Lamar State College-Orange uses the state approved Common Course Numbering System for all academic courses. Each academic course has a letter code and/or numerical code. The letters are an abbreviation for the subject. For example, ENGL indicates an English course. Most courses meet three hours each week and have a credit value of three semester hours. Each number contains three or more figures:

• The first number indicates the rank of the course: 1, freshman level; 2, sophomore level.
• The second number indicates the number of semester hours of credit.
• The last number(s) indicates the order in which the course normally is taken.

Applied music courses are numbered so the second number indicates both semester hours of credit and number of private lessons each week.