This Topic Index page provides links to and a brief description of a variety of Web resources with information about Penn State courses. The page is divided into two parts:

1. A short list of some key sources of course-related information along with a brief description of and link to each resource
   
   
2. A longer list of Quick Links to Course Information

Bachelor of Arts Requirements
Lists of courses that meet the foreign language, arts, humanities, natural sciences, quantification, social and behavioral sciences, second foreign language, and “other cultures” requirements for all Bachelor of Arts degrees

Entrance-to-College/Major Requirements
Requirements (including courses) that students must meet in order to enter any college or baccalaureate major at Penn State

Flexibility in General Education
Information about the specific courses that are required or recommended in each Penn State major for each of the seven General Education categories

General Education
An explanation of the components and structure of the General Education program along with lists of General Education courses and brief descriptions of each course

Recommended Academic Plans
Semester-by-semester suggested course schedules for most baccalaureate and associate degree majors at Penn State

Schedule of Courses
A searchable database of information about the courses being offered at each Penn State campus for the current and upcoming semester(s)/session(s), including Additional Search Criteria to find courses that meet specific criteria

University Bulletin (Undergraduate Degree Programs)
Penn State's official “college catalog”; the University Course Descriptions section provides an alphabetic list of undergraduate courses offered by the University along with a description of each course

Quick Links to Course Information

• 3-6-9 or 9-6-3 substitution (General Education)
• Abbreviations, uniformity of course
• Adding a course
• Administrative Course Cancellation
• Arts courses
  • Bachelor of Arts requirements
    
  • General Education
    
• Auditing a course
• Bachelor of Arts requirements
  • Arts
  • Foreign language
  • Humanities
  • Natural sciences
  • Other cultures
  • Quantification
  • Second foreign language
  • Social and behavioral sciences
• Cancelling a course (Administrative Course Cancellation)
• C-grade courses
• Class meeting times
• Common course numbers
• Concurrent courses
• Controlled courses
• Course abbreviations, uniformity of
• Course availability (Schedule of Courses)
• Course catalog (University Bulletin)
• Course characteristics (codes)
• Course codes
• Course controls
• Course delivery systems (Resident Instruction, Continuing Education, World Campus)
• Course Descriptions, University (University Bulletin)
• Course Drop Deadlines (eLion application)
• Course history (list of previous semesters that a course has been offered)
• Course numbering system
• Course numbers, common
• Course Preferences (eLion application)
• Course prerequisites
• Course repeat
• Course registration
• Course scheduling recommendations (Recommended Academic Plans)
• Course scheduling resources
• Course substitutions
• Course suffixes
• Course symbols
• Course transcript
• Courses required for graduation
  • Degree Audit (eLion application)
  • University Bulletin
• Cross-listed courses
• Disenrollment from a course
• Drop/add (course drop/add period)
• Dropping down in a sequence of courses
• English as a second language (ESL) courses
• English composition courses, scheduling
• Entrance-to-College/Major Requirements
• ESL (English as a second language) courses
• First day to schedule courses for next semester (Registration Timetable)
• First-Year Seminars
• Flexibility in General Education
• Foreign language courses
  • Bachelor of Arts requirements
  • Placement policy
  • Scheduling
• Frequently Asked Questions (Advising @ PSU)
• GAU (Global Awareness and Understanding) courses for Smeal majors
• General Education
• General Education courses
  • Arts
  • First-Year Seminars
  • Health and Physical Activity
  • Humanities
  • International Cultures
  • Natural Sciences
  • Quantification
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • United States Cultures
  • Writing Across the Curriculum
  • Writing/Speaking
• Global Awareness and Understanding (GAU) courses for Smeal majors
• Health and Physical Activity courses
• Historical Course Offering (list of previous semesters that a course has been offered)
• Humanities courses
  • Bachelor of Arts requirements
  • General Education
• Hybrid courses
• International Cultures (IL) (General Education)
  • Courses
  • Requirement
• Lab science courses
• Language courses
  • Bachelor of Arts requirements
  • Placement policy
  • Scheduling
• Late add
• Late course add
• Late course drop
• Late drop
• Meeting times, class
• Natural Sciences courses
  • Bachelor of Arts requirements
  • General Education
  • Lab science courses
• 9-6-3 substitution (General Education)
• Online courses (Web courses)
• Other Cultures courses (Bachelor of Arts requirements)
• Part-semester courses
• Prerequisite courses
• Quantification courses
  • Bachelor of Arts requirements
  • General Education
  • Scheduling
• Recommended Academic Plans
• Repeating a course
• Schedule of Courses
• Schedule Planning Resources
• Second foreign language courses (Bachelor of Arts requirements)
• Semester-by-semester plans (Recommended Academic Plans)
• Social and Behavioral Sciences courses
  • Bachelor of Arts requirements
  • General Education
• Substitutions, course
• Suffixes, course
• Suggested course schedules (Recommended Academic Plans)
• Summer session courses
• Syllabus, elements of a
• Symbols, course
• “Test” courses (courses to test interests/abilities)
• 3-6-9 substitution (General Education)
• Transfer Course Evaluation Guide
• Uniformity of course abbreviations
• United States Cultures (US) (General Education)
  • Courses
  • Requirement
• University Course Descriptions (University Bulletin)
• Visiting a course
• Web courses (online courses)
• Withdrawing from a course
  • Course drop
  • Late course drop
• Withdrawing from all courses (Withdrawal)
• World Campus courses
• Writing Across the Curriculum courses (General Education)
• Writing/Speaking courses (General Education)