Note: These courses do not carry college credit. See additional learning support policies.

• RGTR 0198 - Regents' Test Essay Preparation
• RGTR 0199 - Regents' Test Reading Preparation

• ENGL 0099 - Learning Support English II

• MATH 0090 - Basic Mathematical Skills
• MATH 0097 - Learning Support Mathematics I
• MATh 0099 - Learning Support Mathematics II

• READ 0099- Learning Support Reading II

• WAYC 1101 - Student Success

For more information, contact the Division of Arts & Learning Support.

Learning Support English II (ENGL 099)
Prerequisites: Engl 098 and/or satisfactory college placement score.
Hours: 4
A course designed to teach students to organize and write essays. The student will learn to identify and write introductory paragraphs, developmental paragraphs, and concluding paragraphs within the essay. Levels of generality, effective transition, exact and inclusive language, and organization are emphasized.
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Basic Mathematical Skills (MATH 0090)
Prerequisites: College Placement
Hours: 1
A course designed to review basic mathematical skills, including the four basic operations with whole numbers, integers, fractions, and decimals. Also included is using ratio and proportion, percent, and dimensional analysis. Designed primarily for students seeking the Associate of Science Degree in Nursing.
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Learning Support Mathematics I(MATH 0097)
Prerequisites: College Placement
Hours: 4
A course designed for developing and/or reviewing arithmetic, algebraic, and problem solving skills in preparation for MATH 0099. Emphasis is on fundamental operations with numbers and algebraic expressions and on the interrelatedness of arithmetic and algebra. Topics include operations and properties of rational numbers and expressions, operations with polynomials, percentages, ratios and proportions, solutions of linear equations and inequalities, word problems and introduction to graphing.
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Learning Support Mathematics II (MATH 0099)
Prerequisites: MATH 0097 or high School Algebra I and acceptable college placement exam scores.
Hours: 4
A course designed to review and/or develop analytical and graphical methods for solving a variety of problem situations in preparation for Mathematical Modeling (Math 1101) or (with a grade of B or better) Pre-calculus (Math 1113). Topics include operations on polynomials, rational, exponential, and radical expressions and solving first degree equations and linear inequalities in one variable, systems of equations in two variables, second degree equations, and simple exponential and radical equations.
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Regents' Test Reading Preparation (Read 090)
Prerequisites: None.
Hours: 1
A workshop-format course designed to prepare a student to take the reading portion of the Regents' test.
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Learning Support Reading II (READ 0099)
Prerequisites: READ 0098 or satisfactory college placement score.
Hours: 4
A course designed to meet student needs in reading. The course offers the college student instruction and practice in advancing vocabulary skills, improving comprehension of expository text, and increasing reading rate. Emphasis is given to reading as a process of identifying, interpreting, and evaluating ideas in college-level materials and texts. Additionally, test-taking skills and efficient study techniques are introduced.
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Student Success (WAYC 1101) Prerequisites: None
Hours: 3
A course designed to provide the student with the skill, information and guidance useful for success in college. A course concerned with the cultural values of a college education, a realistic assessment of employment opportunities, improvement of study skills, awareness and use of college facilities and services, and familiarization with the teaching/learning process, student responsibilities, group work and personal, social, and academic growth.
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Placement
Students entering programs leading to the baccalaureate degree who either score below 480 SAT-verbal or 440 SAT-Mathematics OR below the comparable college placement scores OR who have not met the CPC requirements in Mathematics or English shall be required to satisfactorily complete LS requirements. Note: The COMPASS may not be retaken unless the student has been out of college for 3 years or more.

The SAT cutoff scores will change yearly as the standards are upgraded. For the current status of these upgraded standards, see the revised administrative procedures.

Registration for Core Classes
Students who exited a LS area (English, mathematics, or reading) are then eligible to enter the first applicable Core Curriculum course.

Until Learning Support requirements have been satisfied, students shall not be permitted to take credit courses which require the content or the skills of the prerequisite course. For example, LS reading must be exited before registering for Social, Natural, or Physical Science courses. LS English AND Reading must be exited before registering for college level English, and LS Mathematics must be exited before registering for science or mathematics courses.

Students may not accumulate more than twenty semester hours of academic credit before completing all Learning Support requirements.  No degree credit can be earned in Learning Support courses.

Withdrawing from courses
Students with LS requirements enrolled in both LS courses and credit courses may NOT withdraw from the LS courses unless ALL credit courses are also dropped.

Audit
Students REQUIRED to take Learning Support courses may not register as an auditor for those courses.

Voluntary Enrollment
Students who VOLUNTARILY enroll in Learning Support Courses are limited to three attempts per academic area. They are not subject to any exit requirements and they are NOT eligible to receive federal financial aid for such courses unless the course is being taken on the advice of their advisor.

Exiting
To exit a LS area, students must satisfactorily complete all course requirements, including departmental final exams and exit essays, and score at least the University System minimum score on the college placement examination, COMPASS. 

Academic Progress, Probation, and Suspension Policies:

Students initially placed in English 0099, Math 0099, or Reading 0099 courses will have 3 attempts to pass the course and pass the exit exam. Students who do not earn a grade of either A, B, C, or W on the first attempt will be warned of their academic standing. Students who do not earn a grade of either A, B, C, or W on the second attempt will be placed on probation and again warned of their academic standing. Students who do not pass the course and the exit exam on the third attempt will be suspended from the College for three years.

Students who have been suspended because they have not completed English 0099, Math 0099, or Reading 0099 within the 3 total attempts may appeal to the College President (who will forward the appeal to the Academic Policies Committee for recommendation) for a 4th attempt. To appeal, the student will write a letter to the President by the first day of regular registration of the semester following suspension asking for a 4th attempt and explaining why s/he will succeed on this attempt, AND the student must ask a discipline-appropriate faculty member to support the student’s appeal in writing or in person before the Academic Policies Committee. A student granted this 4th attempt will be allowed to enroll ONLY in the 0099 course and will be required to complete additional requirements as recommended by the Committee (such as working with a tutor in the ASC for a minimum number of hours per week). If the student does not earn a grade of A, B, or C on this 4th attempt, the student will be suspended from the College for three years. A student electing NOT to appeal will be suspended from the College for three years. At the end of three years, a student may apply for readmission and may retake the COMPASS entrance exam. If a readmitted student places in a Learning Support course, the student will have three attempts to pass the course.

Students initially placed in (or electing to take) MATH 0097 will have 3 total attempts to pass both MATH 0097 AND MATH 0099. Students who do not earn a grade of either A, B, C, or W on the first attempt will be warned of their academic standing. Students who do not earn a grade of either A, B, C, or W on the second attempt will be placed on probation and again warned of their academic standing. Students who have not passed MATH 0097 by the third attempt will be suspended from the College for three years. At the end of three years, students will be allowed to retake the COMPASS entrance exam but MUST exit all learning support mathematics courses within 3 attempts.

Students who have passed MATH 0097 with a grade of A, B, or C, but have been suspended because they have not also completed MATH 0099 within the 3 total attempts, may appeal to the College President (who will forward the appeal to the Academic Policies Committee for recommendation) for a 4th attempt. To appeal, the student will write a letter to the President by the first day of regular registration of the semester following suspension asking for a 4th attempt and explaining why s/he will succeed on this attempt. If the student is granted the appeal s/he will be allowed to attempt MATH 0099. If the student has not yet earned more than 20 hours of credit, at the discretion of the Committee the student may also be allowed to take up to one additional course.

A student who does not earn a grade of A, B, or C in MATH 0099 on the appealed attempt is required to sit out for one term. At the end of a term with no classes, the student may write an appeal letter to the President (who will forward the appeal to the Academic Policies Committee for recommendation) by the first day of regular registration asking for a 5th attempt, and explaining why s/he will succeed on this attempt, AND the student must ask a mathematics faculty member to support the student’s appeal in writing or in person before the Academic Policies Committee.  A student granted a 5th attempt will be allowed to enroll ONLY in MATH 0099 and will be required to complete additional requirements as recommended by the Committee (such as working with a tutor in the ASC for a minimum number of hours per week). A student who earns a failing grade on the 5th attempt will be suspended from the College for three years.

A student electing NOT to appeal will be suspended from the College for three years. At the end of three years, a student may apply for readmission and may retake the COMPASS entrance exam. If a readmitted student places in a Learning Support course, the student will have three attempts to pass the course.

For further information, refer to the Waycross College catalog.

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