antirequisite

Meanings

Noun

• A previous course (or learning experience) that overlaps in content with a course offering such that students may not take that course offering for academic credit.
• A condition that prevents something from occurring.

Adjective

• Acting as an antirequisite.
• Counter to human nature; tending to make people dysfunctional and to interfere with cooperation.

Origin

• anti- + requisite; in the education sense, contrasted with prerequisite.
• Coined by Elliott Jaques in contrast to his use of requisite to describe an organization that promotes positive and effective human interactions.