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SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATION

College Preparation Courses
To assess student needs in the areas of mathematics and written communication skills, all students are required to take placement exams via the College Board’s ACCUPLACER exams; such exams will assess the skills and abilities of students to determine whether they should be placed in either or both of  the college preparation courses offered at Wade College.  Upon acceptance and enrollment, but prior to registering for classes, all students will sit for the two placement exams—administered on campus and overseen by college administration.  The student will be required to schedule an appointment for testing with the Office of Admissions upon enrollment. 

All students who score below a predetermined benchmark score on the College Board’s ACCUPLACER placement exams will be placed in DMAT 0075 Fundamentals of Mathematics and/or DCOM 0095 Fundamentals of Composition, as appropriate. College preparation courses in mathematics and English composition will serve as prerequisites for the college-level courses: MATH 1332 Math for Liberal Arts I and ENGL 1301 Composition I courses, respectively; consequently, successful completion of mandated preparation courses is required for those students whose placement scores determine need.

Supplemental Instruction Laboratories
The supplemental instruction program at Wade College provides students regularly scheduled laboratory instruction linked to all of the institution’s mathematics and English composition courses—including both the college preparation and the college-level courses—to supplement the information and skills taught in those courses. 

The laboratory instruction will be led by subject-matter specialists (Wade College professors).  As opposed to the lecture format that is used to present course concepts in the college preparation courses and college-level courses, the mathematics and writing laboratories will emphasize one-on-one student assistance in the respective areas with the instructor acting as a facilitator, providing assistance when necessary.  Students will be able to work individually through course concepts provided by assignments, workbooks, or course-specific computer software.