Oct 15, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

Course Numbering and Prefixes


General Information


The following courses are offered by UNC Asheville. Not every course is taught every year, and changes are frequently made in the offerings. Each semester, a detailed schedule of the courses being offered is published on the Registrar’s website, http://registrar.unca.edu/. The schedule includes the courses to be taught that semester and their times and locations. Indication of when most courses are offered is provided in this catalog.

Numbering of Courses

Course numbers are an indication of the level of difficulty of a course. Courses numbered from 100 to 199 are basic or introductory courses. Mostly freshmen will take these courses. Courses numbered from 200 to 299 are intermediate courses. These courses might or might not have specific prerequisites. However, these courses are not usually taken by beginning freshmen. Courses numbered 300 to 499 are advanced courses. These are normally taken in the junior and senior years. Many carry prerequisites. Courses numbered 300 or above require junior standing, except those calling for specific prerequisites. Students may obtain permission from the instructor to deviate from this policy.

Course Credit

Successful completion of a course carries with it academic credit expressed in semester hours. This is usually the number of hours the class meets per week, although there are exceptions to this, especially for laboratory courses and internships. The number in parentheses following the course title is the amount of credit that successful completion of the course carries. Some courses are cross-listed. This means that the same course carries two different numbers and serves to meet requirements in two different programs. A student may not take cross-listed courses under both numbers since he or she would really be taking the same course twice.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations are used in course names in this catalog and in the class schedule as follows:

Accounting ACCT
Africana Studies AFST
American Indian and Indigenous Studies AIIS
Ancient Mediterranean Studies AMS
Anthropology ANTH
Art ART
Art History ARTH
Arts ARTS
Arts and Markets AM
Asian Studies ASIA
Astronomy ASTR
Atmospheric Sciences ATMS
Biology BIOL
Business BUS
Chemistry CHEM
Cherokee CHER
Computer Science CSCI
Dance DAN
Drama DRAM
Economics ECON
Education EDUC
Engineering ENGR
   

Abbreviations E through MSE are offered by North Carolina State University as part of the Joint Degree in Engineering.

General Engineering E
Electrical and Computer Engineering ECE
Joint Engineering-Mechatronics JEM
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering MAE
Material Science and Engineering MSE
   
Environmental Science ENVS
Ethics and Social Institutions ESI
First-Year Studies FYS
French FREN
German GERM
Health and Wellness HW
Health Sciences HS
History HIST
Honors HON
Human Rights Studies HRST
Humanities HUM
Interdisciplinary Studies IST
International Studies INTS
Language LANG
Languages and Literatures LL
Legal Studies LEGL
Liberal Arts LA
Literature LIT
Mass Communication MCOM
Mathematics MATH
Music MUSC
Neuroscience NEUR
New Media NM
Philosophy PHIL
Physics PHYS
Political Science POLS
Portuguese PORT
Psychology PSYC
Public Health PUBH
Religious Studies RELS
Sociology SOC
Spanish SPAN
School of Public Health-General SPHG
Statistics STAT
Study Abroad SABR
U.S. Ethnic Studies ETHN
Visual Media Production VMP
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies WGSS
World Languages WLNG