Meaning & use

corequisite

noun·Academic

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a course or requirement that a student must take at the same time as another related course.

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Chemistry Lab is a corequisite for Chemistry 101, so students must register for both together.

The advisor explained that statistics was a corequisite, not a prerequisite, for the research methods class.

A note on using this word

Frequently confused with "prerequisite," which must be completed before, not alongside, another course.

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