Course Requisites
Course Requisites Overview
In order to successfully register for a course, you may need to meet certain requirements that must be completed prior to enrolling in a course. These range from the prior completion of foundational courses to obtaining instructor approval. The most common course requisites are prerequisites, linked courses and restrictions.
Prerequisites
A prerequisite is a required preparatory course or placement exam score that must
be completed prior to enrolling in a course.
Course prerequisites are outlined in the Schedule of Classes and Catalog.
If you completed work outside of UCR, transfer work is articulated to UCR course
work as appropriate and will therefore satisfy prerequisite requirements. Please talk
to your academic advisor and the department offering your course if you have any questions.
You can view your placement scores via R’Web in your Student Profile. Select the Prior Education and Testing link in the left
navigation. You will see the course that you placed into as well as the numerical
value that is used to satisfy prerequisite requirements per the Schedule of Classes.
See additional information on placement tests.
Linked Courses
If a course has linked sections, it means that the course is comprised of two or
more sections that you must register for simultaneously. For example: lecture and
discussion; lecture and laboratory; or lecture, discussion, and workshop.
Linked sections are lecture-specific. For example, if you register for MATH 009B,
lecture section 001, you may only be able to register for discussion sections 002,
003 or 004.
If you do not register for all of the linked sections required for a course, you
will receive an error message such as, "ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY NEEDED - This course requires
enrollment in multiple sections (i.e. lecture and discussion and/or lab, etc.). Please
select all required sections."
"LCA" means "additional lecture" and is typically associated with specific math courses.
Restrictions
A restriction on a class means that only certain students may register for it; for
example, only juniors or only art majors.
You may need to get an instructor's approval before you can register for a restricted
class.
Content Overlap
For some courses students may not earn credit in both because the content has been determined by the Academic Senate to be too similar. These courses are said to have “Content Overlap”.
Students may not register for a course which has Content Overlap with a course they have already completed. Review the Schedule of Classes to determine if you have taken any courses with content overlap.
Corequisites
Some courses require another course with a different subject and/or course number to be taken at the same time. Review the corequisites in the Schedule of Classes to locate whether your course has one. For example, CHEM 001A and CHEM 01LA.