antirequisite

English

Etymology 1

From anti- +‎ requisite; in the education sense, contrasted with prerequisite.

Noun

antirequisite (plural antirequisites)

1. (education) 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.
   • 2010, Austin L. Toombs, The impact of curriculum visualization on decision making among students: an honors thesis (HONRS 499) (Ball State University):

     Antirequisites affect the availability of a course in the opposite direction; if the antirequisite of course A has been taken, then the student cannot enroll in course A.

   • 2014, Julian Hermida, Facilitating Deep Learning, →ISBN:

     . Some never stop talking about antirequisites. Others always advocate for splitting courses, and most get angry when the administration does not enforce prerequisites and corequisites.

   • 2014, Kerry Lappin-Fortin, “Comparing written competency in core French and French immersion graduates”, in Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, volume 17, number 2:

     Those indicating the student had taken a previous university French course were discarded, as were a small number of questionnaires indicating a Francophone family background (an antirequisite for both of these intermediate level courses)

2. (more generally) A condition that prevents something from occurring.
   • 2001, RJ Thacker, HMP Couchman, “Star formation, supernova feedback, and the angular momentum problem in numerical cold dark matter cosmogony: halfway there?”, in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, volume 555, number 1:

     The key result of this Letter, however, is that hierarchical structure formation is not an antirequisite for the successful formation of disks: the adoption of a plausible physical model for feedback can indeed regulate star formation and avoid catastrophic AM loss.

Adjective

antirequisite (not comparable)

1. Acting as an antirequisite.
   • 2010 March, Jan Zwicky, “Mathematical analogy and metaphorical insight”, in For the Learning of Mathematics, volume 30, number 1:

     Indeed, while we can imagine providing such explanations or elaborations, they would seem to be antirequisite if the metaphor is to remain literarily pleasing or effective.

Etymology 2

Coined by Elliott Jaques in contrast to his use of requisite to describe an organization that promotes positive and effective human interactions.

Adjective

antirequisite (comparative more antirequisite, superlative most antirequisite)

1. (management) Counter to human nature; tending to make people dysfunctional and to interfere with cooperation.
   • 1977 October, Noel Tichy, “A General Theory of Bureaucracy (Book review)”, in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science:

     His book is about the conditions for requisite institutions and how to change antirequisite, “alienating, paranoiagenic, entropic” organizations.

   • 2001, Elliott Jaques, The Life and Behavior of Living Organisms: A General Theory, →ISBN:

     I have also learned that antirequisite social arrangements massively outweigh personality makeup in calling forth behaviors that reveal the primitive greed, and envy, and destructiveness—the capacity for evil split away in our inner lives.

   • 2014, Robert De Board, The Psychoanalysis of Organizations, →ISBN:

     On the other hand, anti-requisite organizations hinder and prevent the formation of normal relationships and are in fact 'paranoiagenic', that is, they create envy, hostile rivalry, and anxiety.