MyPlan DEGREE AUDIT REPORTING SYSTEM (DARS) HOW TO AUDIT YOUR DEGREE USING DARS IN MyPlan The Degree Audit Reporting System (DARS) produces a report that reflects academic progress toward completion of your declared or proposed major as well as progress toward an undergraduate degree. DARS shows how your transfer courses, current University of Washington courses and courses in-progress apply toward degree requirements. A Degree Audit is an internal document to be used as a tool to assist you and your adviser in planning your future coursework. A Degree Audit is not an official certification of your academic record. page 2 4 6 7 8 9 10 CONTENTS Accessing DARS Reading Your Degree Audit University Requirements General Education Requirements Areas of Knowledge Departmental Requirements Transfer-Specific Requirements 1
Accessing DARS To access DARS, log in to myuw.washington.edu and select MyPlan listed under the Quick Links. You will be prompted to sign in using your UW NetID and password. After you sign in you will arrive at the MyPlan home page. Select Audit along the top of the screen, below MyPlan. This will take you to the Audit tab of MyPlan. From this page, you have two options: 1. Audit Your Plan allows you to compare your current academic record and courses in your plan that you intend to take in the future with program requirements to give you an idea of what will be needed to complete your degree. 2. Audit Your Degree allows you to compare your current academic record and enrolled courses only to give you an idea of what will be needed to complete your degree. From the drop-down menu, you will need to select your program. Programs with the designation not admitting are not relevant for current students. 2
READING YOUR DEGREE AUDIT Selecting the downward facing arrow to the left of the name of the requirement expands that requirement. You will see that the arrow changes to upward facing, as pictured. You will see this symbol if the requirement has been successfully completed. You will see this symbol if the sub-requirement has been satisfied. 3
READING YOUR DEGREE AUDIT (CONTINUED) You will see this symbol if the sub-requirement has not been satisfied. You will see this symbol if the requirement is in-progress toward completion. A course is in-progress, which satisfies the sub-requirement. A course is in-progress, which partially satisfies the sub-requirement but does not complete it. You will see this symbol if the requirement has not been satisfied. designates courses taken at another institution, which have been accepted for credit at the University of Washington. 4
University Requirements This section lists your progress toward fulfilling the requirements that must be met in order to graduate from the University of Washington. These requirements are the same for all undergraduate students. Meeting University Requirements does not necessarily mean you have met your respective department s requirements. 5
General Education Requirements This section lists your progress toward fulfilling the requirements that must be met in order to graduate from your respective college. For example, the College of Arts and Sciences has a different set of general education requirements from the College of Engineering. Two examples are shown below. 6
Areas of Knowledge This section lists your progress toward fulfilling the University of Washington s Areas of Knowledge requirements: Visual, Literary and Performing Arts (VLPA), Individuals and Societies (I&S), and Natural World (NW). Examples from two colleges are shown. COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES COLLEGE OF THE ENVIRONMENT 7
Departmental Requirements This section lists your progress toward fulfilling department-specific major requirements. When you expand a requirement, you will see two common things: 1. Different sets of courses can fulfill the same requirements. If applicable, multiple options will be listed. In this example, the biochemistry requirement will be fulfilled after you have taken CHEM 452 and 453 or CHEM 455, 456 and 457. You do not have to take all five listed classes to meet this requirement. 2. If options are not listed, you must complete all the classes listed under each category to fulfill the requirement. 8
Transfer-Specific Information As you are looking through your Degree Audit, you may see some courses transferring as exact equivalents or for generic credit. Exact equivalents are classes for which an exact equivalent exists at the University of Washington (e.g. you took Calculus II at your community college and it transferred over as MATH 125). Generic credit classes are those that lack an equivalent at the University of Washington meaning no department on campus offers a class that matches the class you took at your previous institution. In this scenario an *XX is used (e.g. ENGL 1XX, UW 1XX, BIOL 2XX). If you feel as though a *XX class has been incorrectly assigned (i.e. You believe there is an equivalent at the UW), it s best to contact the academic department with a copy of the class s syllabus. 1. *XX credits can appear anywhere on your Degree Audit. They most often appear at the end under the General Electives heading. 2. Certain courses will only show up in your Degree Audit as their UW equivalent once the entire series has been completed. 3. *XX can still count toward General Education/ Areas of Knowledge credits. For example, a ENGL 1XX class might still count for W credit or a PHYS 1XX class might still count for Natural World (NW) credit. 9