• Overview
• Applicable Plan Codes
  • Pre-Selected Special (UNPS999)
  • International Exchange Special (UNIS999)
  • International Visiting Special (VISP)
• Procedures
  • Proposing/Revising/Discontinuing Tracks
  • Revising Course Requisites

Overview

A track is a type of subplan for a non-degree plan code in the special student career. Tracks define a specific student profile and indicate their purpose for enrolling as a special student at UW-Madison. In limited situations, new tracks can be created and utilized in course requisites to allow these students to enroll for a course where they do not otherwise meet stated course requisites because their course work from other institutions is not transferred and/or transcripted. Tracks in the special student career are approved through the Division of Continuing Studies but must also have support from a school/college if the program represented by the track is related to a program or unit in that school/college.

Tracks are allowable for use in course requisites because they identify students that have a specific academic background/preparation appropriate for the specific program.

Applicable Plan Codes

Pre-Selected Special (UNPS999; Lumen key: 990)

International Exchange Special (UNIS999; Lumen key: 988)

International Visiting Special (Visiting International Student Program; VISP)

Procedures

Proposing/Revising/Discontinuing Tracks

You will need to coordinate with the Division of Continuing Studies (DCS) and your school/college Dean's office.

1. Connect with the Division of Continuing Studies Assistant Dean for Admissions & Student Services. You must complete this form, which will be entered into Lumen Programs by DCS.
2. The proposal approval will be documented by inclusion of the For the Record list on the last University Academic Planning Council agenda of the academic year. Tracks are approved by Data, Academic Planning and Institutional Research and may require additional approvals, depending on the circumstance.

VISP SIS codes

• All codes are approved for immediate use, but in order to minimize the administrative management of codes these will be treated similar to the GCRT/LCRT/MCRT/PCRT/VCRT codes and will be created when required for use. When an additional code is required, DCS must submit a Lumen Structures proposal indicating the code that needs to be activated in SIS.
• If course proposals include VISP in the course requisites, the requisite will be built using the specified audience. If including all three, all three must be created in SIS (opposed to waiting for a structures proposal).

Revising Catalog Requisites

1. Submit course proposals to revise the requisites for any applicable course this audience may enroll.

• You will need to submit individual course proposals; no bulk process is available for adding/removing special student tracks from catalog requisites.
• Courses adding tracks to catalog requisites will not be reviewed by the University Curriculum Committee until the proposals for the track and parent plan are submitted to workflow.
• The correct language to use in the requisite is "Declared in [name of track/program]."