VIP Courses

VIP is offered at the sophomore, junior, senior and graduate student levels. Sophomores are limited to 1 credit per semester.  Juniors and seniors can choose between 1 and 2 credits.  Three-credit sections are avaialble in special cases (not included in the table below), and are typically limited to students in their 3rd semester of VIP.

Course Numbers

The first digit in the course number represents student level, with 2000-level courses for sophomores, 3000-level courses for juniors, etc.  The last digit represents the number of credits. A zero-credit course is offered for students who are paid by their instructors, with the zero-credit course showing up as a 1-credit audit course on their transcripts.

Section Numbers

VIP teams include a mix of sohpmores, juniors, seniors and graduate students, as well as a mix of 1 and 2-credit hour students. This means each team can have students enrolled in five or more course numbers.  The teams are differentaited in Banner by section number, with the same section number used across all course numbers for a given team. The section number is the key identifier for each team, and it stays the same from semester-to-semester.

 

Sophomore

Junior

Senior

Graduate

Course #

2601

2600, 2698

3601

3602

3600

4601

4602

Capstone

4600, 4698

6601

6602

6603

6600

Credits

1

Pay

1

2

Pay

1

2

Varies

Pay

1

2

3

Pay

Section, team 1

VP1

VP1

VP1

VP1

VP1

VP1

VP1

VP1

VP1

VP1

VP1

VP1

VP1

Section, team 2

VP2

VP2

VP2

VP2

VP2

VP2

VP2

VP2

VP2

VP2

VP2

VP2

VP2

 

Course Creation in Banner

Banner is Georgia Tech's integrated student and course informatin system. VIP courses are created in Banner by schedulers in instructors' home departments with a minimum of five sections per team (1 course for sophomores, 2 for juniors, and 3 for seniors). Each semester, the VIP Program sends schedulers in each department lists of VIP instructors from their department, so that department schedulers can create VIP sections for their instructors from their departments.