Course Listings

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 requirements GE23. 

Banner codes are used to identify which General Education 2023 requirement(s) a course fulfills. The GE23 codes are as follows:

Code IF Requirement Area
AH23 U.S. History and Civic Engagement
AR23 The Arts
BC23 Communication - Written and Oral
DI23 Diversity: Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice
GA23 World History and Global Awareness
HU23 Humanities
MQ23 Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning
NS23 Natural Sciences and Scientific Reasoning
SS23 Social Science
WL23 Worl Language
RE23 Critical Thinking and Reasoning
IN23 Information Literacy

Here’s a sample course listing:

ANT 300 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA 3, 3/0; DI14, NW14

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North America; reconstructing life during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries using archaeology, historical documents, and oral tradition.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 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA 3, 3/0, DI14, NW14

This is an anthropology course, number 300.

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

This course satisfies two requirements in Intellectual Foundations 14: Diversity (DI14) and the Foundations of Civilizations Non-Western Civilizations (NW14).

Prerequisites:  Prerequisites or requirements you must fulfill before registering for a course. For this course, students must have taken ANT 100 first.

The remainder of the course listing describes the subject matter.


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