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COURSE
PREREQUISITES, COREQUISITES, AND ADVISORIES
(RECOMMENDATIONS)
City College has established prerequisites, corequisites, and advisories
to maintain academic standards and ensure student success. The CCSF
Governing Board recognizes that if these requisites are established
unnecessarily or inappropriately, they constitute unjustifiable obstacles
to student access and success. Therefore, the San Francisco Community
College District, in compliance with Title V Matriculation Regulations,
has adopted a policy to provide for the establishment, review and enforcement
of prerequisites, corequisites, advisories on recommended preparation,
and certain limitations on enrollment in a manner consistent with law
and good practice. Elements of this policy follow:
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Prerequisite: A condition to enrollment
that a student is required to meet in order to demonstrate current readiness
for a course or educational program. If a prerequisite is a course,
a student must pass the prerequisite course with a grade of "C"
or higher.
Corequisite: A course that a student must
take concurrently with another course.
Below are the different types of pre/corequisites:
- Standard
prerequisite or corequisite: A pre/corequisite to a course,
the equivalent of which is offered at three or more California State
University and/or University of California campuses with an equivalent
prerequisite.
- Sequential
course within and across disciplines: A course that serves
as a pre/corequisite to an articulated course in the same discipline
or in another discipline.
- Course
in communication or computation skills: A course in communication
or computation skills that serves as a pre/corequisite to a course
other than another communication or computation skills course. At
City College of San Francisco, computation courses are defined as
MATH E1, BSMA G, H, and J; communication courses are defined as ENGL
L, 90, 92, and ESL 110, 112, 120, 122, and 132.
- Placement
level: A Mathematics, English, or English as a Second Language
course placement level determined by the College placement assessment
process, which consists of the use of State- approved assessment instruments,
validated cut-scores, and multiple measures.
- Program
prerequisites: A pre/corequisite to enrollment in a program
such as Nursing, Culinary Arts and Hospitality Studies, or Aircraft
Maintenance Technology.
- Health
and safety:
A pre/corequisite to enrollment in a course or program in which health
and safety of the student or others may be endangered if the pre/corequisite
is not met.
- Recency:
A pre/corequisite skill-level that a student must possess within a
specific time period prior to enrollment in a course or program.
Advisories
on Recommended Preparation: A condition of enrollment that a
student is advised, but not required, to meet before or concurrently
with enrollment in a course or educational program. Students are strongly
encouraged to follow the advisories since having the recommended preparation
will greatly increase the likelihood of success in the target course.
Limitation on Enrollment: A condition of
enrollment that a student must meet (in addition to any prerequisites
and corequisites) prior to enrolling in the following types of courses:
- Performance
courses: Courses in this area include intercollegiate athletics,
theatre arts (drama), and music, for which an audition or tryout may
be required.
- Honors
courses: Courses for which students must meet specific scholastic
achievement, such as G.P.A. or standardized test results.
- Blocks
of courses or sections:
a "block" refers to at least two or more courses or sections
of courses in which enrollment is limited to a specific group of students.
Examples at CCSF include the African American Achievement Program
and the Puente Project.
See Catalog
for Procedures for Filing a Petition to Challenge of a Prerequisite/Corequisite.
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