Dear Parents and Students,

The American United School Course Guide has been designed to provide our students and parents with helpful information regarding the courses offered at AUS. Becoming familiar with the course guide will be extremely important in order to make appropriate course selections for your student as you plan for graduation.

The AUS Guidance and Counseling Department has an understanding of your student’s abilities and interests and will offer suggestions and advice based on those abilities. Although teachers can be valuable resources concerning courses and their recommendations, it is extremely important that your student make individual choices for his/her schedule. These are very important decisions in which students must have input, as schedule changes will be minimal. 

I encourage you to review the courses on the following pages with your student. AUS desires to offer every course described in the course guide; however, staffing, course loads, and student numbers will determine course availability and offerings. Not all courses in the course catalog will run in a given school year.  

After 10 days into the first quarter, the only schedule request changes that will be made are for new students or changes related to accelerated placement. Changes made after the opening of the school year will be made for equalizing teacher’s loads, for administrative purposes, or for correcting errors and in accordance with the Schedule Change Process in the Course Guide. Please make selections carefully.

It is our desire that your student has appropriate opportunities to select courses and make the best possible choices that are offered in AUS’s curriculum. If you have any questions regarding particular courses and/or the course selection process, graduation requirements, or scheduling, please call your student’s grade level counselor.

We look forward to working with you and your student in preparing for a successful upcoming school year.