These courses would be marked as the most typical courses or the ones most recommended to satisfy a requirement, and they would then be displayed at the top of the search results, maybe even emphasized to the user in some way.
This would be useful when departments say something like "Take one course from this explicit list courses, or a substitute from department XXX".
The explicit list of courses would be the "recommended" ones, and would appear above and emphasized from from the possibly huge list of replacement courses from department XXX (some of which might even be in the explicit list).
Currently, in such a case, the explicit courses that the department recommends are buried in the search result by hundreds of other courses that may or may not be great options to satisfy the requirement.
These courses would be marked as the most typical courses or the ones most recommended to satisfy a requirement, and they would then be displayed at the top of the search results, maybe even emphasized to the user in some way.
This would be useful when departments say something like "Take one course from this explicit list courses, or a substitute from department XXX".
The explicit list of courses would be the "recommended" ones, and would appear above and emphasized from from the possibly huge list of replacement courses from department XXX (some of which might even be in the explicit list).
Currently, in such a case, the explicit courses that the department recommends are buried in the search result by hundreds of other courses that may or may not be great options to satisfy the requirement.