Monday, October 10, 2011

Online Courses offered at UA. But not for all.

Hoover High School sends out a daily e-newsletter to parents. October 10's edition has the following information:

All students and parents are invited to learn more about online dual enrollment classes through the University of Alabama Early College on Monday, October 10th in the HHS theatre at 6:00 pm. Following their sophomore year HHS students with a 3.0 gpa or above can begin earning dual enrollment high school and college credit. The Director of UA Early College, Dr. Causey and Cindy Bond, HHS College and Career Specialist will be available to answer questions following the presentation.






Academic Opportunity for Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors with a 3.0 grade point average: HHS students can earn dual enrollment high school and college credit through the UA Early College. UA Early College is an on-line learning experience offered through the University of Alabama. Interested students should gather more information by visiting http://uaearlycollege.ua.edu/ or by emailing Mrs. Bond, HHS College and Career Specialist, at cbond@hoover.k12.al.us. Students must take an on-line gateway course before they are allowed to register for academic coursework. The next gateway course begins on 10/11/11. Students need to understand that if they decide to participate in UA Early College, this coursework will be included on both their high school and college transcript. Information about cost of attendance and tuition can also be found on the Early College website. This program could be especially valuable for current sophomores and juniors as they could take courses such as Microcomputer Applications, English 101 and 102, Arabic, or Chinese all of which count as graduation requirements for HHS and are also accepted in the core curriculum required by accredited colleges and universities. Sophomores are able to take the gateway course this coming spring and would then be able to begin taking dual enrollment classes the summer between their sophomore and junior year. For example, a sophomore would register for English 101 and 102 and upon successful completion of this course would have earned 6 hours of college credit as credit for their junior year of high school English.

Unless they don't have access to the internet.  Then the above two paragraphs do not apply.