Prerequisites ensure that students have the required background to successfully complete their course. Students should ensure that they have completed all prerequisite and corequisite course requirements in accordance with the Prerequisite Declaration Form before registering.

Students who feel a prerequisite should be waived for non-academic reasons (e.g., work experience) must contact the course professor with the authority to waive the prerequisite before registration takes place. This permission (a Prerequisite Waiver Declaration Form accompanies the online Undergraduate Course Registration form) must be forwarded to the Registrations Unit, Office of the Registrar.

Students who are registered in a course that is a prerequisite to a second course, can preregister in the second course while the first one is underway.

Before registering in courses designated as “reading courses” (refer to Glossary, Section 12), students must contact the course professor to obtain registration approval before submitting their written request. Some courses require professor approval and other course-related prerequisites. Failure to obtain professor approval will result in registration being delayed or refused.