Dual Credits
The Dual Credit Program is a School-to-College-to-Work Initiative (SCWI) pilot project sponsored by the Partnering to Achieve for Student Success (PASS) Team. The Dual Credit initiative supports high school students, financially and educationally, in attending a college course while still in the process of completing their Ontario Secondary School Diploma.
The Dual Credit program allows senior secondary school students have the opportunity to register in part-time studies at a community college through their high school Guidance department. Upon completion of a college course, students will be granted a college credit and a high school credit which counts towards their diploma requirements.
What are the Benefits?
The benefits of this program are:
- students gain exposure to college programs which will allow them to make more informed decisions regarding their post-secondary destination
- students can earn a college credit and a high school credit.
- tuition, books and transportation costs will be paid by PASS (regional committee) Dual Credit project.
- students will have the opportunity to experience campus life and learn at the college level.
- Students will have an opportunity to link their cooperative education learning experiences to a college level program if they are enrolled in coop.
Who is Eligible?
All grade 11 or 12 students are eligible. Applicants must be flexible, self-reliant, mature and committed. It is preferable that students are enrolled in a cooperative education program.
More Information
For more information about the Dual Credit project contact a Guidance Counsellor in your high school or access the PASS website.
Limestone Programs & Dual Credits
There are a number of dual credit opportunities available to students in the Limestone District School Board but the selection of courses varies each semester. A variety of courses in a number of disciplines such as Early Childhood Education, Graphic Design, Culinary Arts and Business, and a variety of trades are among the possibilities. Contact the Guidance department at your school to see what is being offered this semester. A Limestone District School Board dual credit teacher is at the college to monitor students and assist them in being successful in their courses.
Some of the Dual Credit programs which are available to students during 2011-12 (fall term & winter term) at St. Lawrence College are:
- Integrated Dual Credits - students go to the college once or twice per week and take a college course along with other college students. The Integrated Dual Credit program provides student with 3 experiences in a semester - secondary school, college, and a cooperative education work placement. Senior students (Grade 12 or year 5) have the opportunity to apply to take a college course of their choosing from the list of available courses
at St. Lawrence College.
- Congregated Dual Credits - The Congregated Dual Credit program provides students with an opportunity to take a college course in a college setting with other high school students. The congregated courses offered this year are Developmental Psychology, Addictions and Esthetics.
- Focus Programs/Dual Credits - several of the LDSB Focus Programs integrate Dual Credits into the instructional package of the program. In addition, some dual credit programs have a link to the apprenticeship trades through the OYAP program. Some of these programs include:
- Photography and Culture - in this Limestone DSB Focus/Dual Credit program, students are team taught by a Limestone DSB teacher and St Lawrence College teachers. Students attend St. Lawrence College daily in the first semester, and earn three secondary credits and two college credits.
- Emergency Response Focus Program - In this LDSB Focus/Dual Credit Congregated program, students will be prepared for related programs at the college level, such as Paramedic, Police Foundations and Fitness programs. Students will take an Introduction to Human Biology course and earn the college credit and a related dual credit. Students come to the college 1 day per week.
- Law and Security Focus Program - in this Limestone DSB Focus/Dual Credit program, students attend St. Lawrence College one day per week and participate in the Police Foundations fitness program which is taught by a college instructor. They will earn one credit towards their diploma if they choose to attend any Ontario college as well as the high school credit.
- IMC@SLC (Integrated Marketing Communications) Focus Program - in this Limestone DSB Focus/Dual Credit program, students attend St. Lawrence College daily. Students are team taught by a Limestone DSB teacher and SLC teachers, have the use of all SLC facilities, earn 4 secondary school credits and up to 3 college credits. As one of the four secondary credits, the students have a four week cooperative education experience in the community.
- PREP (Preparing Responsible Employees and Parents) - in this Limestone DSB Focus/Dual Credit program, students will take the Nutrition and Weight Management college credit 1 day per week during Semester 2 at St. Lawrence College and earn an equivalent high school credit.
- LCIP (Limestone Construction Internship Program) - in this Limestone DSB Focus/Dual Credit program, senior students from the LDSB Level 1 General Carpenter train at St. Lawrence College during the first 10 weeks of Semester 2, team-taught by a teacher from LDSB and instructors from SLC followed by co-op/apprenticeship placements.
- Brick and Stone Mason Apprenticeship - the Brick & Stone Mason Level 1 Apprenticeship program is an OYAP partnership between St. Lawrence College, MTCU, Algonquin and Lakeshore, Limestone and Upper Canada, and Hastings Prince Edward DSBs. During the first 10 weeks of the second semester students take the Level 1 Brick & Stone Mason apprenticeship at the college and earn an equivalent 2 dual secondary school credits.
- Industrial Mechanical Millwright Level 1 Apprenticeship Oversight - in this Limestone DSB Focus/Dual Credit program students will have the opportunity to earn 4 secondary credits and the Level 1 Industrial Mechanical Millwright apprenticeship which will be overseen by St. Lawrence College. Students are currently working toward their Phase 1 in a blended OYAP curriculum where they are already familiar with the
training standard. The oversight status could be used as a reach ahead activity for students who are currently working towards their SHSM diploma.
- Cook's Level 1 Apprenticeship - In this LDSB Focus/Dual Credit/OYAP program, students will have the opportunity to earn 8 secondary credits and the Level 1 Cook apprenticeship which will be overseen by St Lawrence College.
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