The unit of instructional time, amounting to 50 minutes traditionally. At the Tacoma campus courses are scheduled in longer time blocks that are multiples of the class hour. The total number of credit hours a student takes in one quarter. Also called course load or academic load . The freshman and sophomore level, or first two years, of college courses.
Community colleges offer only lower-division courses.
The academic program which a student selects for his or her primary focus of study. Matriculated Enrollment status for students who are officially working on the completion of a degree. At the Tacoma campus matriculated students are those who have been admitted to a specific degree program or as pre-professional students. At the Tacoma campus nonmatriculated students are those who have not been admitted to a degree program, have been admitted on a trial or probationary basis, or have been permitted to register in selected courses with no assurance of continuing enrollment. Normally this status is available only when the academic programs are not fully enrolled with matriculated students.