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Overview
The Brown Online Course Announcement (BOCA)
provides information on Brown courses, including course
descriptions, meeting times, and instrructor information.
Brown web publishers are encouraged to use the information
in BOCA on their web sites. This page provides an
overview of the various ways in which publishers can
link to and into the data in BOCA. (Printer
friendly version)
Link to BOCA
To get to the main BOCA webpage, use a URL in the
form:
<a href="http://boca.brown.edu">
Boca
</a>
Obtain a list of classes
for a semester
To call up a list of classes available in a department
in a given semester, use a form like this:
<form name="aosCrsList" action="http://boca.brown.edu/aoscrslist.asp"
method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="year"
value="2001" />
<input type="hidden" name="term"
value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="startCrsCode"
value="BI0000" />
<input type="submit" value="Get
Semester 1, 2002 Bio Classes" />
</form>
The resulting submit button looks like this:
The link that retrieves the same information is:
<a href="http://boca.brown.edu/aoscrslist.asp?year=2002&term=1&startCrsCode=BI0000">Semester
1, 2002 Bio Classes</a>
Obtain a list of classes taught
in a department for a given academic year
To get a listing of all the courses taught in a
department for an academic year, use the query
<form name="aosCrsList" action="http://boca.brown.edu/aoscrslist.asp"
method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="year"
value="2002">
<input type="hidden" name="term"
value=" ">
<input type="hidden" name="startCrsCode"
value="BI0000">
<input type="submit" value="Get
2002 Bio Classes">
</form>
The resulting submit button looks like this:
The corresponding link is:
<a href="http://boca.brown.edu/aoscrslist.asp?year=2002&term=&startCrsCode=BI0000">Get
2002 Bio Classes</a>
Non-Topics classes
For nontopics classes, use the following form format:
<form name="nonTopicsDet" action="http://boca.brown.edu/nontopicsdet.asp"
method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="year"
value="2002">
<input type="hidden" name="term"
value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="crsCode"
value="BI0047">
<input type="SUBMIT" value="Biology
0047 Fall 2002">
</form>
The HTML for the corresponding link looks like this:
<a href="http://boca.brown.edu/nontopicsdet.asp?year=2002&term=1&crsCode=BI0047">
Biology 0047 Fall 2002 </a>
Topics classes
For topics classes, use the following form format.
<FORM NAME="topicsDet" ACTION="http://boca.brown.edu/topicsDet.asp"
METHOD="post">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="year"
VALUE="2002">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="term"
VALUE="1">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="crsCode"
VALUE="HI0197">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="sectCode"
VALUE="S017">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="History
0197 Section 17 Fall 2002">
</FORM>
The HTML for the corresponding link looks like this:
<a href="http://boca.brown.edu/topicsDet.asp?year=2002&term=1&crsCode=HI0197&SectCode=S017">History
0197 Section 17 Fall 2002</a>
Ranges of Classes
It is also possible to search for ranges of classes,
using the gradLevel parameter:
<FORM NAME="aosCrsList" ACTION="http://boca.brown.edu/aoscrslist.asp"
METHOD="post">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="year"
VALUE="2002">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="term"
VALUE="1">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="startCrsCode"
VALUE="HI0000">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="gradLevel1"
VALUE="X">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Get
Semester 1, 2002 Undergraduate History Classes">
</FORM>
The corresponding link looks like this:
<a href="http://boca.brown.edu/aoscrslist.asp?year=2002&term=1&startCrsCode=BI0000&gradLevel1=X">Get Semester 1, 2002 Undergraduate History
Classes </a>
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