Course Restrictions, Prerequisites and Co-Requisites
Enrollment in some courses may be restricted. For example, a course may be restricted to students with a specific major or require that a student have Junior or Senior level standing. An instructor’s approval may be required in some cases. These are referred to as “course restrictions”.
A program of study may also require that courses be taken in a certain order or taken together. A course that is required to be taken before another course is called a “prerequisite”. Students are not allowed to register for a course with a prerequisite unless the prerequisite course has been completed with a passing grade.
A “co-requisite” is a course that is designed to be taken together with another course.
- A co-requisite course may be satisfied if the student has previously completed it with a passing grade.
- Students may not drop a course if it is a co-requisite of another course in their schedule. In this case, both courses would have to be dropped.
- If a student repeats a co-requisite course in which the student earned a grade of C- or lower, the companion course (if passed) does not have to be repeated.