University of California, Santa Barbara

UCSB Department Course Extract

Registrar extract of a department course list with sections, time/locations, instructors and concurrent courses. Private tier. Published as Swagger 2.0, 1 path, base https://api.ucsb.edu/students/private/deptcourses.

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Operations 1

GET /v1/classlist Retrieves a list of courses for a given {quarter} and list of {departements}. Each course contains information on the instructor, sections, and students enrolled. #

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Documentation

https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/department-course-extract

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OpenAPI

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsb/refs/heads/main/openapi/ucsb-department-course-extract-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

swagger: '2.0'
info:
  version: v1
  title: Registrar Department Course List API v1.0
  description: 'Course List information for a given department. The information is from the Office of
    the Registrar.



    The BasicAuth header is a base64-encoded(ucsbNetId:password) combination. This should be the ucsbNetId/password
    combination that was previously used to access the WebExtracts website.



    When requesting a list of departments information, please try to keep the number of departments per
    request to 5 or less.'
  x-source-url: https://developer.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/openapi/deptcourses-v1.2out.api__1.yaml
  x-last-validated: '2026-08-30'
  x-operator: institution
host: api.ucsb.edu
basePath: /students/private/deptcourses
schemes:
- https
securityDefinitions:
  ucsb-api-key:
    name: ucsb-api-key
    in: header
    type: apiKey
  BasicAuth:
    type: basic
security:
- ucsb-api-key: []
- BasicAuth: []
paths:
  /v1/classlist:
    get:
      tags:
      - ClassList
      summary: "Retrieves a list of courses for a given {quarter} and list of\r\n{departements}. Each\
        \ course contains information on the \r\ninstructor, sections, and students enrolled."
      operationId: ClassList_Get
      consumes: []
      produces:
      - application/json
      - text/json
      - application/xml
      - text/xml
      parameters:
      - name: quarter
        in: query
        description: The quarter
        required: true
        type: string
      - name: departments
        in: query
        description: 'The list of 5 character department codes. Department code translations: <a href=''https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/student-record-code-lookups#/Departments/%2Flookups%2Fv1%2Fdepartments''
          target=''_blank'' rel=''noopener noreferror''>Student Record Code Lookups API</a>.'
        required: true
        type: array
        items:
          type: string
        collectionFormat: multi
      - name: ucsb-api-version
        in: header
        description: The requested API version
        required: false
        type: string
        default: '1.0'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          schema:
            type: array
            items:
              $ref: '#/definitions/Department'
definitions:
  Department:
    type: object
    properties:
      deptCode:
        type: string
      courses:
        type: array
        items:
          $ref: '#/definitions/Course'
  Course:
    type: object
    properties:
      courseID:
        type: string
      courseTitle:
        type: string
      courseDescription:
        type: string
      prerequisiteText:
        type: string
      crossListedCourses:
        type: array
        items:
          type: string
      sections:
        type: array
        items:
          $ref: '#/definitions/Section'
  Section:
    type: object
    properties:
      enrollCode:
        type: string
      sectionNumber:
        type: string
      maxEnroll:
        type: string
      enrolledTotal:
        type: string
      sessionNumber:
        type: string
      classFull:
        type: string
      closedClass:
        type: string
      cancelledCourse:
        type: string
      courseType:
        type: string
      unitsFixed:
        type: string
      unitsVarHigh:
        type: string
      unitsVarLow:
        type: string
      timeLocations:
        type: array
        items:
          $ref: '#/definitions/TimeLocation'
      instructors:
        type: array
        items:
          $ref: '#/definitions/Instructor'
      concurrentCourses:
        type: array
        items:
          $ref: '#/definitions/ConcurrentCourse'
      students:
        type: array
        items:
          $ref: '#/definitions/Student'
  TimeLocation:
    type: object
    properties:
      days:
        type: string
      beginTime:
        type: string
      endTime:
        type: string
      buildingRoom:
        type: string
      roomCapacity:
        type: string
  Instructor:
    type: object
    properties:
      firstName:
        type: string
      lastName:
        type: string
      pronounCode:
        type: string
      name:
        type: string
      employeeNumber:
        type: string
      isPpsEmployeeNumber:
        type: boolean
        readOnly: true
      isUcPathEmployeeNumber:
        type: boolean
        readOnly: true
      titleCode:
        type: string
      instructorFunction:
        type: string
      instructorFunctionDescription:
        type: string
  ConcurrentCourse:
    type: object
    properties:
      concurrentCourseNumber:
        type: string
      concurrentSectionNumber:
        type: string
      concurrentSessionNumber:
        type: string
  Student:
    type: object
    properties:
      lastName:
        type: string
      firstName:
        type: string
      middleName:
        type: string
      permNumber:
        type: string
      emailAddress:
        type: string
      courseStatus:
        type: string