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Course Prefixes

AAS	AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
AED	ART EDUCATION
ANT	ANTHROPOLOGY
ATS	ART THERAPY STUDIES
BIO	BIOLOGY
BME	BUSINESS AND MARKETING EDUCATION
BSC	INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS
BUS	BUSINESS
CHE	CHEMISTRY
CHI	CHINESE
CIS	COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS
COM	COMMUNICATION
CRJ	CRIMINAL JUSTICE
CRS	CREATIVE STUDIES
CTE	CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
CWP	COLLEGE WRITING PROGRAM
DAN	DANCE
DES	DESIGN
ECO	ECONOMICS
EDF	EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS
EDU	EDUCATION
ENG	ENGLISH
ENS	ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
ENT	ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY
EXE	EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATION
FAR	FINE ARTS
FIN	FINANCE
FLE	FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION
FOR	FORENSIC CHEMISTRY
FRE	FRENCH
FST	FOOD TECHNOLOGY
FTT	FASHION AND TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY
GEG	GEOGRAPHY
GER	GERMAN
GES	GEOSCIENCES
GRK	GREEK
GST	GLOBAL STUDIES
HEW	HEALTH AND WELLNESS
HIS	HISTORY
HON	HONORS
HPR	HEALTH AND PHYSICAL RECREATION
HTR	HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM
HUM	HUMANITIES
IDE	INTERIOR DESIGN
INS	INDIVIDUALIZED STUDIES
ITA	ITALIAN
LAT	LATIN
LIB	LIBRARY RESEARCH
MAT	MATHEMATICS
MED	MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
MCL	MODERN AND CLASSICAL LANGUAGES
MST	MUSEUM STUDIES
MUS	MUSIC
NFS	NUTRITION AND FOOD SCIENCE
PHI	PHILOSOPHY
PHY	PHYSICS
PLN	PLANNING
PSC	POLITICAL SCIENCE
PSY	PSYCHOLOGY
REL	RELIGIOUS STUDIES
SAF	SAFETY STUDIES
SCI	GENERAL SCIENCE
SED	SCIENCE EDUCATION
SLP	SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
SOC	SOCIOLOGY
SPA	SPANISH
SPC	SPEECH COMMUNICATION
SSE/SST	SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION
SWA	SWAHILI
SWK	SOCIAL WORK
TEC	TECHNOLOGY
TED	TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION
THA	THEATER ARTS
TFA	TELEVISION AND FILM ARTS
UNC	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

Course Coding System

At the time of the printing of this catalog, all incoming students at Buffalo State College, both first-year and transfer students, are required to fulfill Intellectual Foundations requirements. Students starting their education before fall 2006 are required to fulfill general education (GE2K) requirements via petition and should consult their department adviser about whether that would be advantageous. See page 00 of this catalog for more information.

Banner codes are used to identify which Intellectual Foundations requirement(s) a course fulfills. The Intellectual Foundations codes are as follows:

AHIF	=	Foundations of Civilizations: American History
ARIF	=	Cognate Foundation: Arts
BWIF	=	Basic Writing
DIIF	=	Diversity
FLIF	=	Foreign Language
HUIF	=	Cognate Foundations: Humanities
MQIF	=	Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning
NSIF	=	Cognate Foundations: Natural Sciences
NWIF	=	Foundations of Civilizations: Non-Western Civilizations
OCIF	=	Basic Oral Communication
SSIF	=	Cognate Foundations: Social Sciences
TSIF	=	Technology and Society
WCIF	=	Foundations of Civilizations: Western Civilization

Here’s a sample course listing:

ANT 300
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA
3, 3/0; DIIF, NWIF

Prerequisite: ANT 100 or permission of instructor. Way of life of the original inhabitants of Western North America; reconstructing life during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries using archaeology, historical documents, and oral tradition. Tribal nations of the Plains, Northwest Coast, Southwest, Great Basin, Plateau, and California. Effects of European exploration and colonization and the persistence of indigenous Western North American peoples in the modern world.

Here’s what it means:

ANT 300

This is an anthropology course, number 300.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA

Name of course.

3, 3/0

Number of semester credit hours the course earns, Number of lecture hours the class meets per week/Number of studio or lab hours per week.

DIIF, NWIF

This course satisfies two requirements in Intellectual Foundations: Diversity (DIIF) and the Foundations of Civilizations Non-Western Civilizations (NWIF).

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