Academic Timetable
The timetable is the schedule of courses offered in a given academic year. You can use the timetable to
- choose those courses required for your program
- choose your electives
- develop your course schedule
Understanding the Timetable
Reading the timetable for the first time can be challenging. Here is what you will see when you search for a course.
BUSI is the subject area, or discipline. Disciplines are grouped by faculty - Arts, Science, and Professional Studies.
1013 is the departmental course number made up of...
- the first number represents the year in which a course is usually taken
- the fourth number represents the number of credit hours a course has.
- A ‘3’ is used for 3 credit-hour courses
- A ‘6’ is used for 6 credit-hour courses
- KINESIOLOGY activity courses have a value of 1.5 credit hours. The fourth value for these courses contains a letter, e.g. KINE 185A.
- An L at the end of the four numbers represents a lab.
A1 is the section and term.
The letter (A, B, C, etc.) represents the section.
- More than one letter means that there are other sections available.
- X means that only one section is available.
The number represents the term.
- 1 first term (September to December)
- 2 second term (January to April)
- 3 intersession/spring & summer (May to August)
- 0 full year (September to April)
- There are occasionally courses that are 3 credit hours which are taught all year – watch for them – they affect the number of credit-hours in which you are enrolled.)