3. Understanding Your Search Results

   The search box is repeated at the top of your results pages. The total number of courses found and the current number being shown appears below. Navigation links to go to the next or previous 10 results are located at the bottom of each results page.

   Tip: The maximum number of courses returned based on keywords is 100. Narrow your search by using more keywords or by selecting a particular faculty or department.

   Try these first
   If one of your search keywords matches the name of a faculty or a department but you have not selected it using the pulldown menus, the top of your search results page will have a section called "Try these first." The left column lists the related faculties while related departments are shown on the right.

   In the example search for "finance," the majority of courses on this topic are in the department "Accounting and Finance" but the word finance does not actually appear in either their course titles or descriptions. In order to view these courses, you must click on the department link.

   Order of results
   Courses for the Calendar search are sorted in the same order used by the paper publication:

   1. Alphabetically by faculty
        2. Alphabetically by department within that faculty
             3. Course number

   A different header colour is used to distinguish graduate courses from undergraduate courses.

   Tip: Courses accepted for credit at both the undergraduate and graduate levels are listed under their originating faculty but are marked in the colour code for Graduate Studies.

   Layout of the courses
   Each course result on your list is made up of two parts, the header and the description.

   Header
   Starting in the left corner on the first line is the course number, the course title and the number of credit hours. The second line gives the corresponding faculty and the department.

   The faculty and the department link to the general information for these units. The credit hours link to a detailed identification key that includes an explanation of the course numbers.

   Description
   Any course number referred to in the description acts as a link to that course. Click on the number in order to immediately view it. Courses not highlighted or linked are no longer offered.

   If you searched for a specific course number, at the end of your results you see the link "any courses with xxx.xxx in their description." Click on this link for courses that include your course number somewhere in their description.

   Course results that do not match your exact search keywords
   The Faculty of Arts has added a number of hidden keywords to all of its departmental courses in order to facilitate your searches. These keywords serve to establish a relationship between your actual search terms and the concept you are looking for.

   For example, your search for the term "aboriginal" produces Arts courses that contain the term "native" but not nessarily "aboriginal." In this case, the Calendar knows that a connection exists between courses that describe native studies and courses dealing with aboriginal issues.

   
   

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