UCI Schedule of Classes: Glossary (2024)

General Education Course-listing Option:

Starting Fall, 2008, candidates for a bachelor's degree at UC Irvinemust satisfy the General Education (GE) course requirement bytaking a specific number of courses in each of the followingcategories:

To see which courses satisfy a particular category, go to theScheduleof Classes and select a category in theGeneral Education pull down menu.

Refer to the UC Irvine's General Catalog for more information about the GeneralEducation requirements, in the Requirements for a Bachelor'sDegree section.

Prior to the Fall 2008 term, instead of the General Educationrequirements listed above, UC Irvine specified a set of requiredBreadth categories:

Because students enrolled before Fall 2008 have the option of satifyingeither the old Breadth requirements or the newer General Educationrequirements, the General Education pull-down menuin the Scheduleof Classes allows you to select from either set ofcategories.

Department Name:

The academic unit (i.e., "Physics", "Art History", etc.)that sponsors each course.

Note: The returned list of courses may be truncated if youspecify a large department unless you use some of the other criteriabelow to narrow the search (for instance, a Course Number,Course Code Range, upper or lower division for Course Level,or the Course Type).

Course Number or Range:

The department's designation for an approved course (e.g. ArtHistory 198, Social Ecology 10, French 1c).This field searches the database for the course numbers as listedin the UCI General Catalogue orWebSOC, theSchedule of Classes. You may list single coursenumbers or a course number range, such as 5-20.
Specifying a range or digits alone will show a match with any coursecontaining that number (for instance, "1" for the Chemistrydepartment might display classes matching Chemistry 1B, 1LB, 1C,and 1LC), while adding letters will only return an exact match(i.e., "1C" in the example above will only display Chemistry 1C).

Course Level:

This field allows you to limit the search to Lower Division (coursenumbers 1 through 99), Upper Division (course numbers 100 through 199),or Graduate/Professional courses (course numbers 200 and higher).This is an easy way to limit the number of courses returnedfor large departments.

Course Code or Range:

The 5-digit code representing a class in the printed Schedule ofClasses (e.g. 29001).

You may specify a list of single codes or a range of codes.For instance, the course code range 03000-06999 wouldallow a search across all departments in the School of the Arts.

Instructor:

This field searches the database for classes taught by a particular instructor.Enter the last name only, in upper or lower case.

• Hint: If the instructor's last name is short andmatches too many other last names (e.g., "frank" would return allinstructors named Frank, and also instructors namedFranke and Franklin), place a comma directlyafter the last name ("Frank," -- instead of -- "Frank")to exclude longer last names.

Modality:

Course Title Contains:

This field searches the database for course titles that contain theword you specify. For example, photo would matchcourses named BASIC PHOTOGRAPHY and ADV PHOTOfor the department of Studio Art.

Course Type:

This pull-down menu allows you to specify the class type you aresearching for:

This field provides an easy way to limit the number of courses returnedfor large departments.

Units:

The number of units (3, 4.5) approved for each class. Thisfield searches the database for courses with the number of units youspecify here.
• Use the key word VAR to list variable unit courses.

Days:

This field searches the database for classes offered on (but not limitedto) the days you specify. Entering 'W' will return all theclasses that have Wednesday as one of their meeting days.Entering 'MTu' will return classes that meet on both Mondayand Tuesday (and possibly other days of the week as well).

You can use any of the following abbreviations:

Start After:

This field restricts the search to courses that start on or after the time specified.

End Before:

This field restricts the search to courses that end by the time specified.

Maximum Capacity:

This input option limits your search to courses that have an enrollmentcapacity that matches your specification.

For example, "<21" (to denote less than 21)or ">200" (to denote more than 200).

Courses Full Option:

You can use this option to exclude courses that have reached theirmaximum capacity, or include the ones that still have roomon their Waiting List.

Electronic Add/Drop:

Clicking this check box limits the search to classes that areeligible for Electronic Add/Drop. Note that WebReg isnot available beyond the 2nd week of the term for most courses.

Web Font Size Percentage:

Use this option to adjust the font size in the results page.For example, 75 percent will make all characters 3/4normal size, while 150 percent will make them 50% larger.

• This option only works if JavaScript modeis enabled on your web browser.