Students in the Stratford Public Schools often have options to apply for dual enrollment with our partner colleges. Students who apply are starting college transcripts and need to be ready for this responsibility. If a student attends a college other than the one through which the dual enrollment credits are offered, the student will need to request that an official transcript be sent to their university. Each college and university and each academic program establishes its own policies for accepting transfer credit. 

COLLEGE CAREER PATHWAYS  -  College Credit Programs  (CCP)

The College Career Pathways Program is designed to provide high school students with an enhanced program in Career and Technology Education. Most CCP courses in Stratford are aligned with Housatonic Community College. The program enables high school students to earn credits in a technical field.  These credits can be used at all Connecticut two-year colleges and may be used at  four-year colleges. Students should check with the four-year college to determine if the credits will count. Students must complete the application process by the deadlines set by Housatonic or any additional CCP partner.

Students may have the opportunity to earn college credit in the following courses:  

• Accounting 1

• Intro to Early Childhood Education 1-2 Combined

• Allied Health (Multi-Course Sequence)

Courses are available free of charge.

Lincoln Technical Institute   

Dual enrollment credit may be offered through these courses.            

Exploring Culinary Arts 1 & 2             

Bakeshop 1 & 2         

SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY DUAL-ENROLLMENT

Sacred Heart University has partnered with Stratford to offer juniors and seniors the opportunity to earn college credit while enrolled in classes in the Stratford Public Schools. Students apply to enroll in courses and start their Sacred Heart transcript. Students must complete the application process by the deadlines set by Sacred Heart.

Students may have the opportunity to earn college credit in the following course:  

• African American/Black and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies

There is a fee and aid may be available to students who need it. 

SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY (SCSU) EARLY COLLEGE

Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) has partnered with Stratford to offer juniors and seniors the opportunity to earn college credit while enrolled in classes in the Stratford Public Schools. Students apply to enroll in challenging courses and start their SCSU transcript. Stratford teachers are certified as adjunct faculty at SCSU. Students must complete the application process by the deadlines set by SCSU.

Students may have the opportunity to earn college credit in the following courses:  

• AP Language and Composition--up to six credits: 3 credits in Communications and 3 credits in Women and Gender Studies

• AP Statistics

• College Algebra 2

• Pre-calculus

• Forensic Science

• Digital Text and Tools for Learning

• Teachers, Schools and Society

There is a fee and aid may be available to students who need it.

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT (UCONN) EARLY COLLEGE EXPERIENCE

UCONN Early College Experience (ECE) provides academically motivated students with the opportunity to take university courses while in high school. These challenging courses allow students to preview college work, build confidence in their readiness for college, and earn college credits that provide both an academic and a financial head-start on a college degree and other postsecondary opportunities. UConn ECE instructors are high school teachers at Stratford High and Bunnell High who are certified as adjunct professors by UCONN. To support rigorous learning, UCONN academic resources (including library and online classroom access) are available to all UCONN ECE students. The University of Connecticut sets the prerequisites and course requirements for these courses. Students must complete the application process by the deadlines set by UCONN.

There is a fee and aid may be available to students who need it.

Students may have the opportunity to earn college credit in the following courses. The name of the Stratford course as listed in Stratford’s Program of Studies is in parentheses. 

• AH 1100: Introduction to Allied Health Professions (Allied Health Exploration) One credit. Offered Fall or Spring. Overview of health professions, team approach to health care delivery. Eligibility Guidelines: Instructor consent is required. 

• AH 2001: Medical Terminology (Medical Terminology) Two credits. Offered Fall, Spring, or Full-year. Introduction and mastery of medical terminology through presentation of word roots, prefixes and suffixes. Disease processes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments that affect various body systems. Terminology associated with disease processes, symptoms, diagnosis, clinical procedures, laboratory tests, and treatments that affect various body systems. Eligibility Guidelines: Student must have successfully completed or be enrolled concurrently in high school biology. Instructor consent is required.

• BIOL 1107: Principles of Biology I (AP Biology UCONN/ECE BIOL 1107/BIOL 1108) Four credits. Offered Fall, Spring, or Full-year. May be taken in either order. Designed to provide a foundation for more advanced courses in Biology and related sciences. Topics covered include molecular and cell biology, animal anatomy and physiology. Lab exercises include dissection of preserved animals. Eligibility Guidelines: Student must have studied/been exposed to the fundamental basic principles of inorganic and organic chemistry in a course that in addition contains a laboratory component. 

• BIOL 1108: Principles of Biology II (AP Biology UCONN/ECE BIOL 1107/BIOL 1108) Four credits. Offered Fall, Spring, or Full-year. May be taken in either order. Designed to provide a foundation for more advanced courses in Biology and related sciences. Topics covered include evolution and population genetics, plant physiology and diversity, animal diversity and behavior, and ecology. Eligibility Guidelines: Student must have studied/been exposed to the fundamental basic principles of inorganic and organic chemistry in a course that in addition contains a laboratory component. 

• CAMS 3102: Topics in Advanced Latin (AP Latin) Four credits. Offered Fall, Spring, or Full-year

With a change in content, may be repeated for credit. Reading of Latin texts in the original. Eligibility Guidelines: Successful completion of three or more years of high school Latin (Latin 1-3 at 

the high school level) or the equivalent is required. 

• CHEM 1127Q: General Chemistry I  (AP Chemistry UCONN/ECE CHEM 1127Q/CHEM 1128Q) Four credits. Offered Fall only Designed to provide a foundation for more advanced courses in chemistry. Atomic theory, laws and theories concerning the physical and chemical behavior of gasses, liquids, solids, and solutions. Quantitative measurements illustrating the laws of chemical combination in the laboratory component. Eligibility Guidelines: Successful completion of basic algebra is recommended. A student must pass CHEM 1127Q with a grade of a “C” or higher to continue on to CHEM 1128Q. 

• CHEM 1128Q: General Chemistry II (AP Chemistry UCONN/ECE CHEM 1127Q/CHEM 1128Q) Four credits. Offered Spring only. Equilibrium, thermodynamics, nuclear chemistry, and kinetics. Properties of some of the more familiar elements and their compounds. Equilibrium in solutions and reactions of the common cations and anions in the laboratory component. Eligibility Guidelines: Successful completion of basic algebra is recommended. A student must pass CHEM 1127Q with a grade of a “C” or higher to continue on to CHEM 1128Q. 

• EDCI 1100: If You Love It, Teach It (If You Love It, Teach It) Three credits. Offered Fall, Spring, or Full-year. Studies of K-12 teaching, learning, and schooling in the United States; historical, philosophical, and social foundations of education as well as self-study to reimagine educational futures. Eligibility Guidelines: Successful completion of three years of high school English is recommended. 

• ENGL 1007: Seminar and Studio in Academic Writing and Multimodal Composition Four credits. Offered Full-Year; College composition through multiple forms of literacy, including rhetorical, digital, and information literacies necessary for twenty-first-century contexts. The development of creatively intellectual inquiries through sustained engagement with texts, ideas, and problems. Emphasis on transfer of writing and rhetorical skills to academic and daily life. Students design a digital portfolio that curates creations and skills-based micro-credentials they earn in coursework. Eligibility Guidelines: Successful completion of three years of high school English is required. 

• HDFS 1070: Individual & Family Development (Introduction to Individual and Family Development) Three credits. Offered Fall, Spring or Full-year. Human development throughout the lifespan, with emphasis upon the family as a primary context. Eligibility Guidelines: Successful completion of two years of English/Language Arts, one year of social studies, and one year of science, or instructor consent, is required.

• HIST 1501: United States History to 1877 (AP/UCONN-ECE United States History) Three credits. Offered Fall, Spring, or Full-year. Surveys political, economic, social, and cultural developments in American history through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Eligibility Guidelines: Successful completion of at least one year of a high school history course recommended. 

• HIST 1502: United States History Since 1877  (AP/UCONN-ECE United States History) Three credits. Offered Fall, Spring, or Full-year. Surveys political, economic, social, and cultural developments in American history from 1877 to the present. Eligibility Guidelines: Successful completion of at least one year of a high school history course recommended. 

• MAST 1200: Introduction to Maritime Culture: three credits. Offered Fall and/or Spring. Introduction to Maritime Culture considers the history of maritime exploration, the history of whaling, the psychology of the shipwrecked and the culture of life and work at sea. Interdisciplinary assignments of both history and literature combine to develop understanding of the maritime world.

• MATH 1030: Three credits. Offered Fall or Spring. Topics chosen from discrete mathematics. May include counting and probability, sequences, graph theory, deductive reasoning, the axiomatic method and finite geometries, number systems, voting methods, apportionment methods, mathematics of finance, number theory.

• MATH 1131Q: Calculus I (AP Calculus AB or AP Calculus BC) Four credits. Offered Fall only. Limits, continuity, differentiation, antidifferentiation, definite integral, with applications to the physical sciences and engineering sciences. Suitable for students with some prior calculus experience. Substitutes for MATH 1151 as a requirement. Eligibility Guidelines: Successful completion of one year of pre-calculus is required. A student must pass MATH 1131Q with a grade of a "C" or higher to continue on to MATH 1132Q. To receive credit for the MATH 1131Q – MATH 1132Q sequence a student must pass MATH 1131Q in the Fall with a C or higher and continue to MATH 1132Q in the following Spring. The sequence must be completed in one academic year. Students cannot receive credit for MATH 1131 and MATH 1151

• MATH 1132Q: Calculus II (AP Calculus BC) Four credits. Offered Spring only. Transcendental functions, formal integration, polar coordinates, infinite sequences and series, vector algebra and geometry, with applications to the physical sciences and engineering. Substitutes for MATH 1122 as a requirement. Eligibility Guidelines: Successful completion of one year of pre-calculus is required. A student must pass MATH 1131Q with a grade of a “C” or higher to continue on to MATH 1132Q. To receive credit for the MATH 1131Q – MATH 1132Q sequence a student must pass MATH 1131Q in the Fall with a C or higher and continue to MATH 1132Q in the following Spring. The sequence must be completed in one academic year. Prerequisite: MATH 1131Q in the immediately preceding semester. 

• MUSI 1011: Fundamentals/Ear Training I (AP Music Theory/AP Music Theory ECE) Three credits. Offered Fall, Spring, or Full-year. Basic skills in note reading, rhythm, meter, pitch symbols, scales, key-signatures, intervals, triads, sight-singing, and dictation. No previous training is required. Eligibility Guidelines: Completion of at least one year of preparatory work in music courses at the high school level is recommended.

• MUSI 1012: Fundamentals/Ear Training II (AP Music Theory/AP Music Theory ECE) Three credits. Offered Fall, Spring, or Full-year. Further development of skills in music reading, sight-singing, and dictation. Eligibility Guidelines: A student must pass MUSI 1011 with a grade of a “C” or higher to continue on to MUSI 1012.

• PHYS 1201Q: General Physics I (Advanced Placement Physics 1/UCONN PHYS 1201Q) Four credits. Offered Fall, Spring, or Full-year A non-calculus based course introducing the laws of force and motion applied to mechanical phenomena. Concepts such as work, mechanical energy, linear and angular momentum, and energy conservation are explained. The laboratory offers fundamental training in precise measurements. Eligibility Guidelines: Successful completion of high school chemistry is recommended.

• PHYS 1202Q: General Physics II (Advanced Placement Physics 2/UCONN PHYS 1202Q) Four credits. Offered Fall, Spring, or Full-year. A non-calculus based course introducing the principles governing electromagnetic phenomena, including electromagnetic radiation and waves and electric circuits. The laboratory offers fundamental training in precise measurements. Eligibility Guidelines: Successful completion of pre-calculus or introductory calculus is recommended. A student must pass PHYS 1201Q with a grade of a “C” or higher to continue on to PHYS 1202Q.

• PHYS 1401Q: General Physics with Calculus I (Advanced Placement Physics C/UCONN PHYS 1401Q) Four credits. Offered Fall, Spring, or Full-year. Quantitative study of the basic facts and principles of physics with an emphasis on mechanical phenomena. Concepts such as work, mechanical energy, linear and angular momentum, and energy conservation are explained. The laboratory offers fundamental training in physical measurements. Recommended for non-engineering students who desire to have a calculus-based physics sequence. It is also recommended for science majors whom a one year introductory physics course is adequate. Eligibility Guidelines: Successful completion of pre-calculus or introductory calculus is recommended. Students who matriculate to UConn may take PHYS 1401Q for not more than two credits, with the permission of the instructor, if students received credits for PHYS 1201Q.

• SPAN 3178: Intermediate Spanish Composition (Spanish 5 Advanced Placement/Spanish Early College Experience) Three credits. Offered Fall, Spring, or Full-year. This course provides a thorough review of grammar and methodical practice in composition leading to command of practical idioms and vocabulary. Eligibility Guidelines: Successful completion of three or more years of high school Spanish or instructor consent is recommended.

• SPAN 3179: Spanish Conversation: Cultural Topics (Spanish 5 Advanced Placement/Spanish Early College Experience) Three credits. Offered Fall, Spring, or Full-year. Recommended preparation: SPAN 3178. In-depth development of speaking skills through cultural readings, group discussions and oral presentations on selected topics concerning the Spanish-speaking world. Eligibility Guidelines: Successful completion of three or more years of high school Spanish, successful completion of SPAN 3178, or instructor consent is recommended.

• STAT 1100Q: Elementary Concepts of Statistics (AP Statistics) Four credits. Offered Fall, Spring, or Full-year. Standard and nonparametric approaches to statistical analysis; exploratory data analysis, elementary probability, sampling distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing, one- and two-sample procedures, regression and correlation. Learning to do statistical analysis on a personal computer is an integral part of the course. Eligibility Guidelines: Successful completion of Intermediate Algebra/Algebra II is required

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN COLLEGE CREDIT

Students who are enrolled in the following Pre-Engineering, Project Lead The Way (PLTW) courses are eligible to apply for the “Exemplary Student Recognition Program” through the University of New Haven (UNH).  They can receive a college credit transcript if they meet all program requirements.   

 Students must complete the application process by the deadlines set by UNH.

Students may have the opportunity to earn college credit in the following courses:  

University of New Haven PLTW Course Equivalents

• Introduction to Engineering Design = UNH course ME201 (2 semester credits)

• Principles of Engineering = UNH course EE155 (3 semester credits)

• Digital Electronics = UNH course EAS207 (3 semester credits)

• Engineering Design & Development = UNH course EAS109 (2 semester credits)

There is a fee and aid may be available to students who need it.