Procedures for Verifying or Revising
Catalog Information
Courses on this listing should be included in the 2003-2005 catalog or approved as experimental courses for the duration of this catalog. All catalog-type information should be edited by departments and returned along with section offering listings. Corrections to course catalog-type information should be noted in red. Data on this listing include:
| COURSE TITLE | Abbreviated course title (19 characters) to appear in Schedule of Classes and on students' permanent records. You may recommend adjustments to the 19 character abbreviation that would improve representation of the course on the students’ transcript, but the full title published in the catalog may not be changed. |
| PREREQUISITES | Prerequisites should be as they appear in the 2003-05 catalog. Some prerequisites are abbreviated to fit available space. A change to a course prerequisite must be approved by the respective College Curriculum Committee, regardless of whether the change makes the prereq more or less restrictive. |
| COURSE CREDITS | Credits as published in the catalog. VAR indicates a variable credit course with no specific range indicated. REQ indicates an R-credit course. Changes to the credits published in the catalog or on the Experimental Course Form require permission of the College Curriculum Committee. |
| TERM OFFERED | F = Fall offering. S = Spring. 1 = Summer. This should match actual fall and spring offerings for the year at hand. For this submission, you do not need to be concerned about the accuracy of the summer offering indicator. |
| INSTRUCTION DATA | Includes type of instruction, contact hours per week per instruction type, and credit hours per instruction type. Percentages are used for variable credit courses and indicate how to compute contact hours and credit hours based on total credits taught in a term. A listing of valid instruction types is attached. Indicate any changes that would make this information more accurate. |
| SPECIAL FEE | The type and amount of an approved special course fee are indicated just below the prerequisite. Special course fee information – type of fee AND amount – for existing and approved SCFs will be published in the Schedule of Classes. For information on introducing a new special course fee or revising an existing special course fee, go to the Iowa State University homepage index, and choose “S” for Special Course fees. |
| S-F | S-F indicates this is a course graded on a satisfactory/fail basis only. Letter grades A-D may not be given for an S-F only course. As a general rule, satisfactory/fail grading basis changes require College Curriculum Committee approval. The exceptions are courses numbered 290, 490, 499 (if practicum or research), 590, 599, 690, 699 and courses titled seminar, workshop, colloquium, symposium, internship, supervised field experience, and special problems. These listed exceptions may use S-F without seeking College Curriculum Committee approval; however, if they are listed as S-F only in the University Catalog, a proposal to change to A-F grading should be presented to the College Curriculum Committee. |
| MULTIPLE ENROLLMENT | YES in this column indicates that a student may enroll more than once in this course during a term. This would be applicable to many 490 courses and other independent study or research courses. This does not apply to half-term courses in which a student may enroll during the second half to repeat a course taken during the first half. Mark new/deleted multiple enrollments here for entry into the system. |
| ADMINISTRATIVE DEPT | For a co-/cross listed course taught
or administered by another department, this column lists the department
coded as having administrative responsibility for the course. In the first
year of a new catalog biennium, to change the Administrative Department
on a course that is new to the catalog without being offered experimentally,
you may mark the change on these pages. We will verify with all participating
departments. To change the Administrative Department on any other co-/cross-listed course, signatures of department chairs of all departments listing the course are required on a memo addressed to the Student Scheduling Office. |
| ADMINISTRATIVE COLLEGE | For departments administered by two colleges, this field indicates which college has primary responsibility for each course. This college designation may be modified as necessary for individual sections of courses each term. Mark corrections on this page. |
If you have questions relative to the coding or correction of this file, contact Barb Hotchkiss at 4-2388.
Last updated
November 5, 2003
Iowa State University Office of the Registrar
214 Alumni Hall, Ames, IA 50011-2010