The Importance Of Developmental Coursework For College Students

Majority of college students look up upon graduating, it’s an image in their head that they envision themselves walking in their caps and gowns all ready for the ceremony. Many graduate right away and get straight to the college level classes they need towards their future career, but many college students don’t get that option of starting right away, instead they have to take remedial courses. These courses help college students who are not at the college level yet develop their skills in order for them to start taking college level courses needed for their future career. However, many people like myself believe that developmental coursework is a necessity for college students to help them further develop their skills that are needed in order for them to be successful in college level courses; conversely, several students oppose to the mandatory remedial courses needed prior …show more content…
Developmental coursework is not valuable to students since, low success rates and high costs of remedial courses are affecting college students on their graduation rates leaving students to dropout because, of the income background they may come from and not being able to afford these developmental courses. College students believe that these developmental courses are time consuming and unnecessary, but also feel that they should already be prepared coming from highschool and going into college. Students who are at most risk for graduating already and with these remedial courses needed to take before they take college level courses and we’re basically going to make them do more and on top of that spend more money as