Help with timetable terms

Sessions

The UTS academic calendar is made up of teaching sessions. The main teaching sessions are Autumn, Spring and Summer. Short teaching sessions commence January through to December. For more information visit the UTS Handbook academic calendar.

The main teaching session codes are:

  • AUT - Autumn session
  • SPR - Spring session
  • SUM - Summer session

Graduate School of Health (Calendar B) main teaching session codes are:

  • AUB - Autumn B session
  • SPB - Spring B session

Health UG (Calendar C) main teaching session codes are:

  • AUC - Autumn C session
  • SPC - Spring C session

Education UG and PG (Calendar D) main teaching session codes are:

  • AUD - Autumn D session
  • SPD - Spring D session

Calendars B, C and D are only used for selected courses.

The short teaching session codes are:

  • JAN - January session
  • FEB - February session
  • MAR - March session
  • APR - April session
  • MAY - May session
  • JUN - June session
  • JUL - July session
  • AUG - August session
  • SEP - September session
  • OCT - October session
  • NOV - November session
  • DEC - December session

The PG Online session codes are:

  • SE1 – Session 1
  • SE2 – Session 2
  • SE3 – Session 3
  • SE4 – Session 4
  • SE5 – Session 5
  • SE6 – Session 6

Campuses

UTS has one main campus at Ultimo and another campus at Moore Park. The University also delivers programmes to students at locations outside Australia through cooperation with international partners. These locations are known as offshore campuses.

The campus codes are:

  • U - Ultimo/City campus
  • CN - China/Shanghai (offshore)
  • HK - Hong Kong (offshore)
  • MP - Moore Park precinct
  • UO - Online

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Class location

At UTS we use a location code to identify every room on campus. Location codes consist of building, level and room numbers: 

UTS location code key

To help find your destination:

For more details, check out our campus information or resources for getting around campus.

Study attendance mode

Subjects can be taught in different ways which determine whether you attend on campus, intensively (block mode) or online.  

For each subject, teaching period and campus location, one or more attendance modes may be available:

  • S - Standard attendance mode involves attendance at weekly, on-campus classes, over a session
  • B - Block mode involves an intensive period of study, in classes scheduled over one or more weeks of the teaching period
  • D - Distance (off-campus) mode students are provided with materials that they work through in their own time, supported by online and print materials and possibly one or two face-to-face sessions
  • O - Offshore mode subjects are offered at a campus outside of Australia
  • OL - Online mode subject offered only for PG Online courses

The attendance mode is listed in every subject code as a letter at the end.  For example: 

  • 21655_AUT_U_1_S is Standard attendance mode
  • 92607_SPR_U_1_B is Block attendance mode

Activities

For each subject at UTS one or more activities, or class types, may be required.

The activity codes are:

  • BCP - Bootcamp
  • BRK - Breakout
  • CNR - Class Not Required
  • CMP - Computer Lab
  • DRP - Drop in
  • INT - Introductory Activity
  • LAB - Laboratory
  • LDT - Language Development Tutorial
  • LEC - Lecture
  • PRC - Practical or Practicum session
  • SEM - Seminar
  • STU - Studio
  • TUT - Tutorial
  • UPS - U:PASS session
  • WRK - Workshop
Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.