Terms and Sections

For SIS classes, there are three primary terms, and several special terms that are deprecated or will soon be deprecated.

The numeric descriptor in UAConnect is a 4 digit number, starting with “1”, followed by a two-digit year, and ending with the term number (Examples: 2009 = 1093; 2010 = 1103).

1. January Intersession (1XX1) [Deprecated]
2. Spring Self-Paced Online Courses (SPOC) (1XX2) [Deprecated after Fall 2023]
3. Spring (1xx3)
4. May Intersession (1XX4) [Deprecated]
5. Summer Self-Paced Online Courses (SPOC) (1XX5)[Deprecated after Fall 2023]
6. Summer (1xx6)
7. August Intersession (1XX7)[Deprecated]
8. Fall Self-Paced Online Courses (SPOC) (1XX8)[Deprecated after Fall 2023]
9. Fall (1xx9)

Each term may also include some 8 week sessions. Section numbers for on-campus courses are 3 digits, most often beginning with a “0”:  001, 002, 011, etc. Section numbers for online courses are 3 digits, beginning with a “9”:  901, 902, 911, etc.

Operations Management

Some Engineering and Operations Management courses are based on five 8-week terms.

• Fall includes Terms 1 & 2
• Spring includes Terms 3 & 4
• Summer includes Term 5

The section numbering are three digits, beginning with a “9”, followed by the term, and ending with a digit designating the student’s location.

• 91x, 92x, 93x, 94x, 95x, etc
• Note: some sections begin with “1” (these tend to be on-campus course offerings)

Global Campus Courses

Off-campus sections begin with “9”, and follow the same terms as on-campus courses.

Independent Study/Self-Paced (SPOC) Sections begin with “8”:

• 810
• 820
• 830
• 840
• …

Independent Study Terms:

• Numeric designation = (On-Campus Term Number) – 1
• Fall = 1xx8
• Spring = 1xx2
• Summer = 1xx5

The SPOC program will end-of-life after Fall 2023.