Decision tree used by a curriculum administrator to assess external courses for the Lund C program¶

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Description¶

Based on correspondence with the former program director, the authors constructed a decision tree (Fig. 1) capturing how external courses are assessed for the Lund University Information and Communication Engineering (C) program. "Firstly, the program director decides whether a course is within the scope of the C program, or counted as external." External courses are capped at 15 ECTS; in-scope courses are matched to LU equivalents, assigned a level (G1/G2/A), and possibly counted toward one of five specialization tracks. Partial overlap is credited proportionally: "overlap below 20% (less than 1.5 ECTS) is disregarded; overlap between 20% and 66.7% warrants 2–5 ECTS; and overlap exceeding 66.7% (more than 5 ECTS) is treated as full equivalence." CourseGraph targets the content-overlap decisions in this tree.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

A curriculum administrator's decision process and program metadata (levels, specialization tracks) to ground the assessment rules

Constraints¶

Automatic assignment of course level falls outside the scope of this paper

Target Learners¶

exchange students in the Lund University C program

Learning Goals¶

crediting external courses appropriately toward degree requirements

Claims¶

In a worked example from real Erasmus+ decisions, some of CourseGraph's nearest-neighbor course mappings matched the program director's and others did not, one plausibly because it ignores differences in learning methods [+W]

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

Arthur Nijdam, Paul Stankovski Wagner, Sara Ramezanian. (2026). CourseGraph: Finding overlaps and differences in Computer Science courses across universities. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05910

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`title`	`Decision tree used by a curriculum administrator to assess external courses for the Lund C program`
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