Blue Ridge Community College provides an opportunity for students to strengthen their basic educational background. Through a series of courses, instruction is provided to help the student overcome educational deficiencies that would likely prevent him/her from succeeding in an associate degree or diploma program. Developmental courses are offered in the areas of reading and vocabulary development, grammar and composition, keyboarding, biology, chemistry, and mathematics.
Incoming students are given a series of pre-enrollment placement tests to determine if any of these courses will be prerequisites to their related coursework. Students should take prerequisites in their first semester of enrollment if possible. Certain programs require that prerequisite courses be completed prior to fall enrollment.
Developmental and prerequisite courses include:
| BIO 090 | Foundations of Biology |
| CHM 092 | Fundamentals of Chemistry |
| CIS 070 | Fundamentals of Computing |
| DRE 097 | Integrated Reading and Writing II |
| DRE 098 | Integrated Reading and Writing III |
| DRE 099 | Integrated Reading and Writing III |
| DMA 010 | Operations with Integers |
| DMA 020 | Fractions and Decimals |
| DMA 030 | Proportion/Ratios/Rates/Percents |
| DMA 040 | Expressions, Linear Equations, Linear Inequalities |
| DMA 050 | Graphs and Equations of Lines |
| DMA 060 | Polynomials and Quadratic Applications |
| DMA 070 | Rational Expressions and Equations |
| DMA 080 | Radical Expressions and Equations |
A student must earn a “P” or a “C” or better to progress to the next class.
Contact Us
Student Services
(828) 694-1800 or 883-2520
Fax: (828) 696-2446
admissions@blueridge.edu
Henderson County Campus
Sink Building
Transylvania County Campus
Straus Building