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Posted on May 1st, 2023 in by Elizabeth W. Thill

People / Units

IOR = instructor of record

D/P = department / program

PD = program director

UCSC = Undergraduate Curriculum and Standards Committee

Schedule

Meeting Pattern (MP) = the dates + time + location that a given class will meet over the semester

f2f / IP = face to face / in person / not online

OA = online asynchronous format/MP. No synchronous components can be required.

Combined / Cross-listed = see below

Semesters

IU uses an (at first baffling and then pretty clever) 4 digit code to reference semesters:

4208 = 4120283 = Fall 2020

  1. Century (not particularly useful)
  2. Last 2 digits of year
  3. Indicates semester according to the following key, which, while I’m not sure how they arrived at those particular numbers, does order the academic year nicely:
    • 2 = Spring
    • 5 = Summer I/II
    • 8 = Fall