Course Designations

Understanding Course Listings

The first number in the course number designates the level of the course — a lower number means less background knowledge or experience is expected — and not necessarily the year in which a course must or should be taken. After the course number and title, a short description of the content, requirements, and/or skills is provided. After the description, prerequisites — if any — the amount of time and type of class meetings, and credit hours are provided. Lastly, abbreviations of any core requirements fulfilled by the course are provided. The abbreviations are:

Abbreviation	Meaning
CIE	Common Intellectual Experience
GN	Examine global interconnections
DN	Engage diversity and inequality
O	Obligations
LINQ	Linked inquiry
A	Artistic/Performative
H	Humanistic inquiry
SS	Social science inquiry
S	Scientific inquiry/experimentation
R	Deductive inquiry
Q	Quantitative reasoning Note: For some courses the Q is included in the course number and not with the other core designations
L	Understanding the world through foreign language
XLP	Experiential learning project
CCAP	Core Capstone