Naming course and topic guides:
How you name your guides affects their discoverabilty, their location on the front page, and how they are sorted in a list of guides. Please use the following format when naming a new course guide:
- In the "Guide Title" field:
- Four-letter department code and course number (from TriCo Course Catalog)
- Colon (with no space after the course number)
- Course title [try to limit to three keywords—put expanded title in description field]
- Institutional code [BMC, HC, SC] in parentheses
- And, if there's more than one iteration of the course/guide, put the semester after the institutional code.
- E.g.,
- GERM 262: European Film (HC)
- GERM 262: European Film (HC) Fall 2014
For courses listed at more than one college, include each institutional code in the parentheses.
- E.g., COML 398: Theories & Methods (HC/BMC)
For courses listed in more than one department, choose one department for the course title and then list both departments in the "Short Description."
- E.g.,
- Title: SPAN 250: Quixotic Narratives (HC)
- Short Description: Spanish / Comparative Literature 250: Quixotic Narratives (Burshatin) Spring 2012
- In the "Short Description" field:
- List the full department name(s)
- List the full course title (if different from the short title)
- Professor's name (in parentheses)
- Semester (if not already listed in the title)
- E.g.,
- English 389: England's Lost Paradise: Political Pastoral in the Works of Milton and Marvell (Riebling) Fall 2014—for a guide whose title is: ENGL 389: England's Lost Paradise (HC)
- N.B.: Assign the guide to one of two possible groups: "Current" or "Previous Semesters"; add the "Courses" guide type
Use the following format when naming a new topic guide:
- Use a short, general description and include in parentheses the applicable campus communities—e.g., 18th-Century Sources (Tri-Co)
- Assign the guide to the "Topics" group and guide type.
