University of Pennsylvania [PCR] Department Reviews API

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  title: Penn Courses API Documentation [Accounts] User [Accounts] User [PCR] Department Reviews API
  version: ''
  description: '

    # Introduction

    Penn Courses ([GitHub](https://github.com/pennlabs/penn-courses)) is the umbrella

    categorization for [Penn Labs](https://pennlabs.org/)

    products designed to help students navigate the course registration process. It currently

    includes three products, each with their own API documented on this page:

    Penn Course Alert, Penn Course Plan, and Penn Course Review.


    See `Penn Labs Notion > Penn Courses` for more details on each of our (currently) three apps.


    For instructions on how to maintain this documentation while writing code,

    see the comments in `backend/PennCourses/docs_settings.py` (it is easy, and will be helpful

    for maintaining Labs knowledge in spite of our high member turnover rate).


    See our [GitHub](https://github.com/pennlabs/penn-courses) repo for instructions on

    installation, running in development, and loading in course data for development. Visit

    the `/admin/doc/` route ([link](/admin/doc/)) for the backend documentation generated by Django

    (admin account required, which can be made by running

    `python manage.py createsuperuser` in terminal/CLI).


    # Unified Penn Courses

    By virtue of the fact that all Penn Courses products deal with, well, courses,

    it would make sense for all three products to share the same backend.


    We realized the necessity of a unified backend when attempting to design a new Django backend

    for Penn Course Plan. We like to live by the philosophy of keeping it

    [DRY](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don''t_repeat_yourself), and

    PCA and PCP''s data models both need to reference course and

    section information. We could have simply copied over code (a bad idea)

    or created a shared reusable Django app (a better idea) for course data,

    but each app would still need to download copies of the same data.

    Additionally, this will help us build integrations between our Courses products.


    # Authentication

    PCx user authentication is handled by platform''s Penn Labs Accounts Engine.

    See [Penn Labs Notion > Platform > The Accounts Engine](https://www.notion.so/pennlabs/The-Accounts-Engine-726ccf8875e244f4b8dbf8a8f2c97a87?pvs=4)

    for extensive documentation and links to repositories for this system. When tags or routes

    are described as requiring user authentication, they are referring to this system.


    I highly recommend the [official video course on OAuth2](https://oauth.net/2/) (by Aaron Parecki),

    then the Platform Notion docs on the "Accounts Engine" for anyone who wants to understand

    Labs authentication better. Platform is our OAuth2 "Authorization Server",

    and Django Labs Accounts is an OAuth2 client run by our Django backends (Clubs, Penn Courses, etc),

    exposing client-facing authentication routes like `penncourseplan.com/accounts/login`.

    There''s also this Wikipedia page explaining [Shibboleth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth_(software))

    (which is used by Penn for authentication, and by the Platform authorization server).


    See the Django docs for more on Django''s features for

    [User Authentication](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/auth/),

    which are used by PCX apps, as part of Platform''s accounts system.

    '
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  contact:
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servers:
- url: https://penncoursereview.com
  description: Penn Course Review
- url: https://penncourseplan.com
  description: Penn Course Plan
tags:
- name: '[PCR] Department Reviews'
  description: ''
paths:
  /api/review/department/{department_code}:
    get:
      operationId: Retrieve Department Reviews
      description: '(GET `/api/review/department/{department_code}`)


        Get reviews for all courses in a department.


        <span style="color:red;">User authentication required</span>.'
      parameters:
      - name: department_code
        in: path
        required: true
        description: The department code you want reviews for, e.g. `CIS` for the CIS department.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                properties:
                  code:
                    type: string
                    description: The department code, e.g. `CIS` for the CIS department.
                  name:
                    type: string
                    description: The name of the department, e.g. 'Computer and Information Sci' for the CIS department.
                  courses:
                    type: object
                    description: Reviews for this department broken down by its courses. Note that each key in this subdictionary is the course full code (indicated by `COURSE_FULL_CODE`; this is not an actual key but a placeholder for potentially many keys).
                    properties:
                      COURSE_FULL_CODE:
                        type: object
                        description: This key `COURSE_FULL_CODE` is a placeholder for potentially many course full code keys. Each full code is the dash-joined department and most-recent (across all codes representing the topic) code of the course, e.g. `CIS-120` for CIS-120.
                        properties:
                          id:
                            type: string
                            description: The dash-joined department and most-recent (across all codes representing the topic) code of the course, e.g. `CIS-120` for CIS-120.
                          average_reviews:
                            type: object
                            description: This course's average reviews across all of its sections from all semesters. Note that if any of these subfields are missing or null, that means the subfield is not applicable or missing from our data (you should check for null values).
                            properties:
                              rSemesterCalc:
                                type: string
                                description: The oldest semester included in these review aggregations (of the form YYYYx where x is A [for spring], B [summer], or C [fall]), e.g. `2019C` for fall 2019. This field will not be missing.
                              rSemesterCount:
                                type: integer
                                description: The number of semesters included in these review aggregations. This field will not be missing.
                              rInstructorQuality:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Instructor Quality
                              rCourseQuality:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Course Quality
                              rCommunicationAbility:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Comm. Ability
                              rStimulateInterest:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Stimulate Ability
                              rInstructorAccess:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Instructor Access
                              rDifficulty:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Difficulty
                              rWorkRequired:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Work Required
                              rTaQuality:
                                type: number
                                description: Average TA Quality
                              rReadingsValue:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Readings Value
                              rAmountLearned:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Amount Learned
                              rRecommendMajor:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Recommend Major
                              rRecommendNonmajor:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Recommend Non-Major
                              rAbilitiesChallenged:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Abilities Challenged
                              rClassPace:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Class Pace
                              rInstructorEffective:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Instructor Effectiveness
                              rNativeAbility:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Native Ability
                              rFinalEnrollment:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Final Enrollment at the End of the Semester
                              rPercentOpen:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Percent of Add/Drop Period Open
                              rNumOpenings:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Number of Openings During Add/Drop
                              rFilledInAdvReg:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Percent of Sections Completely Filled During Advance Registration
                          recent_reviews:
                            type: object
                            description: This course's average reviews across all of its sections from the most recent semester. Note that if any of these subfields are missing or null, that means the subfield is not applicable or missing from our data (you should check for null values).
                            properties:
                              rSemesterCalc:
                                type: string
                                description: The oldest semester included in these review aggregations (of the form YYYYx where x is A [for spring], B [summer], or C [fall]), e.g. `2019C` for fall 2019. This field will not be missing.
                              rSemesterCount:
                                type: integer
                                description: The number of semesters included in these review aggregations. This field will not be missing.
                              rInstructorQuality:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Instructor Quality
                              rCourseQuality:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Course Quality
                              rCommunicationAbility:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Comm. Ability
                              rStimulateInterest:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Stimulate Ability
                              rInstructorAccess:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Instructor Access
                              rDifficulty:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Difficulty
                              rWorkRequired:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Work Required
                              rTaQuality:
                                type: number
                                description: Average TA Quality
                              rReadingsValue:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Readings Value
                              rAmountLearned:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Amount Learned
                              rRecommendMajor:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Recommend Major
                              rRecommendNonmajor:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Recommend Non-Major
                              rAbilitiesChallenged:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Abilities Challenged
                              rClassPace:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Class Pace
                              rInstructorEffective:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Instructor Effectiveness
                              rNativeAbility:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Native Ability
                              rFinalEnrollment:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Final Enrollment at the End of the Semester
                              rPercentOpen:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Percent of Add/Drop Period Open
                              rNumOpenings:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Number of Openings During Add/Drop
                              rFilledInAdvReg:
                                type: number
                                description: Average Percent of Sections Completely Filled During Advance Registration
                          latest_semester:
                            type: string
                            description: The most recent semester this course was taught (of the form YYYYx where x is A [for spring], B [summer], or C [fall]), e.g. `2019C` for fall 2019.
                          num_semesters:
                            type: integer
                            description: The number of semesters this class has been taught (that we have data for).
                          code:
                            type: string
                            description: Same as `id`.
                          name:
                            type: string
                            description: The title of the course, e.g. 'Programming Languages and Techniques I' for CIS-120.
          description: Reviews retrieved successfully.
        '403':
          description: Access denied (missing or improper authentication).
        '404':
          description: Department with the given department_code not found.
      tags:
      - '[PCR] Department Reviews'
x-tagGroups:
- name: Penn Course Plan
  tags:
  - '[PCP] Course Recommendations'
  - '[PCP] Schedule'
  - '[PCP] Primary Schedule'
  - '[PCP] Calendar'
  - '[PCP] Break'
- name: Penn Course Alert
  tags:
  - '[PCA] Registration History'
  - '[PCA] Registration'
- name: Penn Course Review
  tags:
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  - '[PCR] Autocomplete Dump'
  - '[PCR] Department Reviews'
  - '[PCR] Section-Specific Reviews'
  - '[PCR] Plots'
  - '[PCR] Instructor Reviews'
- name: Penn Courses (Base)
  tags:
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  - '[PCx] Status Updates'
  - '[PCx] Healths'
  - '[PCx] Friendship'
  - '[PCx] Course'
  - '[PCx] Section'
  - '[PCx] Pre-NGSS Requirements'
- name: Penn Labs Accounts
  tags:
  - '[Accounts] User'
- name: Other
  tags:
  - '[PDP] Docked Course'
  - '[PDP] Degree'
  - '[PDP] Onboard From Transcript'
  - '[PDP] Fulfillment'
  - '[PDP] Degree Plan Lists'
  - '[PDP] Satisfied Rule Lists'
  - '[PDP] Degree Plan Detail'