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package org.sakaiproject.section.api.coursemanagement;

/**
 * Models a sectionable "class" in higher education.  What a Course actually represents
 * is intentionally ambiguous.  In Sakai 2.1, where multiple sections from a
 * variety of courses may be associated with a site, a Course simply represents the
 * site along with the metadata needed by the Section Manager Tool.
 * 
 * @author Josh Holtzman
 *
 */
public interface Course extends LearningContext {
	/**
	 * The site associated with this course.
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	public String getSiteContext();
	
}