Janet Fulks, ASCCC Curriculum Chair

Jane Patton, ASCCC President1

“Prerequisites are an essential tool in the construction of curriculum for courses in which student success is highly dependent on previously acquired knowledge or skills.”

Good Practice for the Implementation of Prerequisites, 1997, p.1

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“Applied overzealously, prerequisites which go beyond needed skills will unnecessarily limit students’ access”

Good Practice for the Implementation of Prerequisites, 1997, p.1

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“Used laxly or not at all, weak or non-existent prerequisites do not inform students of skills needed to succeed..”

Good Practice for the Implementation of Prerequisites, 1997, p.14

“Properly set prerequisites benefit all: students, faculty, and the college. Students know what is expected of them without being denied access, faculty teach prepared students and have a positive classroom environment, and the college has efficient educational programs.”

Good Practice for the Implementation of Prerequisites, 1997, p.15

“. . . a condition of enrollment that a student is required to meet in order to demonstrate current readiness for enrollment in a course or educational program.”

Title 5 § 55003 55003

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“. . . a condition of enrollment consisting of a course that a student is required to simultaneously take in order to enroll in another course.”

Title 5 § 55003 55003

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“. . . a condition of enrollment that a student is advised, but not required, to meet before or in conjunction with enrollment in a course or educational program.”

Title 5 § 55003 55003

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Limitations on Limitations on enrollmentenrollment

• Honor’s courses

• Health and Safety

• Learning Communities

• Program limitations – nursing

Title 5 § 55003 55003

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• At a minimum, prerequisites, corequisites, and advisories on recommended preparation shall be based on content review, with additional methods of scrutiny being applied depending on the type of prerequisite or corequisite being established. Title 5 § 55003

• What are these levels of scrutiny?

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ENGLISH COMPOSITION COURSE

Transferable, degree applicable

Requisites proposed:• Assessment and placement at freshman

composition level

• Successfully passing English 100 – one level below English Composition course or

• Equivalent ESL course

What level of scrutiny is required?13

MATHEMATICS COURSE

• Intermediate algebra course – degree applicable, nontransferable

Requisites proposed:

• Assessment and placement intermediate algebra

• Successful passing of algebra

What level of scrutiny is required?

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HISTORY COURSE• Requiring extensive writing, with a 17th

grade reading level text, transferable to CSU and UC

Proposed requisite

• Assessment at college level reading

• Or successful completion of the course qualifying someone for a College level reading

What level of scrutiny is required?15

History Course

Scrutiny required:

This is a prerequisite in communication or computational skills outside discipline. . . Content review

Assessment test cut score validation

Statistical data showing students are likely to fail without the prerequisite

Disproportionate impact study

Plus multiple measures16

Prerequisites courses in communication or computational skills outside discipline. . .

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Limitation on Enrollment – Performance courses. . .

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• Other courses are available to meet degree/certificate requirements

• Plus disproportionate impact study

Example: Audition for Dance 22

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Health and Safety. . .

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• Content review for health and safety skills (not for “highly unlikely to succeed”)

Example:

Clear T.B. test and immunizations (measles, mumps, rubella) as a prerequisite for Child Development 3

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Learning Communities orHonors courses. . .

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Other sections/courses are available to meet degree/certificate requirements

Example: Psychology 2H (Honors)

and Psychology 2

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• Each college must have challenge process, specify who’s responsible & ensure students’ rights are published

• Section 55201(e) provides details (e.g. timely)

• Processes & responsible parties are locally determined

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• Evaluation team bases its decision on any of the following:

•Materials the student provides

•Content-based questions the team asks the student

•Any other measures of preparedness

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• Results of tests and/or other similar measures that the student has previously taken

• Performance ability in voice, acting, music performance, etc.

• Portfolios

• Work or life experience26

• Intermediate Swimming

Student must be able to swim 25 meters of freestyle, backstroke, and breast stroke and tread water for 5 minutes.

• Graphic Communications

Portfolio demonstrating skills acquired

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Binder

Flash drive

www.asccc.org

New Program and Course Approval Handbook

Local Board Policies

Local Curriculum Handbooks

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• Please fill out the evaluations.

• The presentations will be posted on the ASCCC website under the Curriculum Institute within 2 weeks.

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