Course Identifiers

Courses are identified by a four-letter subject code and a three-digit number. The four letters represent either a school or a subject area. The first digit represents the level of the course. The 000-level range is used for pre-degree level courses; 100-level courses are first-year or introductory courses; 200-level and 300-level courses represent advanced-level undergraduate courses; Honours and Masters courses are 400- and 500-level; PhD courses are 600-level; and the 800-level range is used for Diploma courses.

Index of Codes for Courses and Major Subjects

Where possible, the subject name has been linked to a page on the Victoria University website giving more information on this subject.

Code Subject
ACCY Accounting
AHTY Architecture History and Theory
ALIN Applied Linguistics (see Second Language Education)
APHS Applied Physics
APST Applied Statistics (see Statistics and Applied Statistics)
ARCI Architecture
ARTH Art History
ASIA Asian Studies
BILD Building Science
BIOL Biology
BITT Information Technology
BMAR Marine Biology
BMSC Biomedical Science
BTEC Biotechnology
CBIO Cell and Molecular Bioscience
CCDN Culture+Context (Design Innovation)
CHEM Chemistry
CHIN Chinese
CLAS Classics (see Classical Studies, Greek and Latin)
CLNR Clinical Research
CMAR  Marine Conservation
CMPG Computing (as major)
CMPO Music Composition (see Music)
COML Commercial Law
COMM Communications
COMP Computer Science
CONB Conservation Biology
CPSY Cross Cultural Psychology
CREA Creative Writing (as major)
CREW Creative Writing
CRIM Criminology
CSEN Electronic Computer Systems Engineering
CUAN Cultural Anthropology
DEAF Deaf Studies
DESN Design
DEVE Development Studies
DSDN Design Innovation
EBIO Ecology and Biodiversity
ECEN Electronic and Computer Systems Engineering
ECME Econometrics (as major)
ECMM e-Commerce (as major)
ECON Economics
EDUC Education
EDPS Education and Psychology (as major)
ELCM e-Commerce
ELCO Electronic and Computer Systems
ELEN Electronic and Computer Systems Engineering
ELIN English as Second Language
ENGL English Literature
ENGR Engineering
ENSC Environmental Science
ENST  English Studies 
ENVI Environmental Studies
EPOL Education Policy and Implementation
EPSY Educational Psychology and Pedagogy
ERES Ecological Restoration
ESCI Earth Sciences
ETHM Ethnomusicology (see Music)
EURO European Studies
FILM Film
FINA Finance
FREN French
GEOG Geography
GEOL Geology
GERM German
GISC Geographic Information System and Science
GPHS Geophysics
GREE Greek (see Classical Studies, Greek and Latin)
HEAL Health (see Nursing, Midwifery and Health)
HIST History
HLIT History and Literature of Western Music (see Music)
HLTH Health (see Nursing, Midwifery and Health)
HMSC Heritage Materials Science
HRIR Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations
IBUS International Business
INDN Industrial Design (Design Innovation)
INFO Information Management
INFO  Information Studies 
INST  Information Systems
INTA Interior Architecture
INTP International Relations (see Political Science and International Relations)
ITAL Italian
JAPA Japanese
KURA Education Maori Pasifika and Indigenous
LAND Landscape Architecture
LANG Modern Language Studies
LATI Latin (see Classical Studies, Greek and Latin)
LAWS Law
LIBR Library and Information Studies
LING Linguistics
MAOR Maori Studies
MAPP Public Policy
MARI  Marine Biology 
MARK Marketing
MATH Mathematics
MBIO Molecular Microbiology
MBUS Maori Business
MDDN Media Design (Design Innovation)
MDIA Media Studies
MGMT Management
MHST Museum and Heritage Studies
MIDW Midwifery (see Nursing, Midwifery and Health)
MMPM Public Management
MUSI Music
MWIF Midwifery (see Nursing, Midwifery and Health)
NURS Nursing (see Nursing, Midwifery and Health)
NWEN Network Engineering
NZST New Zealand Studies
OPRE Operations Research
PASI Pacific Studies
PGEO Petroleum Geoscience
PHIL Philosophy
PHYG Physical Geography
PHYS Physics
POLS Political Science (see Political Science and Industrial Relations)
PSYC Psychology
PUBL Public Policy
QUAN Econometrics
RELI Religious Studies
SAMO Samoan Studies
SLED Second Language Education
SOSC  Sociology 
SPAN Spanish
SPOL Social Policy
SSRE  Social Science Research 
STAT Statistics (see Statistics and Applied Statistics)
STRA Strategic Studies
SWEN Software Engineering
TAXN Taxation
TCEC Teaching Early Childhood
TCPR Teaching Primary
TCPS Teaching Primary and Secondary
TCSC Teaching Secondary
TCHG Teaching
TEAC Teaching
TEAP Teaching Practice
THEA Theatre
THFI Theatre and Film (see Theatre and Film)
TXTT Text Technologies
TOUR Tourism
WRIT Writing