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I’m a total newbie working on a large college site, and we’re using categories to display a list of courses required in a specific program.

So I’ve got one channel, “courses” that has all the potential classes a major could have, and in each major page, I’d like to show those courses.

I don’t want to hardcode the category ID in, because I don’t want to replicate the template for every single program.

Our category structure is 2 layers deep, and goes something like “Undergraduate (accounting, supply chain management), Graduate (accounting, finance)” etc.

Child categories seem to automatically select their parent category, so the below code is displaying all undergraduate courses, and not just, say, accounting.

Any ideas about how I could get something that would filter to the subcategories?  Should I be doing something specific with the URL? Is there a better way to be doing this?

{exp:channel:entries channel="college_of_business_courses" dynamic="off" related_categories_mode="on" custom_fields="yes" orderby="short_course_name|course_number" sort="asc"}
                    
                     <div class="course">
                         {title}
                         {short_course_name} {course_number}
                            {course_description_brief} 
                        </div>
                    {/exp:channel:entries}