Why are DISC 3370 and 3371 gatekeeper courses?
Most popular majors have a class that is a hurdle class. Accounting has one or two, chemistry has one, electrical engineering, computer science, etc. Gate keeping classes typically cover material that is considered very important to the rest of the major and to the employers that want our students. The material is usually very difficult and covered very quickly. Quite often, the material is covered in sufficient depth to make the material approachable only to those students who work hard enough to understand and apply it. Departments employ these courses to help manage enrollment.
