{"id":309,"date":"2019-09-06T16:06:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/faculty-handbook\/?page_id=309"},"modified":"2019-09-06T16:06:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:06:59","slug":"course-level-definitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/faculty-handbook\/curriculum-and-academic-standards\/course-level-definitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Level Definitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>100-level: <\/strong>Course with no prerequisites, survey courses, course defining basic concepts, or a course presenting the terminology of a discipline.\u00a0 These courses may require skills measured by university entry requirements for writing, math and\/or the discipline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>200-level: <\/strong>Course of intermediate college-level difficulty, course with 100-level course(s) as prerequisite(s) or survey courses devoted to particular areas or fields within a discipline.\u00a0 These courses may require skills obtained by first-year experience and writing intensive competencies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>300-level: <\/strong>Course of advanced college-level difficulty taken by majors and\/or upper division students.\u00a0 These are often considered to be courses in the major, or offered to students with sufficient skill and expertise to find success through completion of a major creative, experimental or research project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>400-level: <\/strong>Advanced upper-division courses, seminars or tutorials designed as culminating experiences where students have the capacity to work independently, while under the guidance of an instructor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Senate Approval: May 18, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Admin. Approval: May 19, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100-level: Course with no prerequisites, survey courses, course defining basic concepts, or a course presenting the terminology of a discipline.\u00a0 These courses may require skills measured by university entry requirements for writing, math and\/or the discipline. 200-level: Course of intermediate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"parent":305,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-309","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/faculty-handbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/faculty-handbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/faculty-handbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/faculty-handbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/faculty-handbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/faculty-handbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/309\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/faculty-handbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/faculty-handbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}