Programs and Courses
- General Information
- Unit of Academic Credit
- Significance of the Course Number
- Course Levels
- Letter Suffixes for General Education Courses
- Equivalent Courses
- Repeatable Courses
Unit of Academic Credit
Generally, one credit represents the equivalent of one hour of lecture or recitation or at least two hours of laboratory work each week for one semester or the equivalent in honors study.The number following each course title; e.g., (3), indicates the credits offered for that course.
Significance of Course Number
Each course offered by the University is assigned a designation and a number according to a plan that is outlined here. The specific course designation and number appears in the bulletin directly in front of the course title.Each course designation consists of three separate units: (1) the school designation; (2) the subject or departmental designation; and (3) the course number.
The school or college offering a course is identified by a single letter as noted here.
Letter School or College A College of Arts and Sciences B School of Business D former Division of Physical Education, Athletics, and Recreation E School of Education G International Studies H School of Public Health O Educational Opportunities Program R School of Criminal Justice, School of Information Science and Policy, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, and School of Social Welfare T former General Education Honors Program Honors Tutorials U University-Wide Offerings X Regional Cross-Registration Course Levels
Students ordinarily enroll in courses at the level appropriate to their class. The course number is a three-digit number assigned to the course by the academic unit offering the course. The first digit reflects the level at which the course is taught.Some courses are given the designation a or b after the course number, indicating the first and second half, respectively, of a two-semester sequence. The level designations are noted here.
000-099 Noncredit courses [Exception: transfer courses having no counterpart at the University are sometimes evaluated as AHIS010, AENG030, etc., meaning 100-level History elective, 300-level English elective, and so on.]]
Letter Suffixes for General Education Courses
For the "Continuing General Education Program," courses approved in some general education categories and/or as writing intensive courses are usually identified by the following letter suffixes after the course number.
L, I Humanities and the Arts M Social Sciences N Natural Sciences E Humanities and the Arts
+ WritingF Natural Sciences
+ WritingG Social Sciences
+ WritingZ Writing Intensive
The "New General Education Program" also employs the suffixes E, F, G, and Z to identify writing intensive courses. The other suffixes are not used; instead, students and advisers refer to lists for each category.At the end of course descriptions in this bulletin, the following abbreviations are used, within brackets, to indicate any of the New General Education Requirement categories met by the course:
[AR] = Arts [BE] = Regions Beyond Europe [DP] = U.S. Diversity and Pluralism [EU] = Europe [FL] = Foreign Language [GC] = Global/Cross-Cultural [HU] = Humanities [IL] = Information Literacy [MS] = Mathematics/Statistics [NS] = Natural Sciences [OD] = Oral Discourse [SS] = Social Sciences [US] = U.S. History [US*] U.S. History expanded list [WI] = Writing Intensive Equivalent Courses
If a course is cross-listed (considered equivalent) with a course from another department or school, the equivalent course is listed in parentheses after the course number with an equals sign.Therefore, if a course fulfills a requirement for a major, minor, or general education category, all courses cross-listed with that course shall be considered to fulfill the same requirement.
Students who have received graduation credit for a cross-listed course may not also receive graduation credit for the equivalent courses(s) listed in parentheses.
If a course has had its number changed within the past four years, the prior number is listed in parentheses after the current course number. Unless expressly allowed to do so in the course description, students who have received graduation credit for a course under a previous course number may not also receive graduation credit for the same course under a new course number.
Repeatable Courses
If a course may be repeated for graduation credit, this will be indicated in the course description. Sometimes the repeatability is restricted and this is also indicated in the course description: "may be repeated once for credit," "may be repeated if topic differs," etc.If the description does not indicate the course can be repeated for credit, then a student who takes and passes the same course more than once will only receive graduation credit for that course once.
