Preference Submission
All students are given the opportunity to submit preferences for their Words and Numbers section to be used in their placement. Each semester of your first year you will take a Words or Numbers course with the CORE course name (Core 120 for Words, Core 121 for Numbers). If you are placed into Words in the fall, then you will take Numbers in the spring (and vice-versa).
Incoming transfer students do not take Words or Numbers.
Fall 2025 Words and Numbers section descriptions will be available by late May at the links below:
Fall 2025 Words (Core 120) Section Descriptions
Fall 2025 Numbers (Core 121) Section Descriptions
The preference form will be open June 1-29th. Students who don’t submit preferences by the deadline will be assigned to a seat in an open section.
Placements will be emailed in early July.
Please email GenEd@lclark.edu if you have any questions.
Words and Numbers is located in room 404 of Miller Center on the Undergraduate Campus.
MSC: 83
email GenEd@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7208
Director: Kundai Chirindo
Admin: Dawn Wilson
Words and Numbers
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road
Portland OR 97219