Course code: ACT B415
Subject: ACT represents the subject Accounting
Number (composed of one letter and three numbers):
The letter indicates the School offering the course:
A: School of Arts and Social Sciences
B: Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration
E: School of Education and Languages
N: School of Nursing and Health Studies
S: School of Sciences and Technology
The 1st number signifies the level of the subject:
0* or 1: Pre-foundation/Foundation level
2: Middle level
3 or 4:Higher level
8 or 9: Postgraduate level
The 2nd and 3rd numbers are serial numbers assigned to the course which may be different from the current course code.
In this example, B represents the offering School is Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration, and the first number, 4, indicates that the course is a Higher (Honours) level course.
A course code with a suffix 'C' indicates that Chinese is used as the medium of instruction; a course code with a suffix 'B' indicates that the course is bilingual; all others (i.e. those without a suffix 'C' or 'B') are in English. A course code with a suffix 'F' indicates that the course is delivered mainly in the face-to-face mode.
*Some courses have no credit value attached to them. The course code of these courses also starts with '0'.