Texas Common Course Numbering System

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To help students transfer credit from one institution to another, Texas community colleges employ a statewide numbering system for their courses. The Texas Common Course Numbering system (TCCN) is a standard set of four-character abbreviations for academic disciplines and four-digit course numbers. The first digit of the number represents the academic level of the course (0 for subfreshman, 1 for freshman, and 2 for sophomore); the second represents the semester credit hour value of the course. Texas public universities, and some private ones, cross-reference their courses with TCCN.

Listed below are TCCN course designations and their University transfer credit evaluations. In the University's three-digit numbering system, the first digit indicates the semester credit hour value of the course. The suffixes A and B indicate the first and second parts of a course; credit for each part is half the value indicated by the first digit.

1 : This is a modified course number with a higher credit value than is normally offered at the University. The higher value does not affect the course's prerequisite or degree applicability.

2 : Lower-division biology courses may transfer as generic credit, without a specific University course number. The terms "Frmn" and "Soph" identify freshman- and sophomore-level lecture credit. "Lab" identifies lower-division laboratory credit. For students in the School of Biological Sciences, such credit is applicable toward prerequisite and degree requirements only with department approval. For students in other degree plans that require specific biology courses, such credit is applicable only with the approval of the student's academic dean. Introductory major-track lecture credit (TCCN BIOL 1406, 1407, 1306, or 1307) generally transfers as Biology 311C and 311D. Major-track laboratory credit (TCCN BIOL 1106, 1107, or the lab components of 1406 and 1407) generally transfers with the modified course numbers BIO 206LA and 206LB.

Nonmajor lecture credit (TCCN BIOL 1408, 1409, 1308, or 1309) generally transfers as [Biology 302E](https://catalog.utexas.edu/search/?P=BIO%20302E "BIO 302E") and [302D](https://catalog.utexas.edu/search/?P=BIO%20302D "BIO 302D"). Nonmajor laboratory credit (TCCN BIOL 1108, 1109, or the lab components of 1408 and 1409) transfers generically, because the University does not offer nonmajor lab courses.

3 : This is a modified course number with a lower credit value than is normally offered at the University. In many cases, such transfer credit may be counted toward prerequisite or degree requirements in place of the higher-value University course; however, such substitution is at the discretion of the student's academic dean.

4 : This is a course no longer offered at the University but still used in awarding transfer credit and still applicable toward certain degree requirements. For students in the School of Nursing, BIOL 2420, 2421, 2320, 2321, 2120, and 2121 transfer as retired Microbiology (MIC) courses.

5 : Texas community colleges do not offer direct equivalents of The University of Texas at Austin's Government 310L, 312L. or 312P. GOVT 2305+2306 together fulfill the core 070 requirement. Either GOVT 2305 or 2306 combines with Government 310L (but not with 312L or 312P) to fulfill the core 070 requirement.

6 : For School of Architecture students, ARCH 1311 transfers as generic architecture credit and Architecture 308 must be taken in residence.