As an underclassmen you have a more traditional structure with your schedule.  Courses are yearlong and work consecutively.  

As an upperclassman, you will have more options and opportunities.   With this flexibility, you need to consider your options in order to select courses that will be the most beneficial.

Questions to think about as you begin to schedule:

1. Are you interested in participating in senior experience and or dual credit courses?

   • Are you scheduled to take the Accuplacer? Or, do you meet the enrollment requirements for the dual credit courses?

   • If you are thinking about taking senior experience, are you considering saving the dual credit classes that have senior experience opportunities?

     • • Have you planned on completing the prerequisite – ENGL 111 – to take additional dual credit opportunity classes?

   • Have you checked the Core Transfer Library?

     • • Public universities are required to accept credits for the courses on the Core Transfer Library.

2. Are you thinking about going to a two-year or a four-year college?

   • College-bound students need to think about the benefits of taking composition-focused courses and literature-focused courses - especially their senior year.

     • • Entering college with a gap in concentrated writing and reading instruction may prove difficult. 

3. Do you know which courses are offered each semester?  Have you discussed this with your counselor or teacher?

• • • Certain courses only run in the fall or only run in the spring.  Be sure to know which courses are scheduled this way to guarantee an effective schedule.

      • • Example: 

          • • Advanced Composition/ENGL 111 is only offered the fall semester.

            • Expository Writing/ENGL 112 is only offered the spring semester.