Key to Course Listings

Course Numbering Guide: Columbia College Chicago’s course numbers are made up of six digits, and each of the digits represents important information about the course. The following numbering systems are used throughout the course listing for course identification. Please see the example course listing below for further illustration and explanation.

22-1101
The first two digits of the course number identify the department or major; department 22 is Art and Design.

2-1101
The third digit, the digit following the hyphen, indicates the levelof the course. Course levels are defined as follows:

	1000	Introductory courses that usually do not require prerequisites.
	2000	Intermediate courses that may require prerequisites.
	3000	Advanced courses that normally require prerequisites.
	4000	Undergraduate part of a combined graduate/undergraduate course. These combined graduate/undergraduate courses are defined as graduate courses in which qualified undergraduates may be permitted to enroll.

Courses appearing in the catalog of Columbia’s Graduate Administration have these levels:

	5000	Graduate portion of a combined graduate/undergraduate course.
	6000	A course open to graduate students only.

22-1101
The fourth digit indicates the subject-matter area within the department or major. Each department and major assigns subject areas and concentrations to this digit for all courses in that discipline. These subject-matter areas appear as subheadings in the course listings in this catalog. In this example of a course in Art and Design, the numeral 1 in the place of the fourth digit indicates a course in the subject area of Art History.

Within the course listings for this catalog and in the online Course Schedule for every semester, departments order their courses first by subject matter (that is, by the number appearing in digit four) and then by level and sequence.

22-1101
Digits five and six indicate the order of the course within a sequence. In this example, History of Art I is the first course in the Art History sequence. Additionally, course numbers ending in 88 and 89 are internships; course numbers ending in 98 and 99 are independent projects.

Writing Intensive Requirement

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LAS2LVL

LAS 2000 Plus Level

Prerequisites

Many courses require prerequisites. This reflects the view of the faculty that successful completion of the course requires certain background skills or knowledge contained in the prerequisite course(s). Students not meeting the prerequisites may not register for the course. Some prerequisites may be taken concurrently with a course. These are called co-requisites. A concurrent requisite means that the two courses must be taken in the same term. Questions concerning these options should be addressed to the department offering the course.