At first glance it can be hard to unpack the shorthand used for courses at William & Mary. Here's an explanation. In the example above, note the Short Course Title "Worlds of Music." Sometimes there's ...

Course prefix (academic subject code) guidelines establish protocols for the approval and creation of prefixes for courses and disciplines maintained in the course catalog and in student records.

Academic subject codes, also known as prefixes, are four-letter abbreviations that appear before course numbers to identify the department offering the course (e.g., JRNL 5001 is offered by the ...

There are two ways that faculty may teach courses that are housed in another academic division: They may teach a cross-listed course. For example, a faculty member teaches a SOC/ATH course that draws ...