During advanced registration for fall 2024, Path@Penn started to enforce prerequisites for computer science classes. A bolded line of words appeared at the bottom of the section details on the course ...

How do I know what math course I should take? "Prerequisite" is a term for "something necessary as preparation for something else." In the case of math placement, prerequisites come in the form of ...

Students can take a variety of classes as part of their impactS Math course. The course decision is based on the student’s major, placement information, and the prerequisites for the course. Certain ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

There is no denying it. Because of COVID-19, almost every student’s schedule has changed. Classes shifted online, were canceled, or switched professors, and everything is not the way it was prior.

In Noel v. Thrifty Payless, Inc., the California Supreme Court clarified the scope of the ascertainability prerequisite to class certification. The Court held that proposed classes are ascertainable ...

Ascertainability is an implied prerequisite of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, which governs class actions. 1 Class representatives bear the burden of establishing that their proposed class is ...

Why should courses have prerequisites? I’m not saying that some shouldn’t. I’m just asking what the criteria should be. In much of the burgeoning research on student success, remediation, and ...

Two recent California laws try to address this problem. Assembly Bill 705 allows most students to skip all sorts of remedial classes in favor of full credit courses that can transfer to a four-year ...

Say you're in your biology class and your neighbor asks the professor, "What's a phylum?" The Undergraduate Council of Students, in its infinite wisdom, is petitioning the University to lift the ...