4 2A - Wednesday, November 28, 2007 W MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Arbor Anecdotes ExplainedBefore You Were Here FRIDAY: The Extremist ROSE REMEMBRANCE It's pretty random Course enrollment appointments are finally here, and students are scrambling to create their ideal schedules. But browsing through the course catalog sometimes feels like trying to decode a cryptic mes- sage. So how exactly does Introduction to World Politics become PoliSci 160? Esrold Nurse, assistant dean of Student Academic Affairs in LSA, said there's no rhyme or reason to course numbering aside from the fact that 100 and 200 level courses are introductory and higher-level courses are more advanced. "Generally, courses numbered 100-199 are considered to be intro- ductory courses and courses from 200-299 are considered interme- diate and courses from 300-499 are considered upper level," Nurse said. CRIME NOTES Fire C extinguisher b taken from dorm s1 WHERE: West Quad W WHEN: Monday at about 10:30 St. a.m. W WHAT: A fire extinguisher a.n was stolen from West Quad W the Department of Public in Safety reported. A West Quad re facilities employee reported fil the theft. Police have no sus- re pects. w Graffiti found T in USB s WHERE: Undergraduate Sci- i ence Building WHEN: Monday at about 8:50 W a.m. de WHAT: "Clock" was found W written in marker in the pent- a.: house of the Undergraduate W Science Building, DPS report- wi ed. The graffiti was reported th by a University staff member. stc Police have no suspects. it1 Nurse said that though this is a general rule, course numbers some- times vary because departments are responsible for determining their own numbering structure. "Some departments have intro- ductory courses at the 200 level, like American Culture or History, as well as 100 level courses," she said. But how do professors decide which classes will be more advanced? Nurse said courses with higher numbers typically have fewer stu- dents, a more narrow focus and require students to analyze topics more closely. For example, Nurse said there's a difference between CompLit 122 and CompLit 140. "An introductory course with a higher number is not higher level in the sense that it's not introductory," he said. "It's higher level in that CA] ar crashes into Do rick wall in scr tructure WH Grace HERE: Palmer Drive Parking follov ructure Grace HEN: Monday at about 10:50 types m. WHC HAT: A car hit a brick wall ciatio a parking structure, DPS WHE ported. A passerby unaf- WHE iated with the University ported the accident. No one as injured. Spy Chief tries to use rel tolen debit card art n Markley WHA Winn: HERE: Mary Markley Resi- about nce Hall avera HEN: Monday at about 1:20 role ii M. WHC HAT: A male unaffiliated versit ith the University reported the S at his credit card had been and D olen, DPS reported, and that WHE load been used in Markley. WHH theat: it will have more of a focus and be more in-depth." To enroll in many higher-level courses, students need prerequi- sites, which are usually introduc- tory courses. However, there are exceptions. "A course might be focused so narrowly that a prerequisite, though helpful, doesn't mean that you can't do it," Nurse said. Even though course-numbering structures vary by college, Nurse said LSA's way of choosing course numbers is pretty standard. "You're not going to find a 400- level course at any institution that a first-year student would be recom- mended to take," he said. JILLIANBERMAN Have a campus mystery that you want the Daily to solve? E-mail hchris@umich.edu. MPUS EVENTS & NOTES A Cuban medical student holds red roses during a march markint the 136th annoversary of the execution of eight medicine students by the Spanish colonial govern- ment in Havana. 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I 0 4 cumentary 'eening AT: A screening of "The Lee Project," which wed five women named Lee to expose stereo- about Asian women D: Korean Student Asso- n N: Today at 8 p.m. RE: 1401 Mason Hall eech on the evance of is in society AT: A talk by award- ing actor Eric Booth 'how to interest the ge person in art and its n communities D: Arts Enterprise, Uni- y Musical Society and chool of Music, Theatre Dance N: Today at 5:30 p.m. RE: Rackham Amphi- AIDS movie screening WHAT: A free screening of "Out of Control: AIDS in Black America," a film that details the AIDS epidemic and how it affects America's black population. A discus- sion will follow the film. WHO: Office of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Affairs WHEN: Today at 12:30 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union Ballroom Folk singer at The Ark WHAT: A performance by folk singer Loudon Wain- wright WHO: The Ark WHEN: Today at 8 p.m. WHERE: 316S. Main St CORRECTIONS. " Please report any error in the Daily to correc- tions@michigandaily.com. Iceland is the world's best countryto livein, according to a United Nations study ranking countries according to wealth, life expectancy and education levels. Sierra Leone is the worst, according to the study. The United States is 12th. A reverend in White- wood, S.D., is pressuring the City Council there to change the name of a street because it does not lend itself to a family-oriented atmosphere, The Associated Press reported. The street, Hooker Street, was named for Civil War general Joseph Hooker. Genetic evidence supports the theory that North America was settled by people who crossed a land bridge across the Bering Strait, according to a University study released yesterday. I I JONATHAN D. JANSEN 40 4 a Jonathan D. Jansen is the immediate past and first black dean of education at the University of Pretoria in South Africa; he has written about these experiences in Black Dean (Harvard Educational Review, Fall 2005). At present he is Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University where he is completing a book on The Politics of Memory in South Africa, examining how white South African students remember and enact the past. His recent books include patterns of desegregation in white working class schools (with Saloshna Vandeyar, University Press of America, 2008) and on second thoughts, a collection of writings (2007, Actua Press) on the transition to democracy after apartheid. 0 SCHOOL O EDUCAJION Ui_ NIVERSI'FY OF MICHIGAN OFFICE 01 I iiPRESIDENT -6a