COA 09-11 Catalog - Peralta Colleges

ACADEMIC REGULATIONS, POLICIES AND STANDARDS195student must acquire through concurrent enrollment inanother course and without which the student is highlyunlikely to succeed. Students must concurrently enroll inthe corequisite course.Recommended Preparation (Advisory) means acondition of enrollment that a student is advised, but notrequired, to meet before or in conjunction with enrollmentin a course or educational program. Recommendedpreparation represents a set of skills or a body ofknowledge, which enable a student to achieve a greaterdepth or breadth of knowledge of course material butwithout which the student is still likely to succeed in thecourse or program.Policy: Prerequisites and corequisites will be monitoredautomatically at registration. If a student successfully hasmet the prerequisite at a Peralta college, as confirmed by atranscript check, the student will be enrolled in the class.If a student has not met the prerequisite or corequisite, thestudent will be temporarily enrolled in the course untilthe last day to add the class. (If the student has met theprerequisite at another college, but does not possess atranscript, the student will be enrolled in the class andgiven until the 13th week of instruction to provide atranscript to the Admissions Office. This process beginswhen the student submits a petition for equivalency.SEE BELOW.) The student’s enrollment in the class willbecome official if the student files a successful petition.The student will be automatically dropped on the last dayto add the class if the student fails to submit a petition orthe petition is not upheld.There are three options:• Petition for Prerequisite/Corequisite Equivalency,or• Petition for Prerequisite/Corequisite Substitution,or• Petition for Prerequisite/Corequisite Challenge.Petition for Prerequisite/Corequisite Equivalency.The District will maintain a list of courses offered atother colleges or universities that satisfy the District’sprerequisites. A student who has taken one of theseequivalent courses at another college or university maybring a transcript showing successful completion of thecourse to the Admissions and Records Office/DivisionOffice/Counseling and complete a Prerequisite/CorequisiteEquivalency/Substitution form. Upon verification, thestudent will be officially enrolled in the course.Petition for Prerequisite/Corequisite Substitution. Ifthe course does not appear on the pre-approved list, thestudent will have to complete a Petition for Prerequisite/Corequisite Equivalency/Substitution form with theappropriate written documentation attached (courseoutline and transcript). If, upon review by the Dean,and/or Vice President, the course is determined to bean equivalent prerequisite, the student will be officiallyenrolled in the course.Petition for Prerequisite/Corequisite Challenge. If astudent desires to challenge the prerequisite or corequisite,he/she must file a Petition for Prerequisite/CorequisiteChallenge with appropriate written documentation inAdmissions and Records, the Office of the Vice Presidentof Instruction or Office of the Vice President of StudentServices.Grounds for challenge shall include at least one of thefollowing:1. The student has acquired through work or lifeexperiences the skills and knowledge that arepresupposed in terms of the course or program forwhich the prerequisite/corequisite is established.(Dean of Instruction)2. The student has not been allowed to enroll dueto a limitation on enrollment established for acourse that involves intercollegiate competition orpublic performance, or where enrollment has beenlimited to a specific cohort of students, and wouldbe delayed by a semester or more in attaining thedegree or certificate specified in his or her StudentEducational Plan. (Dean)3. The student demonstrates that he or she doesnot pose a threat to himself or herself or others ina course which has a prerequisite established toprotect health and safety. (Dean of Instruction)4. The prerequisite is not necessary and appropriate forsuccess in the course and has not been establishedaccordance with the District’s process for establishingprerequisites and corequisites. (Dean)5. The prerequisite or corequisite is either unlawfullydiscriminatory or is being applied in an unlawfullydiscriminatory manner. (Vice President of Instructionand Vice President of Student Services)6. The student will be subject to undue delay inattaining the goal in his or her educational planbecause the prerequisite or corequisite course hasnot been made reasonably available. (Vice Presidentof Instruction)A petition will be resolved by the appropriate staff withinfive (5) working days. If the petition is upheld, the studentwill be officially enrolled in the course. If no space isavailable in the course when a petition is filed, the petitionshall be resolved prior to the beginning of registration forthe next term, and, if the petition is upheld, the studentshall be permitted to enroll if space is available when thestudent registers for the subsequent term. If the petitionis not upheld, the student will be notified in writing thathe/she has been dropped from the course. The studentshall bear the initial burden of showing that grounds existfor filing the petition.