The 2024-2025 edition of the Guide – the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s comprehensive course catalog – has been published and is now available!
Every year, countless members of the campus community review each page of the Guide to ensure it is accurate, polished, consistent, and easy to use. One of the primary focuses for the latest edition was making the Guide more accessible for all users; in collaboration with the Center for User Experience, the Office of the Registrar (RO) implemented a number of accessibility improvements that can be seen throughout.
Among the changes you’ll find in the 2024-2025 Guide are:
- The implementation of accessibility best practices within Lumen Programs and Structures proposals for nearly all of our academic programs, which coincided with adopting the new UW brand template;
- Interest area filters for undergraduate certificates on the “Explore UW–Madison’s Undergraduate Opportunities” page;
- Course learning outcomes (CLOs) displayed under the “View details” section for courses which have CLOs submitted in Lumen Courses (see Nursing 100 as an example); and
- The addition of “How to Get In” tables for undergraduate majors in the schools of Business, Human Ecology, and Pharmacy. Other undergraduate programs will work on this project for the future Guide cycle with the end goal of all undergraduate majors having a “How to Get In” table.
This edition is the culmination of the work that departmental and school/college representatives, academic planners, faculty, and governance bodies have been working toward all year. The RO would especially like to recognize our Guide Coordinators and Lumenaries on campus. This publication truly takes a team effort, and we wholeheartedly appreciate their meticulous review of proposals and their efforts to move proposals through the Lumen system.
“This Guide publication brings me pride for a couple of reasons, not only for the aforementioned enhancements to the catalog itself, but also because the team managed a last-minute software upgrade to reconcile some technical issues. By last minute, I mean they did this a week before we went live!” Associate Registrar for Academic Services Will Lipske says. “My sincere thanks to Anne Eckenrod, Jess Richards, and Jen Brown for their great work with Guide administration, Logan Reigstad for his inaugural year as Guide editor, and the Degree Audit Reporting System (DARS) team for implementing hundreds of curricular changes into the degree audit.”
If you’re still seeing last year’s information, you may need a hard refresh (CTRL + F5) or to clear your cache. You will know if you are looking at the most current Guide publication by reviewing the catalog year in the upper-left corner, which should read 2024-2025.