 405 with increased emphas...	3 hours.	NaN	NaN

The full Course Catalog dataset stored in a DataFrame (8,589 rows).

Pages Using the Course Catalog Dataset

Learn Page: Row Selection with DataFrames