diff --git a/home/migrations/0007_course_geneds.py b/home/migrations/0007_course_geneds.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..03602fac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/home/migrations/0007_course_geneds.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Generated by Django 3.2.4 on 2023-02-07 17:50
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('home', '0006_delete_auditlog'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AddField(
+            model_name='course',
+            name='geneds',
+            field=models.JSONField(null=True),
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/home/models.py b/home/models.py
index f1c99c0a..5da200a2 100644
--- a/home/models.py
+++ b/home/models.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 from django.db.models import (Model, CharField, DateTimeField, TextField,
     IntegerField, BooleanField, ForeignKey, PositiveIntegerField, EmailField,
     CASCADE, ManyToManyField, SlugField, TextChoices, FloatField, Manager,
-    QuerySet, Sum, UniqueConstraint, Index, Count)
+    QuerySet, Sum, UniqueConstraint, Index, Count, JSONField)
 
 from fuzzywuzzy import fuzz
 
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ class Course(Model):
     # indices?). Since recency changes so infrequently, we'll cache it and
     # update it manually with a custom management command (`updaterecency`).
     is_recent = BooleanField(default=False)
-
+    geneds = JSONField(null=True)
     professors = ManyToManyField("Professor", blank=True,
         through="ProfessorCourse")
 
@@ -219,6 +219,19 @@ def average_gpa(self):
     def get_absolute_url(self):
         return reverse("course", kwargs={"name": self.name})
 
+    def gened_str(self):
+        gened_str = []
+        for item in self.geneds:
+            add_parens = len(item) > 1 and len(self.geneds) > 1
+            and_str = "(" if add_parens else ""
+            and_str += " and ".join(item)
+            and_str += ")" if add_parens else ""
+
+            # special umdio case. EX: https://api.umd.io/v1/courses/CHEM131
+            and_str = and_str.replace("|", " if taken with ")
+            gened_str.append(and_str)
+        return " or ".join(gened_str)
+
     def __str__(self):
         return self.name