Official Policy on Prerequisites

Prerequisites are established by Category II approval.

No prerequisites or corequisites may be deleted from or added to a course or section without an approved Cat II. Prerequisites for a section must be in place before registration for a term begins.

Existing prereqs may be switched to or from instructor/departmentally enforced (after registration) and Banner enforced (during registration) without category II proposals.

All sections of a course must use the same prerequisites or corequisites that have been approved for that course except as noted below.

Departments may not add prereqs or coreqs to the section Comments field of the online Schedule of Classes except as noted below:

Exceptions:

1. Blanket courses: X01 through X10 (Research & Scholarship, Independent Study, Thesis/Dissertation, Writing & Conference, Reading & Conference, Special Problems/Special Projects, Seminar, Workshop, Practicum/Clinical Experience, Internship/Work Experience)
   
2. Special Topics courses, X99: Note–there are still some courses titled “Special Topics” that do not follow the X99 numbering convention. These will be treated as X99s.
   
3. These two exceptions are handled at the section level (each CRN).
   • Prereqs enforced by Banner are coded at the section level in SSAPREQ.
   • Coreqs (Banner-enforced corequisites) are coded at the section level in SSADETL.
   • P rereqs and coreqs enforced after registration by the instructor or department cannot be coded at the section level in SSASECT but may be listed in the section's Comments field.
     
4. Graduate-level courses that have undergraduate prereqs that are not enforced by Banner. These prereqs may be deleted without a category II. E-mail your request to the catalog coordinator.

When exceptions may be added:

• Departments may add enforced prereqs to blanket course and special topics course sections without Category II proposals, as long as no enrollment has occurred.
  
• If students have enrolled before the enforced prereqs were requested to be added to a CRN, Associate Registrar Tom Watts decides to add it or not. Such changes are rarely approved.

Updated 2/27/08