Developmental Education & Basic Skills
Trevecca’s developmental education and basic skills courses are for students who fail to establish competency through their ACT/SAT scores or TNU placement test scores or are granted admission on academic alert or probation. Students will be required to meet with a Student Success Team member to discuss the developmental education and basic skills courses they are placed in.
Developmental Education Course
Math
INT 0961 Intermediate Algebra Lab
Students with math ACT scores of 18 or math SAT scores of 480-500, who are in majors in which INT-1055 is required (e.g., STEM majors) will be placed in the one-credit developmental math course, INT-0961 Intermediate Algebra Lab, and required to take it within the first two years concurrent with either INT-1055 College Algebra or MAT-1080 Problem Solving: A Quantitative Reasoning Approach. The course is graded on an S/U basis and does not count toward graduation. It does count as institutional credit in the areas of financial aid and athletic eligibility.
INT-0960 Intermediate Algebra
Students with math ACT scores of 17 or below or math SAT scores below 480, will be placed in the three-credit developmental mathematics course, INT-0960 Intermediate Algebra, and required to take it their first two years. The course is graded on an S/U basis and does not count toward graduation. It does count as institutional credit in the areas of financial aid and athletic eligibility.
Basic Skills Courses
English
Students with English ACT scores of 18 and below or placement test scores of 32 and below will be placed in ENG 1010 Introduction to Rhetoric. Students with ACT scores of 17 and below or placement test scores of 25 and below will also be placed in ENG 1010L Introduction to Rhetoric/Lab, a component taken concurrently with ENG 1010. Both courses carry regular University credit. ENG 1010 is graded on a regular letter grade basis, and ENG 1010L is graded on an S/U basis.
Academic Alert
Students granted admission on academic alert with an ACT composite of 18 and above will have an option to be placed in INT 1010 Study Skills. INT 1010 carries regular University credit and is graded on an S/U basis.
Students granted admission on academic alert with an ACT composite of 17 and below will have an option to take INT 1210 Fundamentals of Student Success, which carries regular University credit and is graded on an S/U basis.
Academic Probation
Students granted admission on academic probation may be placed in INT 1150 Engaging Academic Success. INT 1150 is graded on an S/U basis.