Undergraduate Course Descriptions
The credit weight is the relative value assigned to the course. A full-credit course carries twice the weight of a half-credit course and normally consists of three contact hours per week over an eight-month period (September - April). A half-credit course carries twice the weight of a quarter-credit course and is normally conducted over a four-month period. A credit denotes a full-credit course with 1.0 indicated in the course description. A half-credit course is indicated with the 0.5 weight in the course description, and a quarter-credit course as 0.25 in the description. In the program descriptions, the following symbols are used following the course number:
Credit Weight | Symbol |
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One and a half credits (1.5) | ‡ |
Full-credit (1.0) | * | Quarter-credit (0.25) | º |
(Half-credit courses do not have a symbol appended.)
In the Fall and Winter terms, a full-credit course is usually taught over two terms, a half-credit course over one term, and a quarter-credit course over six weeks. However, courses may be taught over other periods of time than those just listed. In this Calendar, half-credit courses are indicated simply by the course number consisting of the discipline code (see list in next section) and a three-digit number.
This system of notation represents a change, occasioned by the prevalence of half-credit courses, from that used in all calendars prior to the 1993-1994 version, in which the symbol * was used to identify half-credit courses.
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