A complete list of undergraduate courses in alphabetical order.
Course number
100 and 200 level courses are intended primarily for freshmen and sophomores.
300 and 400 level courses are intended primarily for juniors and seniors and often have prerequisites.
500, 600, and 700 level courses are offered for graduate credit only, except in special circumstances for seniors in 500 level courses. (See the Graduate Catalog)
Prerequisite courses should have lower numbers than the courses for which they are prerequisites.
Numbers of deleted courses should not be assigned to new courses for a period of six years. If reassignment within six years is unavoidable, a “T” follows the reassigned number. The “T” is removed after six years.
Course numbers 199, 299, 399, and 499 are normally reserved for use by the University Honors Program; 699 is normally reserved for thesis courses, and 799 is reserved for dissertation courses.
Courses that treat different scholarly aspects of the same academic subfield may be grouped under the same numerical designation with different alphabetic suffixes (e.g., 490A, 490B, 490C, 490D). This is also a means of providing a more precise transcript record for independent study and topics courses. The following letters should not be used as a suffix to designate a topic subfield because they have other meanings:
F
First half session course
I
Looks like a one
L
Last half session course
O
Looks like a zero
P
Permit course
S
Laboratory section
T
Reuse of a former course number when former course was in effect fewer than three years ago
X
Crosslisted course
Z
International course
Course title
The title should not be repeated in the course description.
It should be sufficiently brief so as to fit (when abbreviated, if necessary) legibly on a transcript. (The transcript limitation is 30 characters, including spaces.)
It should accurately and concisely reflect the content of the course.
Course description
The description should not repeat the course title.
It should consist of concise phrases that avoid “catalog cliches” such as “This course is a study of …”
It should not include information normally provided in advisement.
Credit hours
Lecture courses commonly carry 3 hours of credit.
Undergraduate lecture courses with a laboratory normally carry 4 hours of credit.
Prerequisite/corequisite
Should be an appropriate course, one that contains the content necessary for entry to the subsequent/concurrent course.
For graduate-level courses, should include “or consent of department.”
Crosslisted courses
Any course may be crosslisted with one or more other departments through the curricular process.
Instructional responsibility remains with the department housing the original course, except that the original department may delegate that responsibility to another department.
Agreements relating to crosslisted courses must be made in writing and approved by the appropriate deans and college curriculum committees before being forwarded to the Committee on the Undergraduate Curriculum and/or the Graduate Council Curriculum Committee.
The chair of the originating department has the responsibility of coordinating any changes in a crosslisted course with the crosslisting department(s) and for seeing that the appropriate changes to all references to the course in the catalog(s) are forwarded to the appropriate university-level curriculum committee(s) at the same time.
The letter X as a suffix to a course number indicates a crosslisted course with primary responsibility in a different department.
