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Students in some programs at the University of Technology, Jamaica may be required to take non-credit developmental courses if they have not passed a related course on the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination after completing secondary education.
Common developmental courses may be general education in nature, such as Developmental English or Foundation Mathematics. Some specific programs, such as business or economics majors, may separately require Fundamentals of Accounting. Likewise, science programs may require Preliminary Biology, Basic Physics, or Fundamentals of Chemistry before students are able to enroll in degree-level coursework.
These developmental courses are offered at the pre-university level to prepare students for post-secodary coursework in the field. They are not credit-bearing at the University of Technology, Jamaica, and we do not recommend academic credit for those subjects since they are designed to supplement secondary-level education.
Resources:
University of Technology, Jamaica: https://www.utech.edu.jm/academics/utech-academy/courses-of-study and https://www.utech.edu.jm/enrolment/modulelisting/COBM/General%20Management%204%20year%20programme%20(single).pdf