Penn course search that keeps up with you

Instant, because it is local

The catalog is prepared overnight and loaded into your browser, so searching does not wait on a network round trip. The search page shows when the data was last refreshed.

What you can search by

Course code, words in the title, department, instructor name (shortened to "prof" in the box), term, and attribute.

• Attributes: the codes behind general education and school requirements, grouped by school, with Penn's description of each.
• Terms: the upcoming registration term and past terms, so you can see when a course usually runs.

What a course shows

Click a course title to open it where it is.

• Description and credit units.
• Every section: lecture, lab and recitation, with days, times, room and instructor, and whether it is open.
• Instructor quality, course quality, difficulty and work required from past terms, per instructor.
• When it has been offered before, so you can judge whether it will run in a later semester.
• An Ask button that starts a chat about that course.

Where the numbers come from

Section and rating data comes from Penn Course Plan, whose ratings are drawn from Penn Course Review. QuakerPlan is an independent student project and is not affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania.