Course Numbering
Undergraduate Lower-Level Courses-100’s
These are courses with no prerequisites which are taken during the freshman year. These courses introduce students to the field at large, including common terms and specialized languages in the field, central strategies and methods of investigation in the field, and/or basic facts and concepts within the field.
Undergraduate Lower-Level Courses-200’s
These courses are taken during the freshman or sophomore years and have no prerequisites but expect that the student has some college experience. Students are introduced to content within the field or sub-fields, including post-introductory-level language, methods, and concepts (to build off 100-level); the application of concepts and methods within a major area of the field (surveys); beginning research skills; critical thinking about the field and how it works.
Undergraduate Intermediate-Level Courses-300’s
These courses are taken during the sophomore or junior years and are usually first within a professional/pre-professional sequence. Students explore problems, topics, or techniques within the field and emphasize the application of basic skills to explore these topics and problems. “Student-as-Practitioner” strategies are used within the classroom, including research and the exploration of research methods. May include: an examination of problems and debates within the professional field; engagement in those debates and in that study; initial participation within the field of scholars/professionals; and/or instruction based on modeling, case studies, and mentoring.
Undergraduate Upper-Level Courses-400’s
Courses normally taken during the junior and senior years provide the undergraduate “capstone” experience in the major. These courses intensely explore specialized content (e.g., reading-intensive courses), require students to create or synthesize knowledge using previously learned skills. Provides students authentic “Student-as-Practitioner” experiences; specialized, independent thinking within the field; vocational training (internships); and/or independent research.
Dual-Level Graduate Courses-500’s
Offered for both undergraduate and graduate students, providing the undergraduate student is pursuant to the appropriate major. If completed as an undergraduate student, nine (9) semester hours may be transferred to the Lakeland graduate degree program and satisfy requirements at both levels.
Graduate Level Courses-600’s, 700’s, 800’s
These graduate courses are offered across all of Lakeland University’s graduate programs.
Semester Hour Definition
- Lakeland’s academic policies all assume that the basic credit unit is the semester hour, as defined by standard Carnegie units.
- One Lakeland semester hour is equivalent to 1.5-quarter hours.
- Unless designated otherwise, all Lakeland courses carry three semester hours of credit.
- A semester hour represents one hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a minimum of two hours of out-of-class student work each week, for fifteen weeks, or an equivalent number of hours worked over a different span of time, or the equivalent number of hours worked during other activities established by the University including but not limited to internships, practica, research studies, cooperative placements and other academic work leading toward the awarding of semester hours.
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