Appendix Course Abbreviations
The University offers courses in the following fields of study. The abbreviations in the second column are used in catalogs, course schedules, and student records. Fields marked with a (*) are offered only at the undergraduate level.
| Course | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| Accounting | ACC |
| *Actuarial foundations | ACF |
| Advertising | ADV |
| Aerospace engineering | ASE |
| African and African diaspora studies | AFR |
| *Air Force science | AFS |
| American Sign Language | ASL |
| American studies | AMS |
| *Ancient history and classical civilization | AHC |
| Anthropology | ANT |
| *Applied learning and development | ALD |
| Arabic | ARA |
| Architectural engineering | ARE |
| Architectural interior design | ARI |
| Architecture | ARC |
| Art education | AED |
| Art history | ARH |
| *Arts and entertainment technology | AET |
| *Asian American studies | AAS |
| Asian studies | ANS |
| Astronomy | AST |
| Bassoon | BSN |
| Bengali | BEN |
| Biochemistry | BCH |
| Biology | BIO |
| Biomedical engineering | BME |
| *Bridging disciplines | BDP |
| Business administration | B A |
| Business, government, and society | BGS |
| Chemical engineering | CHE |
| Chemistry | CH |
| Chinese | CHI |
| Civil engineering | C E |
| Clarinet | CLA |
| Classical civilization | C C |
| Cognitive science | CGS |
| Communication | COM |
| Communication and leadership | CLD |
| Communication sciences and disorders | CSD |
| Communication studies | CMS |
| Community and regional planning | CRP |
| Comparative literature | C L |
| *Computational engineering | COE |
| Computational science, engineering, and mathematics | CSE |
| Computer science | C S |
| Conducting | CON |
| *Core texts and ideas | CTI |
| *Creative writing | CRW |
| *Cultural studies | CLS |
| Curriculum and instruction | EDC |
| Czech | CZ |
| *Danish | DAN |
| Design | DES |
| *Developmental studies | DEV |
| Double bass | D B |
| Drum set | DRS |
| *Dutch | DCH |
| Economics | ECO |
| Educational leadership and policy | ELP |
| Educational psychology | EDP |
| Electrical engineering | E E |
| Energy and earth resources | EER |
| Energy management | EMA |
| Engineering management | ENM |
| Engineering mechanics | E M |
| Engineering studies | E S |
| English | E |
| English as a second language | ESL |
| *Ensemble | ENS |
| *Environmental engineering | EVE |
| *Environmental science | EVS |
| Euphonium | EUP |
| European studies | EUS |
| Finance | FIN |
| Fine Arts | F A |
| *Finnish | FNH |
| Flute | FLU |
| Foreign language education | FLE |
| French | FR |
| *French civilization | F C |
| French horn | F H |
| *General engineering | G E |
| Geography | GRG |
| Geological sciences | GEO |
| German | GER |
| German, Scandinavian, and Dutch studies | GSD |
| Government | GOV |
| Graduate school | GRS |
| Greek | GK |
| Guitar | GUI |
| Harp | HAR |
| *Harpsichord | HSC |
| Health and society | H S |
| Health care transformation | HCT |
| Health education | HED |
| Hebrew | HEB |
| Hindi | HIN |
| History | HIS |
| Human development and family sciences | HDF |
| Human dimensions of organizations | HDO |
| Human ecology | H E |
| *Humanities | HMN |
| Iberian and Latin American languages and cultures | ILA |
| Identity management and security | IMS |
| Indigenous languages of Latin America | LAL |
| Information studies | INF |
| *Integrated design | ITD |
| International business | I B |
| *International relations and global studies | IRG |
| *Islamic studies | ISL |
| Italian | ITL |
| *Italian civilization | ITC |
| Japanese | JPN |
| Jewish studies | J S |
| Journalism | J |
| Kinesiology | KIN |
| Korean | KOR |
| Landscape architecture | LAR |
| Language teaching and coordination | LTC |
| Latin | LAT |
| Latin American studies | LAS |
| Law | LAW |
| Legal environment of business | LEB |
| *Liberal arts | L A |
| *Liberal arts honors | LAH |
| Linguistics | LIN |
| Malayalam | MAL |
| Management | MAN |
| Management information systems | MIS |
| Manufacturing systems engineering | MFG |
| Marine science | MNS |
| Marketing | MKT |
| Materials science and engineering | MSE |
| Mathematics | M |
| Mechanical engineering | M E |
| Medicine | MED |
| Medieval studies | MDV |
| Mexican American studies | MAS |
| Middle Eastern languages and cultures | MEL |
| Middle Eastern studies | MES |
| *Military science | M S |
| Molecular biology | MOL |
| Music | MUS |
| *Music business | MBU |
| *Music recording technology | MRT |
| *Natural sciences | NSC |
| *Naval science | N S |
| Neuroscience | NEU |
| *Norwegian | NOR |
| Nursing | N |
| Nutrition | NTR |
| Oboe | OBO |
| Opera | OPR |
| Operations management | O M |
| Operations research and industrial engineering | ORI |
| Organ | ORG |
| *Pashto | PSH |
| Percussion | PER |
| Performance | PRF |
| Persian | PRS |
| Petroleum and geosystems engineering | PGE |
| Pharmacy graduate studies | PGS |
| Pharmacy PharmD | PHM |
| Philosophy | PHL |
| *Physical education | PED |
| *Physical science | P S |
| Physics | PHY |
| Piano | PIA |
| Polish | POL |
| Portuguese | POR |
| *Portuguese civilization | PRC |
| Psychology | PSY |
| Public affairs | P A |
| *Public health | PBH |
| Public relations | P R |
| *Public safety | PSF |
| Radio-television-film | RTF |
| Real estate | R E |
| *Recorder | REC |
| Religious studies | R S |
| Rhetoric and writing | RHE |
| Risk management | R M |
| Russian | RUS |
| Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies | REE |
| Sanskrit | SAN |
| Saxophone | SAX |
| *Science | SCI |
| Science and technology commercialization | STC |
| Science, technology, and society | STS |
| Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education | STM |
| Science-mathematics education | SME |
| Serbian/Croatian | S C |
| Slavic | SLA |
| Slavic and Eurasian languages | SEL |
| *Social science | S S |
| Social work | S W |
| Sociology | SOC |
| *South Asian languages | SAL |
| Spanish | SPN |
| *Spanish civilization | SPC |
| Special education | SED |
| *Sustainability studies | SUS |
| Statistics | STA |
| Statistics and data sciences | SDS |
| Studio art | ART |
| *Swahili | SWA |
| *Swedish | SWE |
| *Systems and synthetic biology | SSB |
| Tamil | TAM |
| Telugu | TEL |
| Textiles and apparel | TXA |
| Theatre and dance | T D |
| Trombone | TRO |
| Trumpet | TRU |
| Tuba | TBA |
| Turkish | TUR |
| *Tutorial course | T C |
| *Undergraduate studies | UGS |
| *Urban studies | URB |
| Urdu | URD |
| *UTeach-liberal arts | UTL |
| UTeach-natural sciences | UTS |
| Vibraphone | VIB |
| *Vietnamese | VTN |
| Viola | VIA |
| Violin | VIO |
| Violoncello | V C |
| *Visual art studies | VAS |
| Voice | VOI |
| Women’s and gender studies | WGS |
| Writing | WRT |
| *Yiddish | YID |
| Yoruba | YOR |