Establishing, Enforcing, and Waiving Prerequisites: Twin Cities, Crookston, Morris, Rochester

• Updated: December 2009
• Primary Contact : Tina Falkner

1. Departments and colleges should be selective in determining prerequisites for courses. Prerequisites should not be set for a course except in progressive, sequence courses or where departments can clearly demonstrate that a student will not be able to complete the course successfully without first completing the prerequisite course work.
2. Where prerequisites have been set, catalogues and course materials must list them and advise students to take only those courses for which the prerequisites have been met.
3. Where prerequisites have been set, instructors may require that any student who has not taken the specified prerequisites for the course must withdraw. Instructors may, however, grant permission, on an individual basis, for a student to take a course without having taken the prerequisite(s).
4. When a student successfully completes a prerequisite course after successfully completing a subsequent course that required the prerequisite, credit for the prerequisite course will be granted. Colleges and departments, at their discretion, may also allow students to receive credit by examination for the prerequisite course.

Exclusions

This policy is not applicable to the Duluth campuses.

Prerequisites inform students that, in order to be successful in a particular course, they must enter the course already having attained specific knowledge as a necessary background.

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Prerequisite

A course that is a necessary requirement before subsequent advanced courses.

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Amended:

December 2009 - Policy now applies to Crookston.

Effective:

April 2009