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Why should I take dual credit courses?

How many classes can I take?

Will the grades I receive in a dual credit course appear on my high school transcript?

Can I take classes between my sophomore and senior year?

What tests are required if I am a new student?

What is the difference between dual credit and concurrent classes for high school students?

What if I'm a home school or private school student and want to take college courses?

How can I drop a course?

What can you tell me about taking college classes online?

Will my courses transfer?

Why should I take dual credit courses?

You can save money on college tuition by taking classes close to home at a reasonable cost.

Brazosport College's tuition is significantly less than most Texas universities.

You can experience college before you graduate from high school.

You can gain the technical skills necessary to get a job right out of high school.

After graduation, you can begin college at a sophomore level.

Dual Credit courses are college courses for which a student receives both high school and college credit. Dual credit will be received upon successful completion of college courses with a minimum grade of 70. Check with your high school or college counselor for more information about credits.

Concurrent enrollment is enrollment in both college and high school at the same time. Students receive only college credit for these courses (and no high school credit).

How can I drop a course?

If you are taking a course as dual credit and you need to drop or withdraw from the class, you must contact your high school counselor for approval prior to the deadline for withdrawls.

How many classes can I take?

You can choose up to two dual credit courses per semester. If you wish to take more than two courses you will need to see your dual credit counselor.

Will the grades I receive in a dual credit course appear on my high school transcript?

While the student will receive a letter grade from the college, all the dual credit courses will also have a corresponding numeric grade that will be delivered to the ISD. Most districts give a higher weighting than regular high school courses. Grades will appear on both student high school and college transcripts.

Can I take classes between my sophomore and senior year?

Courses may be taken as soon as you have completed your sophomore year of high school. This means you can take classes between your sophomore and junior years of high school, as well as your junior and senior years.

What tests are required if I am a new student?

Check your school's guidebook to see if testing is required.

What if I'm a home school or private school student and want to take college courses?

Many home school students and students from private schools take college courses. Contact Jennifer Hedrick at 979.230.3238 for information on enrollment.

What can you tell me about taking college classes online?

Students can expect to spend about 10 hours a week online for a 3 credit hour course. Professor expectations vary regarding their requirements and it is best to contact the professor so you have a clear understanding of what the class requires. The distance learning environment is very different from the classroom as you need to be a self motivated student to be successful.

Brazosport College uses the Readiness for Education at Distance Indicator (READI) tool so that you can get information about your strengths and weaknesses as they relate to taking online courses. To find out if you are a good candidate for taking an online course take the online READI assesment.

Will my courses transfer?

As specified in the Texas Education Code:

Across the state, core curricula adopted by an institution of higher education must require courses totaling 42 semester credit hours (SCH), unless an individual institution has requested and received approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to have a core curriculum that exceeds 42 SCH (institutions may decide to request an expansion in the number of SCH they want to require for their core curriculum, up to 48 SCH). A completed core curriculum must be transcripted as such, and will transfer and substitute for the approval core curriculum at any public institution of higher education in Texas. Additionally, individual core curriculum courses taken at the sending institution must transfer for an equal number of semester hours in the core curriculum of the receiving institution.

Students planning to major in business, music, or engineering should follow the Field of Study curricula for those majors as approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (see http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/index.cfm?objectid=1515E6CD-DE05-2552-8701C2C5E22FA65A or p. 42-43 of the 2011-11 BC catalog).

Students planning to major in education should follow the curriculum specified in the Associate of Arts in Teaching (AAT) degree (p. 59 of the 2010-11 BC catalog).

Our overwhelming experience over the past several years has been that any courses identified in our catalog as academic courses will transfer without loss of credit towards a baccalaureate degree to any accredited college. Many workforce education courses, e.g. welding, (identified in italics on p. 114-115 of the 2010-11 BC catalog) are not designed for transfer to a baccalaureate and may not.