Corequisites Program Highlight
Institution: Tarrant County College
Authors: Cindy Allen, Anita Biber, Angela Chilton, and Leslie Johnson.
Contact: Reading & Writing Developmental Studies
Description
This article offers a unique snapshot of the Northwest Campus of Tarrant County College's experience with implementing INRW corequisites with college-level English composition, general psychology, and U.S. history courses. With this, the authors describe their challenges and lessons learned.
Overall, the authors found that communication and a desire to collaborate is needed for a model like this to work.
Taking the First Steps Towards 100% Implementation of the Corequisite Model
Corequisites Program Highlight
Institution: San Jacinto College
Authors: Mary Orlando, Karen Hattaway.
Contact: College.Prep@sjcd.edu
College Preparatory Department
Abstract
Taken from the Article Recipe for Successful Collaborative Corequisites.
"This paper describes a corequisite pairing of Integrated Reading and Writing (INRW) and Humanities (HUMA) 1301 taught at San Jacinto College North in Houston, Texas. The authors describe their planning process, which combined course learning outcomes with cognitive theory and best-practice resources for effective teaching. These complementary courses provided students with contextualized learning activities designed to develop critical thinking and communication skills as students focused on cultural history to understand how human communities create monster stories to identify their fears and characterize the heroic figures who come to their rescue. The article includes sample content units and student activities and provides a strategic insight into a process of integrating best practices and cognitive psychology with class planning focused on required learning outcomes." (Orlando, M., & Hattaway, K., 2020).
Orlando, M., & Hattaway, K. (2020). Recipe for successful collaborative corequisites. Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2(2), pp. 32-39.