Recommended Prerequisites for undergraduate foundation and core courses in CSS

December 13, 2005. Revised January 6, 2006.

The "Proposed pre-requisites" (the rightmost column below) was adopted by the CSS faculty, January 13, 2006.

Currently, there are inconsistencies between the prerequisites for "new curriculum" courses in the documents that voting faculty used in passing this new curriculum, official catalog copy of undergraduate courses, and the registrar's CSS course descriptions on the UWT website.

This document has two purposes. The first is to reconcile the differences in the documents that the voting faculty approved. The second is to place additional prerequisite on some of the entry level courses that were assumed to be in place due to admissions requirements for a junior/senior institution that can no longer be taken for granted when freshmen begin to be admitted.

The documents that are taken as "source" or "primary", i.e. those documents that contain policy as voted on by CSS faculty, are the prerequisite chart from page 1 of the powerpoint slides written by Donald Chinn, 2) the syllabi for each of the courses in the Core for the new curriculum, and 3) the new/change course forms submitted to the UWT Curriculum committee. All of these primary documents can be found at: S:\Institute_of_Technology\General\Curriculum\New BS Curriculum and S:\Institute_of_Technology\General\Curriculum\New BS Curriculum\curriculum committee. Unfortunately, there are discrepencies between these documents. These discrepancies are noted below. Further, these documents assume that all entering students satisfy all admissions requirements for entering juniors, which is not always the case.

Policies currently in the official catalog and UWT website are taken as "derived" documents; where they diverge from the source documents, they are considered in error.
Course number 2005-06 UWT Catalog UWT Website (from registrar) "New Curric" syllabus "New Curric" prereq chart new/change course forms Proposed pre-req's
142 Computer literacy, pre-calc, physical science Recommended: Computer literacy, pre-calc, physical science no syll none no form pre-calc
143 Placement exam 142 no syll 142 no form pre-calc, placement exam
305 Placement exam 143 143 calc, calc-based physics 143, placement exam pre-calc, placement exam
321 Structured prog, calc Structured prog, calc 142, calc, calc-based physics None no change 142, calc
322 321 321 321, 143 321 321 321, 143
325 143 or equivalent 143 143 143 143 or equivalent 143, 10 credits of writing (current entrance req's)
342 co-req: 305. Placement exam. 143, 305 321, 305 (may be taken concurrently), calc, calc-based physics 321, 305 (may be taken concurrently). 321, 305 (may be taken concurrently). 321, 305 (may be taken concurrently)
343 322, 342 322, 342 322, 342 322, 342 322, 342 322, 342
360 342 342 342 342 342 342, 10 credits of writing
371 None college-level physics 142 143 college-level physics, 142 142, calc-based physics
372 371, 342 371, 342 371, 342 371, 342 371, 342 371, 342
422 343, 372 343, 372 343, 372 343, 372 no form 343, 372