Prerequisites, Corequisites and Departmental Recommendations
When registering for classes, students are required to adhere to enrollment policies that relate to prerequisites, corequisites and departmental recommendations.
- A prerequisite means a condition of enrollment students are required to meet in order to demonstrate readiness for enrollment in a course or educational program. Students registered in a class without having completed the prerequisite(s) may be dropped from the class. Prerequisite courses completed with a grade of D or F indicate unsatisfactory performance in those courses and do not satisfy the prerequisite.
- A corequisite means a condition of enrollment consisting of a course a student is required to take simultaneously in order to enroll in another course.
- A departmental recommendation means a condition of enrollment a student is advised, but not required, to meet before or in conjunction with enrollment in a course or education program.
Students will not be allowed to enroll in a prerequisite course taken after the higher level course, except by Petition for Academic Exception.
Prerequisite/Corequisite Challenge Process
Any prerequisite or corequisite may be challenged by a student on one or more of the grounds listed below. The student shall bear the initial burden of showing grounds exist for the challenge. Challenges shall be resolved in a timely manner and, if the challenge is upheld, the student shall be permitted to enroll in the course in question. Grounds for challenge are:
- The prerequisite or corequisite has not been established in accordance with the district’s process for establishing prerequisites and corequisites;
- The prerequisite or corequisite is in violation of Title 5 of the Education Code;
- The prerequisite or corequisite is either unlawfully discriminatory or is being applied in an unlawfully discriminatory manner;
- The student has the knowledge or ability to succeed in the course or program despite not meeting the prerequisite or corequisite;
- The student will be subject to undue delay in attaining the goal of his or her Student Educational Plan because the prerequisite or corequisite course has not been made reasonably available;
- The student seeks to enroll and has not been allowed to enroll due to a limitation on enrollment established for a course that involves intercollegiate competition or public performance, or enrollment in one or more of the courses has been limited to a cohort of students. The student shall be allowed to enroll in such a course if otherwise he or she would be delayed by a semester or more in attaining the degree or certificate specified in his or her Student Educational Plan;
- The student seeks to enroll in a course which has a prerequisite established to protect students’ health and safety, and the student demonstrates that he or she does not pose a threat to himself or herself or others.
For more information, visit the Counseling Center SSB-201 or call (909) 389-3366.