These majors are advising paths — not a finished Texas Direct block

What this page is

The Texas Direct explainer quotes the Coordinating Board on what a finished Field of Study does. This page is the warning side of that same table: rows that were not Completed on highered.texas.gov/texas-direct when we fetched it on August 30, 2026. These are advising paths. They are not a reserved university seat, and they are not a finished block toward the major.

Sources retrieved September 17, 2026: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. All sources

Status lines we copied from THECB

Copied from the Texas Direct “Revised FOSC Progress to Date” table on August 30, 2026. We quote the live web table. We do not replace it with an older slide.

Say that plainly: Computer Science is not a completed block. Biology is not a completed block. Architecture is not a completed block. Engineering is not a completed block. English, History (B.A.), and Music were also unfinished on that same table. History (B.S.) is a different row — Completed — and lives on the history career page, which keeps the B.A. caution separate. Computer Science already warns on the computer science page. Biology already warns on the biology career page. English already warns on the english career page. Architecture already warns on the architecture career page.

Banner still on the THECB page

The Texas Direct page still opened with this sentence on August 30, 2026: “Fields of Study in Architecture, Music, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering were extended at the July 2025 Board meeting in rule until August 31, 2027.” An extension in rule is not a Completed row on the Revised FOSC table. Do not treat those majors as a finished Texas Direct block.

Sources retrieved September 17, 2026: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. All sources

When Texas Direct block language applies

Under the new framework, THECB says a complete Field of Study Curriculum includes discipline-relevant Core courses, up to 12 semester credit hours of Discipline Foundation Courses, and at least 6 semester credit hours of Directed Electives submitted by the relevant faculty of each general academic institution. Directed Electives are university-specific. The Texas Direct Transfer Degree and the “transfer as a block applied directly to their selected major” sentence apply only if the student completes the Texas Core Curriculum and the Field of Study.

THECB’s own words: “Students who complete the Texas Core Curriculum and Field of Study at any public two-year institution automatically qualify to receive an associate degree – the Texas Direct Transfer Degree. They are also qualified to transfer their courses as a block applied directly to their selected major.” If the FOS row is still pending Directed Electives, that block sentence is not the honest description of the major.

Sources retrieved September 17, 2026: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. All sources

What THECB says about an incomplete FOS

THECB’s Texas Direct page says that if a student transfers with an incomplete FOSC, each completed FOSC course still transfers and applies, and the institution may require the student to complete additional lower-division courses. That is course-by-course advising. It is not the finished-block rule. Admission is not guaranteed either way.

Sources retrieved September 17, 2026: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. All sources

Legacy Field of Study paragraph (still on the page)

THECB still printed a Legacy Field of Study Curricula section on August 30, 2026: curricula developed under the former framework remain active until they expire by operation of law, unless replaced sooner. Unless replaced, THECB says the effectiveness of each listed legacy FOSC expires on August 31, 2025, and points to Texas Administrative Code, Title 19, Part 1, Subchapter B, Rule 4.32(g). Biology is still on that legacy list — “Biology (effective Fall 2019).” Architecture, the four named engineering curricula, English, and Music are on that list too. A legacy listing that has reached its expiration date is not a Completed Texas Direct block.

Sources retrieved September 17, 2026: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. All sources

What ACC’s catalogs said the same day

ACC’s 2026–27 Texas Transfer Framework overview (fetched August 30, 2026) does not list Computer Science, Biology, or English as a current Field of Study. It does list Architecture and Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering Fields of Study, each marked to expire August 2027. The individual 2026–27 Architecture, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering catalog pages each say the field of study will expire on August 31, 2027, and each tells students to consult an advisor at the Texas college or university to which they are transferring. That is receiving-campus advising — not Texas Direct block language.

Sources retrieved September 17, 2026: Austin Community College Catalog; Austin Community College Catalog; Austin Community College Catalog; Austin Community College Catalog; Austin Community College Catalog. All sources

ACC’s 2025–26 catalog archive still says: “Biology Field of Study– Expired August 2025. The THECB is in the process of developing a new field of study curriculum.” That archive also marks English and History B.A. Fields of Study as expired August 2025. We do not turn an expired ACC row into a completed THECB block.

Sources retrieved September 17, 2026: Austin Community College Catalog. All sources

What this site will not say

• We will not call Computer Science, Biology, English, Architecture, or Engineering a completed Texas Direct block while THECB lists them as unfinished.
• We will not invent a 2+2 dollar total for these majors. For the arithmetic of a finished map, use the dated Austin, Houston, Dallas, Alamo, Fort Worth, El Paso, Lubbock, Corpus Christi, Tyler, Amarillo, McAllen, Brownsville, Laredo, Waco, Beaumont, and Midland–Odessa, and Victoria, and Texarkana, and Wichita Falls, and Abilene, and Bryan–College Station, and Galveston examples — those are not a pending-FOS price.
• We will not say completing Core courses, or sitting in an ACC Architecture or engineering Field of Study that expires August 31, 2027, admits anyone to a university.
• We will not merge an older THECB slide — including any January 22, 2026 deck that talked about Biology collection, CIS public comment, or spring subcommittee meetings — into the August 30, 2026 web table. If you see that slide elsewhere, it is older and dated.
• We will not publish starting salaries, earnings, or job counts.

Always reload highered.texas.gov/texas-direct before you treat a major as block-transfer ready. Then read the Texas Direct explainer for the completed-block rule, the computer science career page for the existing CS warning, the biology career page for the pending-Biology / MD / PA / RN split, the english career page for the pending-English / TEA-certificate split, the architecture career page for the pending-Architecture / TBAE-license split and the 2027 extension-is-not-Completed caution, and the history career page for the History (B.A.) caution next to the completed History (B.S.) row.