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Enforcement of Recommended Preparation and Prerequisite, Concurrent, or Co-requisite courses

Beginning with course registration in Fall 2019 for courses to be offered in Spring 2020, the College of Health and Human Development will implement automatic enforcement at the time of course registration of prerequisite, concurrent, or corequisite courses, following Penn State Policy. This approach, called “enforced prerequisites” means students registering for courses will only be allowed to register for courses for which they have met the prerequisite, concurrent, or corequisite requirement.

Students will be allowed to enroll conditionally in a course with enforced prerequisites if, based on their current official enrollment, they will satisfy the enforced prerequisites prior to the time that the course they are enrolling in begins. Students who have the enforced prerequisites in progress and are conditionally enrolled in a course may be disenrolled if they fail to complete the enforced prerequisites.

If students do not have the enforced prerequisites completed or in progress at the time of course registration, they will be blocked from enrolling in the course. Students can request an override of enforced prerequisites, if they believe they have evidence of mastery of the learning required through the enforced prerequisites.