- Dual Credit & Early College High School Programs
- Dual Credit Courses
Dual Credit Courses
Lone Star College offers high school students the opportunity to earn college credit through our Academic and Workforce Dual Credit programs. These courses allow students to get a head start on their college education while fulfilling high school requirements. Whether you plan to transfer to a four-year university or enter the workforce with valuable career skills, our dual credit options provide flexible pathways to help you achieve your goals sooner.
Academic Dual Credit courses are designed primarily to apply to transfer, Associate of Arts (AA), or Associate of Science (AS) degrees. Core curriculum and foreign language courses are academic. Academic courses are those typically required of students who intend to transfer from LSC and pursue a traditional baccalaureate degree at a four-year institution. Some of the more popular academic courses are American history, English composition, American government, economics, psychology, and sociology. All of these courses satisfy core curriculum requirements at LSC and will transfer to any public college or university in the state of Texas as core curriculum. College algebra, art appreciation, speech, introductory biology, and introductory chemistry may also be taught as dual credit and transfer as core curriculum hours. Science lab courses can only be taught as dual credit when the high school lab meets the requirements of the college curriculum.
Workforce Dual Credit is designed to allow high school students to enroll in LSC credit workforce programs and receive high school credit for career and technical classes while also working towards obtaining an Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree. Students who participate in these classes/programs will graduate high school with career skills and in many cases, a certification approving them for employment in their industry; and some of them will also transfer toward four-year degrees. Please check with your local college campus to see whether or not you can take advantage of this opportunity.
Academic Courses
In accordance with Texas Education Code, §§61.821 - 61.832, each institution of higher education that offers an undergraduate academic degree program shall design and implement a core curriculum, including specific courses composing the curriculum, of no less than 42 lower-division semester credit hours. If a student successfully completes the 42 semester credit hour core curriculum at a Texas public institution of higher education, that block of courses must be substituted in transfer to any other Texas public institution of higher education for the receiving institution's core curriculum. A student shall receive academic credit for each of the courses transferred and may not be required to take additional core curriculum courses at the receiving institution (TAC Title 19 Part I Chapter §4.28). "Core curriculum" means the curriculum in liberal arts, humanities, and sciences and political, social, and cultural history that all undergraduate students of an institution of higher education are required to complete before receiving an academic undergraduate degree (TEC SUBCHAPTER S. TRANSFER OF CREDIT §61.821).