There are several options for earning College Credit while in High School!
1. Seniors could enroll in Dual Credit English, Dual Credit Biology, Dual Credit Psychology, or Dual Credit Marketing at KCHS.
Dual Credit Biology earns credits towards KCHS Graduation and 4 credit hours of college course work through UNK (Biology 105).
Prerequisite: Students must be in good academic standing (grades and ACT science sub-score will be looked at), have successfully completed Chemistry as a Junior, and be ready for a college level class as demonstrated through work ethic during 11th grade course work.
Dual Credit English earns credits towards KCHS Graduation and 6 credit hours of college course work through Central Community College (English 1010 and American Literature ENGL 2340).
Prerequisite: Student must be in good academic standing (grades and ACT English and Reading sub-scores will be looked at), have successfully completed 11th Grade Honors English, and be ready for a college level class as demonstrated through work ethic during 11th grade course work.
Dual Credit Psychology earns credits towards KCHS Graduation and 3 credit hours of college course work through Central Community College (Psychology 1810).
Prerequisite: Student must be in good academic standing and be ready for a college level class as demonstrated through work ethic in previous coursework. A willingness to read the material (14 chapters will be covered in 18 weeks).
Dual Credit Marketing earns credits towards KCHS Graduation and 3 credit hours of college course work through Central Community College
Prerequisite: Student must be in good academic standing, have successfully completed business courses at KCHS, and be ready for a college level class as demonstrated through work ethic during 11th grade course work.
Dual Credit Trigonometry earns credits towards KCHS Graduation and 3 credit hours of college course work through the University of Nebraska at Kearney, as MATH - 103). This option is available for juniors who "double-up" on math as sophomores. Or seniors to take as a regular fourth year option.
Prerequisite: Students must be in good academic standing (grades and ACT science sub-score will be looked at), and have successfully completed algebra I, & II, and geometry (all three of these classes have an honors class variant that serves as a qualifier and tie-breaker if the classes are at capacity).
Additional Information: Students would register for these options with KCHS during spring registration.
2. Seniors could enroll in Calculus with Analytical Geometry, Applied Calculus, or College Algebra through UNK or CCC during an open period Senior Year.
Prerequisite: Have completed all available Math courses at KCHS (would have doubled up Sophomore Year in Honors Geometry and Honors Algebra II) and meet the required ACT math sub-score requirements set forth by the University they are planning to take the course
Additional Information: Student needs to register for the Math course at the end of their Junior year. All registrations must be completed by May.
3. Seniors could enroll in a College Course that fits into their Senior Schedule. Typically students enroll in online course work and take courses that would cover general studies requirements. Most popular courses to take: Speech or General Psychology. Students taking courses in this manner would be referred to as Early Entry College Students.
4. Juniors or Seniors could enroll in a College Course over the Summer Break at UNK or CCC. Some course ideas include: a Speech course or a 100 level History Course, Psychology or Sociology. Look to taking a General Education Course.
Scholarship Opportunity: SUMMER SCHOLARSHIP for Central Community College Courses-Scholarship typically becomes available in mid-April.
Items to Consider:
We can't guarantee any college course transferring in the future.
The college course grades that students earn now start the student's college GPA.
GRADE POINT AVERAGE (GPA) COMPUTATION (as listed in the UNK 14-15 handbook).
Grade point averages are computed for each term and accumulated for the duration of attendance.
Credit hours accepted in transfer from institutions outside the University of Nebraska, hours resulting from a competency-based assessment, courses taken out of career or taken prior to Fall 2010 as post-graduate hours, and credit hours earned at UNK under the credit/no credit grading system are excluded in grade average computations.
Withdrawals from courses resulting in a "W" and incompletes "I" are disregarded in deriving grade point averages.
All other letter grades are used in computing grade averages.
Grades earned in courses taken at another campus of the University of Nebraska (UNO, UNK, UNL) after July 1, 1991, will be used in calculating the students cumulative University GPA.
The Office of Student Records and Registration must be notified by the student if a course is retaken in order to remove an earlier grade in that course, and to initiate a new computation of the cumulative GPA based on the most recent grade earned for that course.