A student is considered to be enrolled full time in a semester when the student has registered for 12 or more units as an undergraduate student or eight or more units as a graduate student. Units taken for audit do not apply to enrollment status calculation. The university has also approved several exceptional courses which confer full-time enrollment status on the students enrolled in them. Verification of student enrollment status is provided by the Office of Academic Records and Registrar. All major and minor programs of study should be recorded in the Office of Academic Records and Registrar three semesters before the intended graduation date.
Many academic departments can also perform changes of major for their students.
They may have prerequisites or other limitations on enrollment and are usually intended for students who have some preparation, either in the specific discipline or more generally in academic study. They tend to concentrate more narrowly and intensively in scope than lower division courses in the same discipline. The lower case letters ab, abcd , etc. In such courses the a semester is usually prerequisite to the b semester, and so on. Courses designated g are available for general education credit.