Villanova Department of Computing Sciences

Academic Audit

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences provides a software system that we can use to produce an undergraduate academic audit -- a report that shows what courses a student has taken and how they fulfill the requirements of the program in which that student is enrolled.

Computer Science majors are welcome to request an academic audit through the department main office. An academic audit report is also created and put in the student's file for reference just before the advising period each semester.

Be aware that the academic audit is not perfect. It does not always show that certain courses fulfill certain requirements. For example, currently the academic audit interprets the writing requirements as four Writing Enriched (WE) and four Writing Intensive (WI) courses, instead of the actual requirement, which is eight WE and WI courses of which at least four are Writing Intensive. That is, in the academic audit a fifth Writing Intensive course is not shown as fulfilling a writing requirement, which it does.

Also, the academics audit does not indicate that a course fulfills part of a science sequence until all parts of the sequence are accounted for (either taken or enrolled in).

Students should bring any such discrepancy to their academic advisor's attention. Advisors should note such situations in the student's file.