required course
Non-elective academic subject
A required course is a class that students must complete to fulfill degree or program requirements, as opposed to an elective chosen freely.
The term appears in academic contexts: Calculus is a required course for engineering majors.
Also called a mandatory course or, in some systems, a core course.
- mandatoryRequired by rule
- prerequisiteRequired prior condition
- gen edUniversal curriculum courses
- syllabusCourse plan document
- creditRecognition or payment deferral
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- academicsprofessor, university professors, math, professors, syllabus week
- college termsuniversity, community college, fall semester, spring semester, liberal arts college
- course
- Courseselective, introductory, seminar, prerequisite, independent study
- class schedulestimetable, class period, period, time slot, bell schedule
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