Student Web Service (SWS) Curriculum API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published SWS v5 OpenAPI. Specification public; data gated by UW NetID / X.509 client certificate and named ASTRA roles.
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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Student Web Service (SWS) Curriculum API
description: Student Web Service (SWS) provides a RESTful API to access and update central student data. Subscribe to http://mailman.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/sws-client-app-dev to get notifications about planned outages, support and the announcement of new features.
contact:
name: Enterprise Web Services & Events Team
url: https://itconnect.uw.edu/service/enterprise-web-services-and-events/
email: sws-support@uw.edu
version: v5
termsOfService: https://www.washington.edu/online/terms/
servers:
- url: https://ws.admin.washington.edu/student
description: UW-IT Enterprise Web Services production host for the Student Web Service
externalDocs:
description: UW-IT Enterprise Web Services registry
url: https://webservices.washington.edu/sws/
tags:
- name: Curriculum
x-operator: institution
x-provenance:
method: derived
source: openapi/_original/university-of-washington-student-web-service.yaml
generated: '2026-08-30'
note: Re-based by the university pipeline on 2026-08-30. refine-openapis had welded the IdCard Web Service title/contact/base onto outputs split from the Student Web Service original; identity restored from the true parent named above and the relative base resolved to the production host published on the EWS registry.
paths:
/v5/curriculum:
get:
tags:
- Curriculum
summary: Search for curriculums that match the supplied parameters
description: "<pre>\n {\n \"DisplayTitle\" : \"Curriculum Search\",\n \"ews_guid\" : \"AC340F89-812E-4FCB-B357-DCCFE65E0059\",\n \"LongDescription\" : \"Search for a list of curriculum results that match the supplied parameters\",\n \"ShortDescription\" : \"Search for a list of curriculum results\",\n \"OriginatingSchema\" : [ { \"source\":\"swssdb\" } ],\n \"Notes\" : \"This resource requires any of the following ASTRA roles:\n - sws:Support\n - sws:GradeSubmitter\n - sws:UnitReader\n This resource supports the following authentication types:\n - X.509 Certificate\n - NetID\n - AccessToken\n You do not need to specify all parameters to return a successful search result. This search resource \n supports different combinations of search parameters to provide different search results.\n For college abbreviations refer to the college resource. \n For department abbreviations refer to the department resource.\",\n \"Links\" : [ \"https://metadata.uw.edu/Catalog/ViewItem/Term/studentdata.curriculum\" ],\n \"Synonyms\" : []\n }\n </pre>"
operationId: CurriculumSearch
parameters:
- name: year
in: query
description: 'The 4 digit year. For example: 2025'
required: true
schema:
type: string
default: ''
- name: quarter
in: query
description: 'The 1 digit quarter. For example: 0=Default, 1=winter, 2=spring, 3=summer, 4=autumn'
required: true
schema:
type: string
default: ''
- name: future_terms
in: query
description: Number of future terms to look ahead
schema:
type: integer
format: int32
default: 0
- name: department_abbreviation
in: query
description: ''
schema:
type: string
default: ''
- name: college_abbreviation
in: query
description: ''
schema:
type: string
default: ''
- name: view_unpublished
in: query
description: ''
schema:
type: string
default: 'false'
responses:
'400':
description: 'Invalid input | Invalid arg: college abbreviation'
'200':
description: OK
content:
text/html:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CurriculumSearchViewModel'
application/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CurriculumSearchViewModel'
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CurriculumSearchViewModel'
text/plain:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CurriculumSearchViewModel'
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CurriculumSearchViewModel'
text/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CurriculumSearchViewModel'
'202':
description: Accepted
'301':
description: MovedPermanently
'302':
description: Found
'304':
description: NotModified
'401':
description: Identity '{identity}' is not authorized to access this resource.
'405':
description: MethodNotAllowed
'500':
description: InternalServerError
'503':
description: ServiceUnavailable
components:
schemas:
CurriculumSearchViewModel:
type: object
properties:
TotalCount:
type: integer
format: int32
Curricula:
type:
- array
- 'null'
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CurriculumResourceUri'
readOnly: true
PageSize:
type:
- string
- 'null'
PageStart:
type:
- string
- 'null'
Current:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CurriculumSearchResourceUri'
Next:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CurriculumSearchResourceUri'
Previous:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CurriculumSearchResourceUri'
additionalProperties: false
description: "{\n \"DisplayTitle\" : \"Curriculum Search Model\",\n \"TargetSchema\" : [{\"target\" : \"SWS.Curriculum\"}]\n}"
CurriculumResourceUri:
type: object
properties:
Year:
type: integer
description: "<pre>\n {\n \"OriginatingSchema\" : [\n { \"source\":\"SWSSDB.sr_course_titles.first_eff_yr\" },\n { \"source\":\"SWSSDB.sr_course_titles.last_eff_yr\" }\n ],\n \"TechnicalDescription\": \"Year\"\n }\n </pre>"
format: int32
Quarter:
type:
- string
- 'null'
description: "<pre>\n {\n \"OriginatingSchema\" : [\n { \"source\":\"SWSSDB.sr_course_titles.first_eff_qtr\" },\n { \"source\":\"SWSSDB.sr_course_titles.last_eff_qtr\" }\n ],\n \"TechnicalDescription\": \"Quarter\"\n }\n </pre>"
CurriculumAbbreviation:
type:
- string
- 'null'
description: "<pre>\n {\n \"OriginatingSchema\" : [\n { \"source\":\"SWSSDB.sr_curric_code.curric_abbr\" }\n ],\n \"TechnicalDescription\": \"Curriculum abbreviation\"\n }\n </pre>"
CurriculumName:
type:
- string
- 'null'
description: "<pre>\n {\n \"OriginatingSchema\" : [\n { \"source\":\"SWSSDB.sr_curric_code.curric_name\" }\n ],\n \"TechnicalDescription\": \"Curriculum name\"\n }\n </pre>"
CurriculumFullName:
type:
- string
- 'null'
description: "<pre>\n {\n \"OriginatingSchema\" : [\n { \"source\":\"SWSSDB.sr_curric_code.curric_full_nm\" }\n ],\n \"TechnicalDescription\": \"Curriculum full name\"\n }\n </pre>"
Href:
type:
- string
- 'null'
additionalProperties: false
description: "{\n \"DisplayTitle\" : \"Expanded Curriculum Resource URI\",\n \"TargetSchema\" : [{\"target\" : \"SWS.Curriculum\"}],\n \"TargetOperationId\" : [\"CurriculumSearch\"]\n}"
CurriculumSearchResourceUri:
type: object
properties:
Year:
type: integer
description: "<pre>\n {\n \"OriginatingSchema\" : [\n { \"source\":\"url\" }\n ],\n \"TechnicalDescription\": \"User supplied value\"\n }\n </pre>"
format: int32
Quarter:
type:
- string
- 'null'
description: "<pre>\n {\n \"OriginatingSchema\" : [\n { \"source\":\"url\" }\n ],\n \"TechnicalDescription\": \"User supplied value\"\n }\n </pre>"
DepartmentAbbreviation:
type:
- string
- 'null'
description: "<pre>\n {\n \"OriginatingSchema\" : [\n { \"source\":\"url\" }\n ],\n \"TechnicalDescription\": \"User supplied value\"\n }\n </pre>"
CollegeAbbreviation:
type:
- string
- 'null'
description: "<pre>\n {\n \"OriginatingSchema\" : [\n { \"source\":\"url\" }\n ],\n \"TechnicalDescription\": \"User supplied value\"\n }\n </pre>"
FutureTerms:
type: integer
description: "<pre>\n {\n \"OriginatingSchema\" : [\n { \"source\":\"url\" }\n ],\n \"TechnicalDescription\": \"User supplied value\"\n }\n </pre>"
format: int32
ViewUnpublished:
type: boolean
Href:
type:
- string
- 'null'
additionalProperties: false
description: "{\n \"DisplayTitle\" : \"Curriculum Search Resource URI\",\n \"TargetSchema\" : [{\"target\" : \"SWS.Curriculum\"}],\n \"TargetOperationId\" : [\"CurriculumSearch\"]\n}"