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Thursday, August 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Numbers Game KU, State Schools to Adopt Uniform System
By LYDIA BEEBE
Kanan Staff Writer
A cooperative effort among Kansas' six state institutions is being completed this summer to bring about identical course numbering systems in all six schools by the spring semester of 1974, according to William Kelly, registrar.
The new course numbering plan will divide courses into six categories and assign a block of numbers to each group. Lower division undergraduate courses, primarily aimed at freshmen and sophomores, will be numbered from 190 to 299.
Here's the New Statewide Class Identification System
course numbers classes eligible
100-299 freshman, sophomore
300-499 junior, senior
500-699 junior, senior, graduate I
700-799 junior* , senior*, graduate I
800-899 graduate I
900-999 graduate II
Upper division undergraduate classes, designed specifically for juniors and seniors, will be assigned numbers between 300 and 499.
The recommendation was given to the Board of Regents, who issued a memorandum March 28, 1972, requiring the systems' development and adoption.
*WITH PERMISSION
Graduate I is masters candidates
Graduate II is doctoral candidates
The idea of having consistent numbering systems across the state was conceived a year and a half ago by the Council of Presidents of the six schools involved.
A third category is set up also primarily for upper division undergraduates but includes some courses that graduate I students (masters' candidates) can take for credit. Its numbering sequence extends from 500 to 690.
Courses numbered from 800 to 999 will be restricted to graduate I students, and those from 900 to 999 will be for graduate II students. doctoral candidates.
Courses designed mainly for graduate I students but also open to some undergraduates will be numbered from 700 to 799.
Kelly said he thought the new system would simplify the course numbering plan.
*The entire system will be cleaner and much cleaner once it is implemented. We
The $19,100 grant will be used to improve laboratory teaching in Biochemistry 151 and 152.
A radical increase in biochemistry enrollment has prompted the National Science Foundation to establish a matching program for undergraduate scientific equipment.
Grant-in-Aid Given Prof
Grant to Improve KU Lab Teaching
David Katzman, associate professor of history, has recently received grants-in-aid from the American Council of Learned Societies. Katzman is one of 168 recipients using postdoctoral research in the humanities and related social sciences.
have worked tremendously on it for the last year," said Kelly.
Kelly said that members of his office and the office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs were the major KU faculty in the department. A new development of the numbering plan.
"But the student will probably never see a course's entire identification number," Kelly said. The three digits of the course number are used in an 11-digit classification for every course.
Next will follow the three digits of the course number.
The first three digits will be used specifically for the University, the first one identifying the school and the second and third the department.
The situation will be reversed for the spring semester, with the old numbers included in the timetable but the new numbers used for enrollment.
One purpose of the new system is to facilitate student transfers among the schools as well as future Board of Regents for the course changes and improvements.
The new course numbers have been included in the 1973/74 catalogue and in the fall timetable, but the old numbers are being used for enrollment.
The last five digits will identify the course according to a Health, Education and Welfare Department taxonomy. KU has been required to identify courses by this
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nation-wide classification since 1970.
nation-wide classification since 1970. Although these additional numbers are not included in any student information, they are programmed into the University computer for reports to the State Department of Education and to HEW.
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