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What is DARwin? UIC uses DARS, the Degree Audit Reporting System, a computer program designed to enhance the student advising process by producing individualized degree audits for students. DARS was developed by Miami University of Ohio and has been licensed to over 150 institutions. The new generation of DARS is DARwin, the windows/client server version of DARS. DARwin is a flexible system that produces individualized comprehensive reports reflecting a student’s academic progress toward the degree. DARwin compares a student’s course work, both UIC and transfer, with the requirements of an academic degree program and prepares a comprehensive report, or audit, which details the student’s progress toward meeting those requirements. Transfer courses are articulated in DARwin, using either one-to-one course equivalencies between transfer courses and UIC courses or by using a pseudoname matching the course to a requirement on the audit. Using these articulations, the transfer courses are also matched to specific degree requirements and used in degree hours and GPA calculations. In addition, the “what-if” feature allows audits to be run for a degree program and/or catalog year different than the student’s declared program to see how courses would fit into that major. DARwin is not an official transcript. It is an internal document to assist students and advisors on degree requirements.
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send any comments or questions to DARS-staff@uic.edu
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