Corequisite Courses

What is a corequisite course?

Corequisite courses are designed to get a student through more than one course in one semester. This is accomplished by setting up a course pairing in which both courses are taken during the same semester. 

Plan your hours

Beware that your workload in a corequisite course will reflect the workloads of all of the courses that would be in the course sequence it replaces. Pay attention to the number of hours in the course and scale your expectations accordingly. Do not expect the typical workload from a single course. The general math department guideline is that you should expect to spend 3 to 4 hours outside of class for each class meeting hour. That means a class that meets for 7 hours each week, like Algebra Express, has a workload of 21 to 28 hours each week outside of class, in addition to your class meeting time!

Our corequisite offerings in math at ACC

Studies across the nation have so far shown higher success rates for students in corequisite courses than for students taking a sequence of courses over more than one semester. Because of that, all colleges in Texas now follow a corequisite model as the primary way of moving students through their math course sequences.

Our course pairings are given simultaneously, where one class meets directly after the other class in the same location.  Occasionally, course pairings meet at the same place and time on consecutive days (particularly in the summer semester).

All of our corequisite offerings are outlined in the course flow charts as either course pairings or large blocks.

 We also have some base-level developmental corequisites on our Developmental Courses page.