Unify API Documentation

Accessing Unify from your web applications is easy like Sunday morning! We have three interfaces that you'll be interested in learning about.

Report - Displays course listings suitable for inclusion in a school's bulletin.
Filtered - For more specific, searchable listings.
Bulletin Text - For non-course information (such as departmental contact information and requirements).

Report

The report interface is located at the following url:
http://www.college.columbia.edu/unify/getApi/report.php
Variables passed to this url in the form of an http get statement instruct Unify in how to present departmental listings. For example, to retrieve Columbia College formatted course listings for the History Department, one would call upon the following url:
http://www.college.columbia.edu/unify/getApi/report.php?school=CC&departmentVar=HIST&version=online&displayScheduling=Y&displayEmptyBulletinSections=N&header=www.college.columbia.edu/unify/headerCC.html&footer=www.college.columbia.edu/unify/footerCC.html
Note that variables passed to the search/filter interface are specified as name/value pairs of the form:
name=value
and separated by ampersands, &.

In passing variables to the form dynamically, either a put or get may be as the moethod of an html form. Values may be left unspecified.

Report Variables

Variable

Description

school

The school variable specifies the version of the course listings, bulletin section headings, and sectioning information to be returned. Each school's course listings are formatted differently. Each school's course listings are organized beneath different bulletin section headings. Each school's sectioning informations has a unique appearance. Possible values for this variable include the following:


Value		Meaning

CC		Columbia College
CE		School of Continuing Education
EN		School of Engineering & Applied Science
GS		School of General Studies
BC		Barnard College
GSAS		Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

departmentVar

The departmentVar specifies should only courses belonging to given academic department should be returned. The following values may be used:


Value		Meaning

ACAT		Academic Technologies (Barnard)
AFAM		African-American Studies
AFSB		Africana Studies (Barnard)
AMST		American Studies
AMSB		American Studies (Barnard)
ANAT		Anatomy and Cell Biology
ANCS		Ancient Studies
ANCB		Ancient Studies (Barnard)
ANTH		Anthropology
ANTB		Anthropology (Barnard)
APAM		Applied Physics and Applied Math
ARCY		Archaeology
ARCH		Architecture
ARCB		Architecture (Barnard)
ARPL		Architecture and Planning
ARHB		Art History (Barnard)
AHAR		Art History and Archaeology
ASAM		Asian American Studies
ASMB		Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Barnard)
ASTR		Astronomy
ATPS		Atmospheric and Planetary Science
BRND		Barnard
BLIB		Barnard Leadership Initiative Program
BCHM		Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
BIOS		Biological Sciences
BIOB		Biological Sciences (Barnard)
CBME		Biomedical Engineering
MEDI		Biomedical Informatics
BIPH		Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
BIST		Biostatistics
BTEC		Biotechnology
BUDA		Buddhist Studies
BUSI		Business
CMBS		Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies
CSPB		Centennial Scholars Program (Barnard)
CEAC		Chemical Engineering
CHPH		Chemical Physics
CHEM		Chemistry
CHMB		Chemistry (Barnard)
CEEM		Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
CLST		Classical Studies
CLAS		Classics
CLSB		Classics (Barnard)
CLMS		Climate and Society (through DEES, Earth Institute, and SIPA)
COLM		Colloquium
COLL		Columbia College
CC		Columbia College Unify Administrators
COMM		Communications
CSER		Comparative Ethnic Studies
COLB		Comparative Literature (Barnard)
CMPL		Comparative Literature And Society
CMEN		Computer Engineering Program
COMS		Computer Science
COSB		Computer Science (Barnard)
CBIO		Conservation Biology
COCI		Contemporary Civilization and Literature Humanities
CORE		Core Curriculum
WPGS		Creative Writing
MODA		Critical Studies in Modern Art
DANB		Dance (Barnard)
DESC		Dental Sciences
THEA	Drama and Theatre Arts
EAEE	Earth and Environmental Engineering (SEAS)
EESC	Earth and Environmental Sciences
EESJ	Earth and Environmental Sciences Journalism
EALC	East Asian Languages and Cultures
EEEB	Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
ECHB	Economic History (Barnard)
ECON	Economics
ECOB	Economics (Barnard)
ECMB	Economics and Mathematics (Barnard)
EDUC	Education
EDNB	Education (Barnard)
ELEN	Electrical Engineering
ENCL	English & Comparative Literature
ENGB	English (Barnard)
AMLP	English as a Second Language
ENBB	Environmental Biology (Barnard)
EHSC	Environmental Health Sciences
ENSB	Environmental Science (Barnard)
EPID	Epidemiology
FILM	Film
FILB	Film Studies (Barnard)
FYSB	First-Year Seminar (Barnard)
FASB	Foreign Area Studies (Barnard)
FLR	Foreign Language Requirement
FRNB	French (Barnard)
FFPS	French and Francophone Studies
FRRP	French and Romance Philology
FRCS	French Cultural Studies
SEAS	Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science Bulletin
FUND	Fundraising
GEST	General Studies
GS	General Studies Unify Administrators
GEND	Genetics and Development
GRMB	German (Barnard)
GERL	Germanic Languages
GSAS	Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
HIST	History
HSTB	History (Barnard)
HPSC	History and Philosophy of Science
HUMR	Human Rights
HRSB	Human Rights Studies (Barnard)
IEOR	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
ICLS	Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
ARAF	Institute for Research in African-American Studies
INAF	International and Public Affairs
ITAL	Italian
ITLB	Italian (Barnard)
JAPN	Japanese Pedagogy
JAZZ	Jazz Studies
JWST	Jewish Studies
JESB	Jewish Studies (Barnard)
LRC	Language Resource Center
LATS	Latino Studies
LBRL	Liberal Studies
LING	Linguistics
MSOM	Management Science
MSAE	Materials Science and Engineering
MSE	Materials Science/Solid-State Science an
MSSS	Mathematical Structures for Environmental and Social Sciences
MATH	Mathematics
MAFN	Mathematics with Specialization in Mathematics of Finance
MECE	Mechanical Engineering
MRSB	Medieval and Renaissance Studies
MICR	Microbiology
MELC	Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
MUSA	Museum Anthropology
MUSI	Music
DMA	Musical Composition
NEUR	Neurobiology and Behavior
NEUB	Neuroscience and Behavior (Barnard)
NUTR	Nutrition
OPRE	Operations Research
PATH	Pathology
PHAR	Pharmacology
PHPH	Philosophical Foundations of Physics
PHIL	Philosophy
PHLB	Philosophy (Barnard)
PEDB	Physical Education (Barnard)
PHED	Physical Education and Intercollegiate Athletics
PHYS	Physics
PHYB	Physics and Astronomy (Barnard)
PHYG	Physiology
POLS	Political Science
PLSB	Political Science (Barnard)
PROB	Provost (Barnard)
PSYC	Psychology
PSYB	Psychology (Barnard)
PPC	Public Policy
QMSS	Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
EARS	Regional Studies: East Asia
RHD	Reid Hall Paris Programs
RELI	Religion
RELB	Religion (Barnard)
RELJ	Religion and Journalism
RUST	Russian Studies
RERS	Russiona, Eurasian, and East European Regional Studies
DVSP	School of Continuing Education
SCPB	Science and Public Policy (Barnard)
SCTS	Science, Technology, and Society
ENGI	SEAS Administration
SLAB	Slavic (Barnard)
SLCU	Slavic Cultures
SLAL	Slavic Languages
SOCW	Social Work
SOCI	Sociology
SOCB	Sociology (Barnard)
SOSC	Sociomedical Sciences
SPNB	Spanish and Latin American Cultures (Barnard)
SPPO	Spanish and Portuguese
MATS	Statistics
STAT	Statistics
STAB	Statistics (Barnard)
SUDV	Sustainable Development (through SIPA and DIPA)
TMGT	Technology Management
THEB	Theatre (Barnard)
TRAN	Training
URPL	Urban Planning
UBST	Urban Studies
VIAR	Visual Arts
VART	Visual Arts
WMST	Women's and Gender Studies
WSTB	Women's Studies (Barnard)
WRIT	Writing
YIDD	Yiddish Studies

version

The version variable specifies whether to present course listings using a school's "online" or "printed" template. Slight differences such as whether to present instructor's within the course description often times exist between the online and printed versions.


Value		Meaning

online		Online Course Listings Presentation
printed		Printed Bulletin Course Listings Presentation

courseType

The courseType variable allows one to specify whether to return courses offered for credit or offered for auditing.


Value		Meaning

Credit		Display Courses Offered For Credit
Audit		Display Courses Offered For Auditing

If multiple values are to be specified, separate them with a comma.

displayNotOffered

The displayNotOffered variable determines whether courses tagged as not offered in a given acedemic year are to be displayed among course listings. If the variable is given the value of "N" (minus the quotes), courses tagges an not offered are not presented.

displayScheduling

The displayScheduling variable determines whether course section/scheduling information is to be displayed beneath course listings.


Value		Meaning

Y		Display Section/Scheduling Information
N		Don't Display Section/Scheduling Information

displayEmptyBulletinSections

The displayEmptyBulletinSections variable determines to display bulletin sections if they contain no course listings.


Value		Meaning

Y		Display Empty Bulletin Sections
N		Don't Display Empty Bulletin Sections

header

The header variable specifies the url of a file containing all the html that is to precede the course listings returned by the report interface. (e.g. stylesheets, document title, layout, etc.) The header url is not prefixed by an "http://" which is assumed. The url can be to any valid, world readable location.

footer

The footer variable specifies the url of a file containing all the html that is to follow the course listings returned by the report interface. (e.g. stylesheets, document title, layout, etc.) The footer url is not prefixed by an "http://" which is assumed. The url can be to any valid, world readable location.

Filtered

Unify permits branded and filtered versions of the course listings and sectioning information that it stores and manages.

Access to this feature is through an http interface. By calling upon a certain url and passing this url various combinations of variables, one can have Unify return appropriately branded and filtered course information.

The search/filter interface is located at the following url:
http://www.college.columbia.edu/unify/getApi/bulletinSearch.php
Variables passed to this url in the form of an http get statement instruct Unify in how to present and filter the information. For example, to retrieve Columbia College formatted course listings for the History Department, one would call upon the following url:
http://www.college.columbia.edu/unify/getApi/bulletinSearch.php?school=CC&departmentVar=HIST
Note that variables passed to the search/filter interface are specified as name/value pairs of the form:
name=value
and separated by ampersands, &.

In passing variables to the form dynamically, either a put or get may be as the moethod of an html form. Values may be left unspecified.

Filter Variables

Variable

Description

school

The school variable specifies the version of the course listings and sectioning information to be returned. Each school's course listings and associated sectioning information varies. Possible values for this variable include the following:


Value		Meaning

CC		Columbia College
CE		School of Continuing Education
EN		School of Engineering & Applied Science
GS		School of General Studies
BC		Barnard College
GSAS		Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
XML		An XML Formatted Feed of Course & Class Sectioning Information

courseType

The courseType variable allows one to specify whether to return courses offered for credit or offered for auditing.


Value		Meaning

Credit		Display Courses Offered For Credit
Audit		Display Courses Offered For Auditing

If multiple values are to be specified, separate them with a comma.

departmentVar

The departmentVar specifies should only courses belonging to given academic department should be returned. The following values may be used:


Value		Meaning

ACAT		Academic Technologies (Barnard)
AFAM		African-American Studies
AFSB		Africana Studies (Barnard)
AMST		American Studies
AMSB		American Studies (Barnard)
ANAT		Anatomy and Cell Biology
ANCS		Ancient Studies
ANCB		Ancient Studies (Barnard)
ANTH		Anthropology
ANTB		Anthropology (Barnard)
APAM		Applied Physics and Applied Math
ARCY		Archaeology
ARCH		Architecture
ARCB		Architecture (Barnard)
ARPL		Architecture and Planning
ARHB		Art History (Barnard)
AHAR		Art History and Archaeology
ASAM		Asian American Studies
ASMB		Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Barnard)
ASTR		Astronomy
ATPS		Atmospheric and Planetary Science
BRND		Barnard
BLIB		Barnard Leadership Initiative Program
BCHM		Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
BIOS		Biological Sciences
BIOB		Biological Sciences (Barnard)
CBME		Biomedical Engineering
MEDI		Biomedical Informatics
BIPH		Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
BIST		Biostatistics
BTEC		Biotechnology
BUDA		Buddhist Studies
BUSI		Business
CMBS		Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies
CSPB		Centennial Scholars Program (Barnard)
CEAC		Chemical Engineering
CHPH		Chemical Physics
CHEM		Chemistry
CHMB		Chemistry (Barnard)
CEEM		Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
CLST		Classical Studies
CLAS		Classics
CLSB		Classics (Barnard)
CLMS		Climate and Society (through DEES, Earth Institute, and SIPA)
COLM		Colloquium
COLL		Columbia College
CC		Columbia College Unify Administrators
COMM		Communications
CSER		Comparative Ethnic Studies
COLB		Comparative Literature (Barnard)
CMPL		Comparative Literature And Society
CMEN		Computer Engineering Program
COMS		Computer Science
COSB		Computer Science (Barnard)
CBIO		Conservation Biology
COCI		Contemporary Civilization and Literature Humanities
CORE		Core Curriculum
WPGS		Creative Writing
MODA		Critical Studies in Modern Art
DANB		Dance (Barnard)
DESC		Dental Sciences
THEA	Drama and Theatre Arts
EAEE	Earth and Environmental Engineering (SEAS)
EESC	Earth and Environmental Sciences
EESJ	Earth and Environmental Sciences Journalism
EALC	East Asian Languages and Cultures
EEEB	Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
ECHB	Economic History (Barnard)
ECON	Economics
ECOB	Economics (Barnard)
ECMB	Economics and Mathematics (Barnard)
EDUC	Education
EDNB	Education (Barnard)
ELEN	Electrical Engineering
ENCL	English & Comparative Literature
ENGB	English (Barnard)
AMLP	English as a Second Language
ENBB	Environmental Biology (Barnard)
EHSC	Environmental Health Sciences
ENSB	Environmental Science (Barnard)
EPID	Epidemiology
FILM	Film
FILB	Film Studies (Barnard)
FYSB	First-Year Seminar (Barnard)
FASB	Foreign Area Studies (Barnard)
FLR	Foreign Language Requirement
FRNB	French (Barnard)
FFPS	French and Francophone Studies
FRRP	French and Romance Philology
FRCS	French Cultural Studies
SEAS	Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science Bulletin
FUND	Fundraising
GEST	General Studies
GS	General Studies Unify Administrators
GEND	Genetics and Development
GRMB	German (Barnard)
GERL	Germanic Languages
GSAS	Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
HIST	History
HSTB	History (Barnard)
HPSC	History and Philosophy of Science
HUMR	Human Rights
HRSB	Human Rights Studies (Barnard)
IEOR	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
ICLS	Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
ARAF	Institute for Research in African-American Studies
INAF	International and Public Affairs
ITAL	Italian
ITLB	Italian (Barnard)
JAPN	Japanese Pedagogy
JAZZ	Jazz Studies
JWST	Jewish Studies
JESB	Jewish Studies (Barnard)
LRC	Language Resource Center
LATS	Latino Studies
LBRL	Liberal Studies
LING	Linguistics
MSOM	Management Science
MSAE	Materials Science and Engineering
MSE	Materials Science/Solid-State Science an
MSSS	Mathematical Structures for Environmental and Social Sciences
MATH	Mathematics
MAFN	Mathematics with Specialization in Mathematics of Finance
MECE	Mechanical Engineering
MRSB	Medieval and Renaissance Studies
MICR	Microbiology
MELC	Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
MUSA	Museum Anthropology
MUSI	Music
DMA	Musical Composition
NEUR	Neurobiology and Behavior
NEUB	Neuroscience and Behavior (Barnard)
NUTR	Nutrition
OPRE	Operations Research
PATH	Pathology
PHAR	Pharmacology
PHPH	Philosophical Foundations of Physics
PHIL	Philosophy
PHLB	Philosophy (Barnard)
PEDB	Physical Education (Barnard)
PHED	Physical Education and Intercollegiate Athletics
PHYS	Physics
PHYB	Physics and Astronomy (Barnard)
PHYG	Physiology
POLS	Political Science
PLSB	Political Science (Barnard)
PROB	Provost (Barnard)
PSYC	Psychology
PSYB	Psychology (Barnard)
PPC	Public Policy
QMSS	Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
EARS	Regional Studies: East Asia
RHD	Reid Hall Paris Programs
RELI	Religion
RELB	Religion (Barnard)
RELJ	Religion and Journalism
RUST	Russian Studies
RERS	Russiona, Eurasian, and East European Regional Studies
DVSP	School of Continuing Education
SCPB	Science and Public Policy (Barnard)
SCTS	Science, Technology, and Society
ENGI	SEAS Administration
SLAB	Slavic (Barnard)
SLCU	Slavic Cultures
SLAL	Slavic Languages
SOCW	Social Work
SOCI	Sociology
SOCB	Sociology (Barnard)
SOSC	Sociomedical Sciences
SPNB	Spanish and Latin American Cultures (Barnard)
SPPO	Spanish and Portuguese
MATS	Statistics
STAT	Statistics
STAB	Statistics (Barnard)
SUDV	Sustainable Development (through SIPA and DIPA)
TMGT	Technology Management
THEB	Theatre (Barnard)
TRAN	Training
URPL	Urban Planning
UBST	Urban Studies
VIAR	Visual Arts
VART	Visual Arts
WMST	Women's and Gender Studies
WSTB	Women's Studies (Barnard)
WRIT	Writing
YIDD	Yiddish Studies

subjectVar

The subjectVar variable specifies that only those courses associated with a given subject area may be returned by the filter. Note that subject areas span across academic departments. The following values are permissible:


Value		Meaning

ACT		Acting
AUAF		African American Studies
AFAS		African American Studies
AFCV		African Civilization
AUA		African Civilization
AFRS		Africana Studies
AFTH		Africana Studies/Theatre
AUAS		American Studies
AMST		American Studies
AMHS		American Studies - History
ANAT		Anatomy
ANCS		Ancient Studies
ANTH		Anthropology
AUAN		Anthropology
AUEB		Anthropology - Environmental Biology
ANEB		Anthropology - Environmental Biology
ANHS		Anthropology - History
APCH		Applied Chemistry
CHAP		Applied Chemistry - Applied Physics - Chemical Engineering
APMA		Applied Mathematics
AMCS		Applied Mathematics/Computer Science
APPH		Applied Physics
APAM		Applied Physics & Applied Math
APBM		Applied Physics - Biomedical Engineering
ACLG		Archaeology
ARCH		Architecture
AUAH		Art History
AHIS		Art History
AHCL		Art History - Comparative Literature
AHHS		Art History - History
AHLW		Art History - Law
AHWS		Art History-Women's Studies
AUAA		Asian American
ASAM		Asian American
ASCV		Asian Civilizations
ASCE		Asian Civilizations - East Asian
AUAE		Asian Civilizations - East Asian
AUAM		Asian Civilizations - Middle East
ASCM		Asian Civilizations - Middle East
AHUM		Asian Humanities
AUHA		Asian Humanities
AHMM		Asian Humanities - Music
AUHM		Asian Humanities - Music
ASST		Asian Studies
ASRL		Asian Studies-Religion
ASTR		Astronomy
AUAT		Astronomy
ASPH		Astronomy - Physics
ASPG		Astronomy, Physics And Geology
AZER		Azeri
BLIC		Barnard Leadership Initiative
BENG		Bengali
BCHM		Biochemistry
CHBC		Biochemistry
AUBI		Biology
BIOL		Biology
BIOC		Biology - Chemistry
BMEN		Biomedical Engineering
BMEE		Biomedical Engineering - Electrical Engineering
BMEB		Biomedical Engineering - Electrical Engineering - Biology
BMCH		Biomedical Engineering/Chemical Engineering
BINF	Biomedical Informatics
BSPH	Biosphere2
BIST	Biostatistics
BIES	Biostatistics-Epidemiolgy-Statistics
BIOT	Biotechnology
BULG	Bulgarian
BUSI	Business
BUEC	Business Economics
CANT	Cantonese
CATL	Catalan
AUCT	Catalan
CMBS	Cellular, Molecular, & Biophysical
CTSC	Centennial Scholars
CHEN	Chemical Engineering
CHEE	Chemical Engineering - Earth & Environmental Engineering
CHME	Chemical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
CHEM	Chemistry
CHNS	Chinese
CIEN	Civil Engineering
CIEE	Civil Engineering and Earth and Environmental Engineering
CIMS	Civil-material Sci Engineering
AUCC	Classical Civilization
CLCV	Classical Civilization
CLHS	Classical History
CLLT	Classical Literature
AUCL	Classical Literature
CLPH	Classical Philology
CLAH	Classics-Art History
CLMS	Climate and Society
COLL	Colloquium
COMM	Communications
CSER	Comparative Ethnic Studies
CPLT	Comparative Literature
CLCZ	Comparative Literature - Czechoslovakian
CLEA	Comparative Literature - East Asian
AUC	Comparative Literature - English
AUCE	Comparative Literature - English
CLEN	Comparative Literature - English
CLFR	Comparative Literature - French
CLGR	Comparative Literature - German
CLHI	Comparative Literature - History
CLIA	Comparative Literature - Italian
AULC	Comparative Literature - Linguistics
CLLN	Comparative Literature - Linguistics
AUCM	Comparative Literature - Middle Eastern
CLME	Comparative Literature - Middle Eastern
CLPL	Comparative Literature - Polish
CLPS	Comparative Literature - Political Science
CLRS	Comparative Literature - Russian
CRLS	Comparative Literature - Russian
CLSP	Comparative Literature - Spanish
AUCS	Comparative Literature - Swedish
CLSW	Comparative Literature - Swedish
CLYD	Comparative Literature - Yiddish
AUSL	Comparative Literature and Society
CPLS	Comparative Literature and Society
CLSL	Comparative Literature Slavic
CLSS	Comparative Literature South Slavic
CPSL	Comparative Literature-Slavic
COMS	Computer Science
CSEE	Computer Science - Electrical Engineering
CBMF	Computer Science-Biomedical Engineering-Medical Informatics
CSPH	Computing Science - Philosophy
COCI	Contemporary Civilization
CREA	Creative Writing
CZCH	Czech
AUDN	Dance
DNCE	Dance
DNSC	Dental Sciences
DIR	Directing
DISS	Dissertation Defense
CRIT	Dramaturgy
DTCH	Dutch
EAEE	Earth & Enviornmental Engineering
ECIA	Earth & Environmental Engineering - Civil Engineeering - SIP
EESC	Earth & Environmental Sciences
EAIA	Earth and Environmental Engineering/SIPA
EAAS	East Asian
AUEA	East Asian
EAHI	East Asian - History
EASO	East Asian - Sociology
EEEB	Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
ECON	Economics
AUEC	Economics
ECHS	Economics - History
ECPH	Economics - Philosophy
EDUC	Education
ELEN	Electrical Engineering
EEBM	Electrical Engineering - Biomedical Engineering
EECS	Electrical Engineering - Computer Science
ECBM	Electrical Engineering - Computer Science - Biomedical Engin
EEHS	Electrical Engineering - History
EEJR	Electrical Engineering - Journalism
EEME	Electrical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
ENGI	Engineering
ENME	Engineering Mechanics
ENGL	English
AUEN	English
AMLP	English
ENHS	English - History
ENRE	English - Religion
ENTH	English - Theatre
AUET	English - Theatre
ENTA	English - Theatre Arts
ENWS	English - Women's Studies
ENVB	Environmental Biology
EVSC	Environmental Sciences - Barnard
EXSC	Exchange Scholar
EXRS	Extended Residence
FICT	Fiction
FLLW	File - Law
FILM	Film
AUFL	Film
AUFN	Finnish
FINN	Finnish
FYSB	First Year Seminar - Barnard
FREN	French
FRSO	French - Sociology
FUND	Fundraising
GEND	Genetics And Development
GEOR	Georgian
GERM	German
AUGR	German
GRAP	Graphics
GREK	Greek
HAUS	Hausa
HEPR	Health Professions
AUHS	History
HIST	History
HPSC	History & Philosophy of Science
AUHE	History - East Asian
HSEA	History - East Asian
HIJP	History - Japan
AUMH	History - Middle East
HSME	History - Middle East
HSSL	History - Slavic
HSSO	History - Sociology
HSUS	History - Urban Studies
HSLW	History-Law
HSRS	History-Religion
HSPS	History: Political Science
HOWD	Howard
HRTS	Human Rights
HUMA	Humanities
AUHN	Hungarian
HNGR	Hungarian
IMMU	Immunology
INDO	Indonesian
IEME	Industrial Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
IEOR	Industrial Engineering - Operations Research
INSM	Interdepartmental Seminars
INAF	International Affairs
IALW	International Affairs - Law
ITAL	Italian
JPNS	Japanese
JAZZ	Jass Studies
JOUR	Journalism
KANN	Kannada
KORN	Korean
KYRG	Kyrgyz
LATN	Latin
AULS	Latino Studies
LATS	Latino Studies
LAW	Law
LWPH	Law - Philosophy
LWPS	Law - Political Science
LING	Linguistics
LITH	Lithuanian
MGMT	Management
MSIE	Mangement Science - IEOR
MSAE	Materials Science & Engineering
MTPH	Math-physics
MATH	Mathematics
MTFC	Matriculation And Facilities
MEBM	Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering
MECE	Mechanical Engineering
MINF	Medical Informatics
MEDR	Medieval and Renaissance Studies
MICR	Microbiology
AUME	Middle East
MDES	Middle East
MEMU	Middle East-Music
GRKM	Modern Greek
MUSI	Music
AUMS	Music
MUPH	Music - Philosophy
MSPS	Music - Psychology
MURU	Music-Russian
NBHV	Neurobiology And Behavior
NSBV	Neuroscience and Behavior
NFIC	Nonfiction
NUTR	Nutrition
OSTR	Oriental Studies - Religion
PAFS	Pan African Studies
PATH	Pathology
PEDG	Pedagogy
PHAR	Pharmacology
AUPH	Philosophy
PHIL	Philosophy
PHPS	Philosophy - Psychology
PHED	Physical Education
PHYS	Physics
PLAN	Planning
PLAY	Playwrighting
POET	Poetry
POLI	Polish
AUPS	Political Science
POLS	Political Science
PSSO	Political Science - Sociology
PORT	Portuguese
PSYC	Psychology
PUBH	Public Health
PULA	Pulaar
PUNJ	Punjabi
QMSS	Quantitative Methods - Social Sciences
AURL	Religion
RELI	Religion
AUSR	Religion - Sociology
RLSO	Religion - Sociology
RSRH	Research
RESI	Residence Unit
RMAN	Romanian
RUSS	Russian
AURS	Russian
SCNC	Science
AUSC	Science
SCPP	Science & Public Policy
SRCR	Serbocroatian
SCRB	Serbocroatian-Bosnian
SLVC	Slavic
SLCU	Slavic Cultures
SLLN	Slavic Linguistics
SLLT	Slavic Literatures
SOCW	Social Work
SOCI	Sociology
AUSO	Sociology
SOSC	Sociomedial Sciences
SOSL	South Slavic
SPAN	Spanish
SPWS	Spanish - Women's Studies
SPME	Spanish and Middle Eastern
SPCH	Speech
SGMT	Stage Management
STAT	Statistics
SIEO	Statistics - Industrial Engineering - Operations Research
SUDV	Sustainable Development
SDEV	Sustainable Development
SWHL	Swahili
SWED	Swedish
TAGA	Tagalog
TAML	Tamil
TELU	Telugu
THTR	Theatre
THEA	Theatre Arts
TIBT	Tibetan
UKRN	Ukrainian
URBS	Urban Studies
UZBK	Uzbek
VIET	Vietnamese
VART	Visual Arts
VIAR	Visual Arts
WLOF	Wolof
WMST	Women's Studies
AUWS	Women's Studies
WRIT	Writing
YIDD	Yiddish
YIVO	YIVO
ZULU	Zulu

termVar

The termVar variable instructs the filter to return only course listings and sectioning information associated with the specified term. Permissible values include the following:


Value		Meaning

x		Autumn
y		Spring
z		Summer

courseIdentifierVar

The courseIdentifierVar allows you retrieve information regarding a specific course. The value specified as a criterion to the courseIdentifierVar must be one of the following forms:

[SubjectCode][CoursePrefixCode][CourseNumber]
or
[SubjectCode][CoursePrefixCode][CourseNumber]-[SectionNumber]

For example,

HISTW1010
or
HISTW1010-001

keywordsVar

The keywordsVar performs a keyword search across all information contained within course listings and returns course listings and associated sectioning information when keywords are found. Values are not restricted. If multiple values are specified (separated by spaces), a logical "OR" is performed.

instructorVar

The instructorVar acts much as a keyword search, but restricts the filter to performing a search only amongst the names of instructors. Values are not restricted. If multiple values are specified (separated by spaces), a logical "OR" is performed.

limitVar

The limitVar specifies the maximum number of course listings to be returned by the filter. Acceptable values include any positive integer greater than 0 and less than or equal to 100. If left unspecified, the limitVar defaults to 50 listings.

courseNumberStartVar

The courseNumberStartVar specifies that the filter should only return courses whose course number is greater than or equal to courseNumberStartVar. Use this variable with the variable courseNumberEndVar to specify a range of course numbers to be returned. Acceptable values include positive integers greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 9999.

courseNumberEndVar

The courseNumberEndVar specifies that the filter should only return courses whose course number is less than or equal to courseNumberEndVar. Use this variable with the variable courseNumberStartVar to specify a range of course numbers to be returned. Acceptable values include positive integers greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 9999.

coursePointsMinVar

The coursePointsMinVar specifies that the filter should only return courses which confer a number of points greater than or equal to coursePointsMinVar. Use this variable with the variable coursePointsMaxVar to specify a range of course numbers to be returned. Acceptable values include positive decimal numbers greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 10.

coursePointsMaxVar

The coursePointsMaxVar specifies that the filter should only return courses which confer a number of points less than or equal to coursePointsMaxVar. Use this variable with the variable coursePointsMinVar to specify a range of course numbers to be returned. Acceptable values include positive decimar numbers greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 10.

beginHourVar

The beginHourVar variable specifies that the filter should only return courses who begin at or after the hour specified by beginHourVar. Use this variable with the variable endHourVar to specify a range of hours in which a course may begin. Acceptable values are positive integers greater than or equal to 0 and less than or eqaul to 23.

endHourVar

The endHourVar variable specifies that the filter should only return courses who begin at or after the hour specified by endHourVar. Use this variable with the variable beginHourVar to specify a range of hours in which a course may begin. Acceptable values are positive integers greater than or equal to 0 and less than or eqaul to 23.

populationVar

The populationVar specifies that the filter should return only those courses tagged as being offered to a given population. Acceptable values include the following:


Value		Meaning

ALP		American Language Program
AUD		Auditing Program
BIOT		Biotechnology
BCI		Business Careers Initiative
CCW		Creative Writing Center--Credit
NCW		Creative Writing Center--Noncredit
FLC		Foreign Language--Credit
FLN		Foreign Language--Noncredit
LLL		Lifelong Learners Program
MSTM		Master of Science in Technology Management
PBC		Postbaccalaureate Classics Program
EEEB		Postbaccalaureate Program in Ecology, Evolution, a
QSI		Postbaccalaureate Program in Quantitative Studies
PSY		Postbaccalaureate Psychology Program
SMP		Second-Majors Program
SSP		Special Students Program

displayNotOffered

header

The header variable specifies the url of a file containing all the html that is to precede the course listings returned by the filter interface. (e.g. stylesheets, document title, layout, etc.) The header url is not prefixed by an "http://" which is assumed. The url can be to any valid, world readable location.

footer

The footer variable specifies the url of a file containing all the html that is to follow the course listings returned by the filter interface. (e.g. stylesheets, document title, layout, etc.) The footer url is not prefixed by an "http://" which is assumed. The url can be to any valid, world readable location.

Bulletin Text

The bulletin text API is almost distressingly simple. For nearly all cases, this URL format will suffice:

http://www.college.columbia.edu/unify/bulletinText/DEPT/administrative/SCHOOL http://www.college.columbia.edu/unify/bulletinText/DEPT/undergrad/SCHOOL

Replacing DEPT with a department code and SCHOOL with a school name provides the appropriate text for each bulletin. For example, see the URLs of the Computer Science department's administrative information and requirements for a Bachelors' degree.

This text should be inserted mid-HTML page, between your school's specific header and footer. The school name is optional and defaults to 'CC'. This can be appended to any of the URLs in this documentation.

Some departments include text specific to Columbia College and to General Studies. This text can be excluded from your pages by applying the following CSS rules:

.cconly { display: none; } .gsonly { display: none; }

Some departments include text specific to the Print and Web display versions. This text can be excluded from your pages by applying the following CSS rules:

.webonly { display: none; } .printonly { display: none; }

Advanced Usage

XML output can be generated thusly:

http://www.college.columbia.edu/unify/bulletinText/DEPT/xml

For an example, see the XML for the Computer Science department.

Columbia College departments may find a PDF of this information, with the print bulletin's stylesheet, helpful:

http://www.college.columbia.edu/unify/bulletinText/DEPT/pdf

Here's our beleaguered CS department again.

If you're in the mood to pull all sections at once:

http://www.college.columbia.edu/unify/bulletinText/DEPT/all

By now, I don't have to tell you what department this is.

The "all" section can be a helpful guide for departments with non-standard section layouts (such as the administration of Columbia College). These sections must be pulled using a more complex URL.

http://www.college.columbia.edu/unify/bulletinText.php?department=DEPT&&school=CC&section=Section+Name
As a sample, here's Lit Hum.
PDF or XML output can be generated by appending &pdf=1 or &xml=1 to the end of this URL.